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 Khon Kaen University organize the French Cinema Week with a program of 5 French films:Kirikou and The Wild Beast directed by Michel Ocelot, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg directed by Jacques Demy, Play Time directed by Jacques Tati, Baby Love directed by Vincent Garenq, Me and my Sisterdirected by Alexandra Leclère.
By Michel Ocelot
Animation / 2005 / 1h15 mn
The grandfather, reigning in his blue grotto, explains: “The story of “Kirikou and the Sorceress” was too short. We didn’t have time to recount everything that Kirikou managed to accomplish. And he really did accomplish some terrific things that we mustn’t forget. Listen, I’ll tell you…” And he tells us how inventive Kirikou became a gardener, detective, potter, merchant, traveler, and doctor, always the smallest but bravest hero.
By Jacques Demy
Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Nino Castelnuovo, Anne Vernon
Musical / 1964 / 1h30 mn
An umbrella shop girl is separated from her mechanic boyfriend when he is called for military service. Alone, she faces a life altering decision.
By Jacques Tati
Cast: Jacques Tati, Rita Maiden, Barbara Dennek
Comedy / 1967 / 2h06 mn
Monsieur Hulot has to contact an American official in Paris, but he gets lost in the maze of modern architecture which is filled with the latest technical gadgets. Caught in the tourist invasion, Hulot roams around Paris with a group of American tourists, causing chaos in his usual manner.
By Vincent Garenq
With Lambert Wilson, Pilar Lopez de Ayala, Pascal Elbé
Romantic comedy / 2008 / 1h33 mn
Manu, a gay paediatrician in his forties, would be perfectly happy if he could adopt a child and bring him or her up with his partner, Philippe, a lawyer. Where the shoe pinches is that Philippe is pleased with his present life and will not have it spoiled by the invading presence of a baby. Manu is however single-minded about finding a surrogate mother, willing to give him the child he craves. Fina, an Argentine beauty trying to get a job, but held back because of her lack of immigrant papers, might do the job for him in exchange for a marriage of convenience.
By Alexandra Leclère
Cast Catherine Frot, Isabelle Huppert, François Berléand
Comedy / 2004 / 1h33 mn
Louise, 36, is a charming young woman who is disconcertingly open and rather awkward. She’s a beautician and lives in Le Mans. Martine, 38, is her older sister. She’s a very beautiful, elegant woman, although aloof. She lives a deeply middle-class world in Paris. Louise has written a novel and she has an important meeting in Paris that could change the course of her life…
