We want to thank the more than 450 people who attended the Cinema Picnic by Moonlight last year. Join us again this year for a celebration of cinema in one of Bangkok’s most beautiful gardens!
Directed by Georges Méliès
Cast: Georges Méliès, Henri Delannoy, Bleuette Bernon, François Lallement
Silent Film, with Music by AIR / 1902 Star Film / 2011 Lobster Films–Fondation Groupama Gan–Fondation Technicolor / 16 mn
General audience-Just bring your picnic, everyone is welcome!
Films are screened in the original language
To launch the Evening in style and celebrate the 100th Anniversary of Alliance française in Bangkok, we’ll be showing an internationally acclaimed masterpiece that’s just recently been restored!
Six scholars, member of the Astronomers' Club, set off on an expedition to the moon. They travel in a bullet-shaped rocket fired into space by a giant canon. After arriving on the moon safe and sound, they meet its inhabitants, the Selenites, escape their king and return to earth in their rocket which, after falling into the ocean, is fished out by a sailor. Applause, decorations, and a triumphant parade for the six heroes of the first outer-space adventure in the history of cinema.
Nobody could have ever imagined that the most famous Méliès film still existed with colors. Yet the Barcelona Archive unearthed a miraculous color print in 1993, in terrible condition. Lobster Films, Groupama Gan Foundation for Cinema and Technicolor Foundation for Cinema Heritage conducted in 2010 a complete restoration. One of the most ambitious restoration in the history of cinema for some of the most famous images ever which was premiered on may 11, 2011 at the Opening Evening of Cannes Film Festival 2011 with music by French band AIR.
Directed by Emmanuel Mouret
Cast: François Cluzet, Julie Depardieu, Judith Godrèche, Gaspard Uliel, Arianne Ascaride
Comedy / 2011 / 1h25 mn
General audience-Just bring your picnic, everyone is welcome!
Films are screened in the original language
The very precise moment we fall in love, a particular kind of music is produced within us. This music is different for each of us and can arise at the most unexpected moments. The film is a series of quizzical disquisitions on love and its complications - a set of linked vignettes, featuring a crowd of recurring lovers, each illustrating a proposition about the vagaries of desire.
This film was restored by Lobster Films, Groupama Gan Foundation for Cinema and Technicolor Foundation for Cinema Heritage
