Bangkok French Film Festival
10 New French Films (English Subtitles)
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When: June 14th - 24th
Where: SF World Cinema, Central World Plaza
Tickets: 100 Baht
(5 tickets for 400 baht - only 200 packages available)
Booking: SFCinemaCity.com (or at the door)
Movieline: 02-268-8888
Now that French cinema is successfully welcomed in Thailand with an increasing number of French films shown on Thai screens, the objective of the Bangkok French Film Festival is to promote the variety and the richness of French contemporary cinema, its analysis of French society and its entertaining qualities. Enjoy the show!
Info: 2008 / Drama / 1h 58min
Link: Official Website
Saturday, June 14th - 6:30pm
Screened with English and Thai subtitles.
Louise, a member of the French Resistance, flees to London after her husband is murdered. She is recruited by the Special Operations Executive (SOE), a secret spy and sabotage service initiated by Churchill. She is given an urgent first mission: the exfiltration of a British agent who has fallen into German hands while preparing the Normandy landings. The agent has not yet revealed anything but time is pressing. Louise must first create a commando of women especially chosen for the needs of the operation. This is the story of five women who didn't set out to be heroines, but who'll become them.
Info: 2007 / Drama / 1h 25min
Link: Official Website
Friday, June 20th - 8:00pm
Tuesday, June 24th - 8:00pm
Summer in a new suburb outside Paris. Nothing to do but look at the ceiling. Marie, Anne and Floriane are 15. Their paths cross in the corridors at the local swimming pool, where love and desire make a sudden appearance.
Cast: Adèle Haenel, Pauline Acquart, Louise Blachère, and Warren Jacquin.
Awards: Cannes Film Festival « Un Certain Regard », Rotterdam Film Festival 2008, Nominated for the César 2008 : Best First Film and Most Promising Actress
Info: 2007 / Drama / 1h 40min
Saturday, June 21st - 4:20pm (In the presence of the Director)
Sunday, June 22nd - 6:30pm (In the presence of the Director)
Camille’s life is shattered by the sudden death of her son. Unable to come to terms with it, she becomes attached to Franck, her son’s best friend, who was also responsible for the tragedy…
Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Thomas Dumerchez, Guy Marchand and Élodie Bouchez
Awards: Cannes Film Festival « Directors’fortnight » 2007, Pusan Film Festival 2007
Info: 2007 / Drama / 1h 52min
Link: Official Website
Wednesday, June 18th - 8:00pm
Sunday, June 22nd - 4:15pm
On December 8th, 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby, a journalist and father of two children, suffered a stroke which plunged him into a deep coma. When he regained conciousness, all his motor body functions had deteriorated. He’d been struck by what is known in the medical profession as "locked-in syndrome": he could no longer move, speak nor even breathe without medical assistance. The only part of his inert body capable of moving was his left eye. This eye became his link with the world, with others, with life. He’d blink once to say "yes," twice to say "no." With his single eye, he’d focus visitors’ attention on letters of the alphabet dictated to him and form words, sentences, entire pages. With his eye, he wrote this book The Bell Jar and the Butterfly, for which, each morning during long weeks, he’d memorized sentences before dictating them.
Cast: Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Anne Consigny, Marina Hands, Emma de Caunes, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Marie-Josée Croze, Jean-Philippe Ecoffey, Niels Arestrup and Patrick Chesnais
Awards: Pusan International Film Festival 2007, Cannes 2007 Official Competition, Golden Globes 2008 : Best Foreign Language Film, Best Director, César 2008 Best Achievement in editing and Best Actor
Info: 2007 / Comedy / 1h 40min
Sunday, June 15th - 4:15pm
Tuesday, June 17th - 8:00pm
In the Bellinsky family: there's Salomon, the father, brimming with life but whom the world would like to bury all too quickly; Geneviève, the mother, who gradually lets herself slip into sheer madness; and Sarah, their daughter, caught between her separated parents, who patiently tries to build her life with her fiancé, François.
Cast: Jean Pierre Marielle, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Sabine Azéma, Bulle Ogier and Bakary Sangaré
Awards: Nominated for the César 2008 : Nominated for Best Actor, Best Actress in a supporting role, Best Music written for a film
Info: 2007 / Comedy / 1h 47min
Sunday, June 15th - 2:00pm
Saturday, June 21st - 6:30pm
Marcelline is an actress. Forty, single and childless, she begins rehearsals for Turgenev’s A Month in the Country. Denis, the director, admires her greatly and promises he'll make her happy on stage – she will shine. But things don't go to plan. Denis introduces Marcelline to his assistant, Nathalie. The two women were at drama school together twenty years earlier. Nathalie tells her she had to give up acting: she has a husband and children. Marcelline and Nathalie look at each other as if in a mirror, each seeing in the other the life she doesn't have, the dreams she cannot bear to abandon. Their meeting is the first in a series of tremors that will turn Marcelline's life upside down.
Cast: Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Noémie Lvovsky, Mathieu Amalric, Louis Garrel and Valeria Golino
Awards: Special Jury Prize Festival de Cannes 2007, Pusan International Film Festival 2007, Nominated for the César 2008: Best Actress in a supporting role, World Film Festival Montréal 2007
Info: 2008 / Thriller / 1h 43min
Sunday, June 22nd - 2:00pm
Monday, June 23rd - 8:00pm
Lyon, the late 1970s. Police inspector François learns that his brother, Gabriel, has been released from prison after serving ten years for murder. There’s no happy reunion for the cop and his older brother, but they share a desire to draw a line under the past. Gabriel tries to settle down and François bends over backwards to help him. But real life and the demons of the past catch up with them. For these two brothers divided by the lives they’ve chosen but bonded by blood, the paths they follow strangely seem to lead them to the same impasse.
Cast: Guillaume Canet, François Cluzet, Clotilde Hesme and Marie Denarnaud
Info: 2008 / Drama / 1h 44min
Link: Official Website
Info: 2007 / Comedy / 1h 33min
Saturday, June 14th - 2:00pm
Monday, June 16th - 8:00pm
Forty-three-year-old Lucas, a rich, divorced industrialist, is irresistibly attracted to thirty-eight-year-old Elsa, a renowned ceramist whom he’s commissioned to create a fresco for his office foyer. But, still smarting from a recent disappointment in love, he asks Roland Christin, a private detective from his company, to discover the reasons why this lovely woman is still single. Without the slightest scruple, Roland puts the most modern of surveillance methods into operation.
Cast: Vincent Lindon, François Berléand, Sandrine Bonnaire, Kad Merad, Liane Foly, Guilaine Londez and Albert Dray
Awards: Montréal World Film Festival 2007
Info: 2008 / Drama & Adventure / 1h 50min
Link: Official Website
Sunday, June 15th - 6:30pm
Saturday, June 21st - 2:00pm
At the end of First World War, 20 year-old Angèle is determined to become the first woman veterinarian. Her life is an adventurous one and she becomes the object of ruthless rivalry between the man she is supposed to marry, a visionary but unscrupulous industrialist and a simple man who has withdrawn to the mountains to live among wolves, away from the madness of humans. Angèle exploits this rivalry to attain her real goal: saving the wolves.
Cast: Laetitia Casta, Jean-Paul Rouve, Stefano Accorsi, Michel Galabru, Patrick Chesnais and Lorant Deutsch
FEMALE AGENTS
Directed by: Jean-Paul SaloméInfo: 2008 / Drama / 1h 58min
Link: Official Website
Saturday, June 14th - 6:30pm
Screened with English and Thai subtitles.
Louise, a member of the French Resistance, flees to London after her husband is murdered. She is recruited by the Special Operations Executive (SOE), a secret spy and sabotage service initiated by Churchill. She is given an urgent first mission: the exfiltration of a British agent who has fallen into German hands while preparing the Normandy landings. The agent has not yet revealed anything but time is pressing. Louise must first create a commando of women especially chosen for the needs of the operation. This is the story of five women who didn't set out to be heroines, but who'll become them.
Cast: Sophie Marceau, Julie Depardieu, Marie Gillain, Déborah François, Maya Sansa and Julien Boisselier
Water Lilies
Directed by: Céline SciammaInfo: 2007 / Drama / 1h 25min
Link: Official Website
Friday, June 20th - 8:00pm
Tuesday, June 24th - 8:00pm
Summer in a new suburb outside Paris. Nothing to do but look at the ceiling. Marie, Anne and Floriane are 15. Their paths cross in the corridors at the local swimming pool, where love and desire make a sudden appearance.
Cast: Adèle Haenel, Pauline Acquart, Louise Blachère, and Warren Jacquin.
Awards: Cannes Film Festival « Un Certain Regard », Rotterdam Film Festival 2008, Nominated for the César 2008 : Best First Film and Most Promising Actress
You and Me
Directed by: Gaël MorelInfo: 2007 / Drama / 1h 40min
Saturday, June 21st - 4:20pm (In the presence of the Director)
Sunday, June 22nd - 6:30pm (In the presence of the Director)
Camille’s life is shattered by the sudden death of her son. Unable to come to terms with it, she becomes attached to Franck, her son’s best friend, who was also responsible for the tragedy…
Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Thomas Dumerchez, Guy Marchand and Élodie Bouchez
Awards: Cannes Film Festival « Directors’fortnight » 2007, Pusan Film Festival 2007
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Directed by: Julian SchnabelInfo: 2007 / Drama / 1h 52min
Link: Official Website
Wednesday, June 18th - 8:00pm
Sunday, June 22nd - 4:15pm
On December 8th, 1995, Jean-Dominique Bauby, a journalist and father of two children, suffered a stroke which plunged him into a deep coma. When he regained conciousness, all his motor body functions had deteriorated. He’d been struck by what is known in the medical profession as "locked-in syndrome": he could no longer move, speak nor even breathe without medical assistance. The only part of his inert body capable of moving was his left eye. This eye became his link with the world, with others, with life. He’d blink once to say "yes," twice to say "no." With his single eye, he’d focus visitors’ attention on letters of the alphabet dictated to him and form words, sentences, entire pages. With his eye, he wrote this book The Bell Jar and the Butterfly, for which, each morning during long weeks, he’d memorized sentences before dictating them.
Cast: Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Anne Consigny, Marina Hands, Emma de Caunes, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Marie-Josée Croze, Jean-Philippe Ecoffey, Niels Arestrup and Patrick Chesnais
Awards: Pusan International Film Festival 2007, Cannes 2007 Official Competition, Golden Globes 2008 : Best Foreign Language Film, Best Director, César 2008 Best Achievement in editing and Best Actor
Let's Dance
Directed by: Noémie LvovskyInfo: 2007 / Comedy / 1h 40min
Sunday, June 15th - 4:15pm
Tuesday, June 17th - 8:00pm
In the Bellinsky family: there's Salomon, the father, brimming with life but whom the world would like to bury all too quickly; Geneviève, the mother, who gradually lets herself slip into sheer madness; and Sarah, their daughter, caught between her separated parents, who patiently tries to build her life with her fiancé, François.
Cast: Jean Pierre Marielle, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Sabine Azéma, Bulle Ogier and Bakary Sangaré
Awards: Nominated for the César 2008 : Nominated for Best Actor, Best Actress in a supporting role, Best Music written for a film
Actresses
Directed by: Valeria Bruni-TedeschiInfo: 2007 / Comedy / 1h 47min
Sunday, June 15th - 2:00pm
Saturday, June 21st - 6:30pm
Marcelline is an actress. Forty, single and childless, she begins rehearsals for Turgenev’s A Month in the Country. Denis, the director, admires her greatly and promises he'll make her happy on stage – she will shine. But things don't go to plan. Denis introduces Marcelline to his assistant, Nathalie. The two women were at drama school together twenty years earlier. Nathalie tells her she had to give up acting: she has a husband and children. Marcelline and Nathalie look at each other as if in a mirror, each seeing in the other the life she doesn't have, the dreams she cannot bear to abandon. Their meeting is the first in a series of tremors that will turn Marcelline's life upside down.
Cast: Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Noémie Lvovsky, Mathieu Amalric, Louis Garrel and Valeria Golino
Awards: Special Jury Prize Festival de Cannes 2007, Pusan International Film Festival 2007, Nominated for the César 2008: Best Actress in a supporting role, World Film Festival Montréal 2007
Rivals
Directed by: Jacques MaillotInfo: 2008 / Thriller / 1h 43min
Sunday, June 22nd - 2:00pm
Monday, June 23rd - 8:00pm
Lyon, the late 1970s. Police inspector François learns that his brother, Gabriel, has been released from prison after serving ten years for murder. There’s no happy reunion for the cop and his older brother, but they share a desire to draw a line under the past. Gabriel tries to settle down and François bends over backwards to help him. But real life and the demons of the past catch up with them. For these two brothers divided by the lives they’ve chosen but bonded by blood, the paths they follow strangely seem to lead them to the same impasse.
Cast: Guillaume Canet, François Cluzet, Clotilde Hesme and Marie Denarnaud
The Feelings Factory
Directed by: Jean-Marc MoutoutInfo: 2008 / Drama / 1h 44min
Link: Official Website
Saturday, June 14th - 4:15pm
Thursday, June 19th - 8:00pm
Eloïse, 36, is a property lawyer in Paris. Young, good-looking and successful, she is nonetheless single.To end her solitude, and because deep down she desires a love-life that she initiates and controls like her career, she signs up with a speed-dating club. After all, isn't that all about being fast and efficient, too? 7 men, 7 women, 7 minutes to work their charm. Then the bell rings...
Cast: Elsa Zylberstein, Jacques Bonnaffé and Bruno Putzulu
Awards: Berlin International Film Festival 2008 (Panorama Section)
Could This be Love?
Directed by: Pierre JolivetInfo: 2007 / Comedy / 1h 33min
Saturday, June 14th - 2:00pm
Monday, June 16th - 8:00pm
Forty-three-year-old Lucas, a rich, divorced industrialist, is irresistibly attracted to thirty-eight-year-old Elsa, a renowned ceramist whom he’s commissioned to create a fresco for his office foyer. But, still smarting from a recent disappointment in love, he asks Roland Christin, a private detective from his company, to discover the reasons why this lovely woman is still single. Without the slightest scruple, Roland puts the most modern of surveillance methods into operation.
Cast: Vincent Lindon, François Berléand, Sandrine Bonnaire, Kad Merad, Liane Foly, Guilaine Londez and Albert Dray
Awards: Montréal World Film Festival 2007
The Maiden and the Wolves
Directed by: Gilles LegrandInfo: 2008 / Drama & Adventure / 1h 50min
Link: Official Website
Sunday, June 15th - 6:30pm
Saturday, June 21st - 2:00pm
At the end of First World War, 20 year-old Angèle is determined to become the first woman veterinarian. Her life is an adventurous one and she becomes the object of ruthless rivalry between the man she is supposed to marry, a visionary but unscrupulous industrialist and a simple man who has withdrawn to the mountains to live among wolves, away from the madness of humans. Angèle exploits this rivalry to attain her real goal: saving the wolves.
Cast: Laetitia Casta, Jean-Paul Rouve, Stefano Accorsi, Michel Galabru, Patrick Chesnais and Lorant Deutsch