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MUMBAI:
Fun Cinemas is hosting the fifth edition of the French Film
Festival in association with Alliance Francoise from 3-9 August.
The movies to be screened at 8 pm throughout the week will
have subtitles in English.
Fun
Cinemas senior VP marketing Shirish Handa said, "There
has been an increasing patronage for French cinema in India
over the last few years. This year's Fun cinemas French film
festival promises to be an interesting mix of critically acclaimed
and commercially successful French cinema that mirrors the
French culture of today."
French
Embassy head French films Mohamed Bendjebbour said, "Through
this platform we are able to give the young urban multiplex
audience the opportunity to discover a new genre of cinema
and more importantly access to world cinema, in particular
French. We hope in the long-term that French cinema will create
its own niche among this young audience. We at the French
embassy feel that Indian audiences deserve a wider choice
of cinema."
This
year's festival includes Le Couperet (The Axe), which
won the Film and Literature award at the Sea International
Film Festival 2006 and was nominated for Cesar Award for best
actor and best screenplay. In March this year, it also won
the Maharashtra government Prabhat International Award and
Poonawalla International best actor male award at the Pune
international film festival. The story revolves around a business
executive, who is fired by his company after it undergoes
restructuring and is ready to do anything to get his job back
- even if it means killing of his rivals.
Another
film at the festival this year - Je Ne Suis Pas La Pour
Etre Aime (Not here to be Loved) - is about a 51-year
old divorcee full of resigned disappointment who unexpectedly
falls in love. It won the CEC best film award at the San Sebastian
International film festival and was nominated for the Cesar
Award as well as the European Film Awards.
Cannes
film festival 2005 SACD screen-writing award winner, Petite
Jerusalem (Little Jerusalem), is the story of an 18-year
young girl torn between her religious education and upbringing,
versus her philosophical studies, for which she has a fierce
passion and which offer her another vision of the world. The
film also won the French Syndicate of cinema critics award
in the best film category.
Other
films at the festival include Les Mauvais Joueurs (The
Gamblers) which notched awards at the Berlin International
Film festival; Le Petit Lieutenant (The Little Lieutenant)
- winner at the Venice film festival, Etoiles d'Or award and
Cesar Awards; Bled Number One which won the Cannes
film festival - Award of the Youth and was nominated for the
best film at the Mar del Plata film festival this year; and
Changement D'adresse which was nominated for the Grand
Prix at the Tokyo international film festival.
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