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Where: EGV Metropolis
Ticket Pass: 270 Baht (3 Films)
Movieline: 02-515-5555
About the Fims Showtimes | Bangkok French Film Festival | ||||
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| Now that French cinema is successfully welcomed by Thai people with an increasing number of French films being shown on Thai screens, this year’s objective is to promote the variety and richness of current French cinema for a better understanding and deeper view of French society. Twelve recent films never screened in Thailand, released between 2004 and 2006, will be screened at the festival. All sorts of films will be presented - comedies, thrillers, drama - so that the Bangkok audience gets the largest possible overview of contemporary French cinema. |
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In His Hands The Story: Lille, at Christmas time. Thirty-year-old Claire Gautier works as an assurance assessor. She leads a peaceful life with her husband Fabrice and their little daughter, Pauline…
Then Claire meets Laurent Kessler, a veterinarian who comes to see her about water damage in his apartment. So begins a story of love and terror. Laurent is a seducer, or rather, an obsessive woman chaser. But, with Claire things are different. No doubt because the young woman senses a dark side to his personality that he tries to keep hidden.
Women have been murdered by a man who is spreading terror through the city. Claire can’t stop herself from making a connection between Laurent and the killer. And yet, as her suspicions become even clearer, she becomes more and more attached to him. Will she be able to escape from this spiral of fear and fascination? |
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| Directed by: Olivier Marchal France / 2004 / Thriller / 1hour 50mins - Showtimes Here Cast: Daniel Auteuil, Gérard Depardieu, André Dussollier César 2005: Nominated for best film, best director, best actor |
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| The Story: For several months, an unusually violent criminal gang has been operating in Paris with complete impunity. Federal police boss, Robert Mancini, has made it clear to his two captains, Leo Vrinks and Denis Klein, both chiefs of rival organized crime squads, that whoever brings down the gang is direct in line to replace him as top brass at Paris's police headquarters, 36, quai des Orfèvres. It's open season between the two top cops who were once friends, but whom now everything separates: their lives, their approach to the job, their squads, and a woman, Camille Vrinks. | ||||
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Never Say Never | |||
| Directed by: Eric Civanyan France / 2005 / Comedy / 1hour 35mins - Showtimes Here Cast: Gérard Jugnot, Jean Dujardin, Mélanie Doutey, Marie-France Santon César 2005 : Nominated for the most promising actress |
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| The Story: Paris 1830. Valentin fritters away his life, drinking, gambling and chasing women. He doesn't believe in life, and certainly not in love. His uncle Van Buck only believes in the virtues of money and business. They have nothing in common until the day that Van Buck, to improve his image, wants to make Valentin marry a young, penniless baroness. Valentin, who has absolutely no desire to get married, bets that he can easily seduce the baroness in 24 hours, thereby proving that she, like all women, doesn't merit being loved. But Cecile, who believes in true love, turns out to be much tougher to dazzle than expected. Valentin is forced to employ all sorts of strategies if he's to win his bet. The game of cat and mouse begins. But who is the cat? Never say never. | ||||
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The Black Box | |||
| Directed by: Richard Berry France / 2005 / Thriller / 1hour 30mins - Showtimes Here Cast: José Garcia, Marion Cotillard, Michel Duchaussoy César 2005 : Nominated for the most promising actress |
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| The Story: Arthur is left in a coma for several hours after a car accident. While coming to, he raves incoherently, giving free reign to things directly rooted in his unconscious. When conscious again, he's confronted by a curious dilemma: what was he doing that night on the road near Cherbourg? Isabelle, one of the nurses at the hospital, noted Arthur's troubling, disturbing and liberating ramblings in a black notebook. To help him answer his questions, she gives Arthur the notebook, as though offering him a treasure, the written testimony of his delirium. From that moment on an incredible adventure begins for Arthur; he'll be the victim, the guilty party and the investigator. of his own life. Invaded by the traumas of our unconscious, should we nevertheless stamp out the memories that clutter up our minds? | ||||
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The Ax | |||
| Directed by: Costa-Gavras France / 2005 / Thriller / 2hour 2mins - Showtimes Here Cast: José Garcia, Karin Viard, Ulrich Tukur César 2005 : Nominated for best actor and best adaptation |
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A business executive, who was fired by his company after it underwent restructuring, is ready to do anything to get his job back - even if it means killing his rivals. |
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Empire of the Wolves | |||
| Directed by: Chris Nahon France / 2005 / Thriller / 2hour 8mins - Showtimes Here Cast: Jean Reno, Jocelyn Quivrin, Arly Jover, Laura Morante |
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| The Story: Anna Heymes, in her early thirties, is the wife of one of the most important civil servants in the Ministry of the Interior. For more than a month, she's been suffering from terrifying hallucinations and continual amnesia attacks, to the point that she no longer recognizes her own husband's face and is even beginning to doubt his honesty. Meanwhile, in Paris's 10th arrondissement, Paul Nerteaux, a tough, dedicated police captain, heads the investigation into the death of three Turkish women who worked in the neighborhood's sweatshops. All three were atrociously mutilated. In order to infiltrate the neighborhood's Turkish population, Nerteaux has no other solution than to call in Jean-Louis Schiffer, one of his former colleagues notorious for using harsh tactics. | ||||
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Tiger Brigades | |||
| Directed by: Jérôme Cornuau France / 2006 / Fiction / 2hour 5mins - Showtimes Here Cast: Clovis Cornillac, Diane Kruger, Edouard Bear, Olivier Gourmet (Thai Subtitles) |
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| The Story: 1907. An unprecedented crime wave steeps the Belle Epoque in blood. Confronted by these bandits of the new century, the Minister of the Interior, Georges Clémenceau (The Tiger), creates a police force to match them: the Flying Squad. 1912. All of France knows this squad by another name: The Tiger Brigade. | ||||
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Love is in the Air | |||
| Directed by: Rémi Bezançon France / 2005 / Comedy / 1hour 43mins - Showtimes Here Cast: Vincent Elbaz, Marion Cotillard, Gilles Lellouche César 2005 : Nominated for best most promising actor. |
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| The Story: An instructor for an airline company, Yann Kerbec uses flight simulators to evaluate pilots' abilities to handle extreme conditions. But Yann has a small problem: he's afraid of flying, a debilitating panic linked to his birth and which, in his youth, stopped him from following the woman of his dreams to the end of the world. Today Yann is thirty years old. With nostalgia and humor, he reflects upon his trauma and delivers a scathing stocktaking of his love affairs that turned to custard because of his phobia. What, with his crusade to increase airline security and trying to manage his disastrous love life, Yann has reached a crossroads: he must overcome his demons and accept to grow up. | ||||
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My Angel | |||
| Directed by: Serge Frydman France-Belgium-Netherlands / 2005 / Comedy - Showtimes Here Cast: Vanessa Paradis, Vincent Rottiers, Eduardo Noriega |
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| The Story: A woman in love is almost as dangerous as a speeding bullet: nothing can stop her. But an obstacle may present itself that causes her to veer from her path, such as a telephone that rings in the middle of the night at an hour when we receive only two kinds of calls: wrong number or bad news. How much rarer is it that they're both one and the same. A stranger's voice echoes through the receiver that Colette has just picked up, a cry for help asking Colette to go and get the stranger's son and bring him to her. That was the wrong number. The bad news is that the little boy, named Billy, who Colette finds herself having to pick up, is in fact a teenager at the ghastly stage of life when he is both demanding of attention and driven by an unpredictable and vague desire for the future. A future that becomes even more uncertain when Billy is left an orphan and Colette no longer knows how to get rid of this obstacle blocking the path that leads directly to love and to the beating of the heart that makes eyes sparkle. The kind of path that is sometimes dangerous and therefore safer to follow together. | ||||
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Daddy | |||
| Directed by: Maurice Barthélémy France / 2005 / Comedy / 1hour 20mins - Showtimes Here Cast: Alain Chabat, Yaël Abecassis, Martin Combes |
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| The Story: Louis is a funny kind of dad: he's always cheerful, joking, full of laughs. However, Louis has no great desire to laugh. On the road leading home, father and son will reconnect. Light and life await them at the end of their journey. | ||||
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Paint or Make Love | |||
| Directed by: Arnaud Larrieu, Jean-Marie Larrieu France / 2005 / Fiction / 1hour 38mins - Showtimes Here Cast: Daniel Auteuil, Sabine Azema, Sergi Lopez, Amira Casar Cannes International Film Festival 2005 : Official Competition |
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| The Story:William et Madeleine habitent en ville au pied des montagnes. Mariés depuis longtemps, fidèles et amoureux, ils ont une vie rangée. Leur fille unique partant vivre en Italie, ils n'ont plus qu'à s'occuper d'eux-mêmes. Au cours d'une de ses promenades sur les collines environnantes, Madeleine installe son chevalet devant une vieille maison et rencontre Adam, un homme fin, cultivé et aveugle. Il lui fait visiter la maison qu'elle est en train de peindre : elle est à vendre. C'est le coup de foudre, William et Madeleine l'achètent. Les semaines qui suivent l'achat, William et Madeleine vivent une période de grand bonheur. Leur nouvelle vie s'organise dans la proximité d'Adam et de sa jeune compagne Eva qui habitent à quelques centaines de mètres. Le jour où la maison de leurs nouveaux amis brûle, William et Madeleine n'ont plus d'autre désir que de les héberger... | ||||
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A Ticket to Outer Space | |||
| Directed by: Eric Lartigau France / 2006 / Comedy / 1hour 30mins - Showtimes Here Cast: Guillaume Canet, André Dussollier, Marina Foïs, Kad Merad |
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| The Story:The French population can't understand why so much money is invested in space research. The government therefore launches an enormous publicity campaign. A huge game is organized in partnership with the French Space Center. "Ticket for Space," a scratch-and-win game, allows two people to take a trip in a European orbiting space station in the company of a professional crew. The campaign is a huge success. Everything goes well, until one of the two winners takes the station hostage. |
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