LA FETE EVERYWHERE, LA FETE FOR EVERYONE!
For the 2nd consecutive year, LA FETE holds events all over Thailand; Chiang Mai, Chiang Rai, Hua Hin, Koh Samui, Phuket, and for the first time: Khon Kaen!
LA FETE in province, it’s LA FETE in panorama!
LA FETE and l’Alliance Française de Chiang Mai organize the French Cinema Week with a program of 5 French films: The First Comer directed by Jacques Doillon, The Girl from Monaco directed by Anne Fontaine, The Beaches of Agnès directed by Agnès Varda, God’Offices directed by Claire Simon, The Girl on the Train directed by André Téchiné.
By Jacques Doillon
Cast: Clémentine Beaugrand, Gérald Thomassin, Guillaume Saurrel
Drama comedy / 2008 / 2h03 mn A twenty-year-old woman tries to give some glow and lightness to her life, which she sees as highly lacking, useless, and without the intensity she needs. She decides to give her love away. Not to the most seductive, or to the most deserving, or the most admirable. No, men like that have no need of her. She will give her love to the "first comer."
By Anne Fontaine
Cast: Fabrice Luchini, Roschdy Zem, Louise Bourgoin
Drama comedy / 2008 / 1h35 mn
A brilliant and neurotic attorney goes to Monaco to defend a seventy-year-old criminal. But, instead of focusing on the case, he falls for a beautiful she-devil who turns him into a complete wreck... Hopefully, his zealous bodyguard will step in and put everything back in order... Or will he?
By Claire Simon
Cast: Nathalie Baye, Nicole Garcia, Isabelle Carré
Comedy / 2008 / 2h02 mn
In this choral film, we share in the daily lives of five family planning counsellors who advise the adolescent girls and women who come to speak with them. They want to learn about the conditions of a choice that they must or wish to take, rather than to be subjected to it. That choice is to do with their sexual freedom, and the moment when they'll have a child or not.
By André Téchiné
Cast: Émilie Dequenne, Catherine Deneuve, Michel Blanc
Drama / 2009 / 1h45 mn
Jeanne lives in a house in the suburbs with her mother Louise. One day, while checking job offers on the Internet, Louise believes that fate has come knocking at her door. She harbours the hope of getting her daughter a job with Samuel Bleistein, a famous lawyer whom she knew in her youth. Jeanne's and Bleistein's worlds are light years apart. However, they'll be set on a collision course because of an incredible lie that Jeanne puts together.
By Agnès Varda
Documentary / 2008 / 1h50 mn
Returning to the beaches which have been part of her life, Varda invents a kind of self-portrait-documentary. Agnès stages herself among excerpts of her films, images and reportages. She shares with humor and emotion her beginnings as stage photographer, then as early filmmaker of the French New Wave, her life with Jacques Demy, her feminism, her trips to Cuba, China, and the USA, her life as independant producer and her family life.
