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 Franco-Thai Koh Samui organize the French Cinema Week with a program of 6 French films (subtitles in English): Raining Cats and Dogs directed by Jacques-Rémi Girerd, Stavisky directed by Alain Resnais, Mondovino directed by Jonathan Nossiter, Gamblers directed by Frédéric Balekdjian, Love is in the Air directed by Rémi Bezançon, Jean de la Fontaine directed by Daniel Vigne.-
By Jacques-Rémi Girerd
Animation / 2003 / 1h30 mn
At the end of the world, far away from everything, a family lives peacefully on a cosy farm perched at the top of a hill. But at the base of the hill, the frogs are very agitated. There is no longer any doubt: all predictions coincide, a huge flood is about to inundate the earth.
By Alain Resnais
Cast: Jean-Paul Belmondo, François Périer, Annie Duperey
Drama / 1974 / 1h55 mn
France, July 1933. Leon trotsky secretly arrives in cassis. The French Government has granted him political asylum. At the same time, Serge Alexandre, a.k.a Stavisky, is rocking the Parisian political and financial scene with his many dealings squandering millions.
By Jonathan Nossiter
Cast: Michel Rolland, Neal Rosenthal, Aime Guibert
Documentary / 2004 / 2h15 mn
The film explores the impact of globalization on the various wine-producing regions, and the influence of critics and consultants in defining an international style. It pits the ambitions of large, multinational wine producers against the small, single estate wineries who have traditionally boasted wines with individual character driven by their terroir.
By Frédéric Balekdjian
Cast: Pascal Elbé, Simon Abkarian, Isaac Sharry
Drama / 2005 / 1h25 mn
Sentier, Paris’ garment district. Christmas is coming and Vahé Krikorian’s life is going to pieces. He works with his father in the family store, but it is soon going to shut down. There are too many unpaid debts. Lu Ann, who’d been living with him for some years, has just left him. And he senses that the scams he and his friend Sahak and his brother Toros have been running aren’t leading anywhere good.
By Rémi Bezançon
Cast: Vincent Elbaz, Marion Cotillard, Gilles Lelouch
Comedy / 2005 / 1h43 mn
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.
By Daniel Vigne
Cast: Lorànt Deutsch, Philippe Torreton, Sara Forestier
Biopic / 2007 / 1h40
Paris resounds with a thousand noises on this morning of September 5, 1661. Fouquet, the powerful superintendent, is arrested by order of Colbert, and young King Louis XIV takes the throne. While other artists, renouncing their friendship, rush to pay court to the new monarch, a man stands up to affirm his support for the fallen superintendent. He is the poet Jean de la Fontaine.
