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Film Festivals & Special Screenings

Italian and Mexican Film Screening
Indo Cine Appreciation Foundation in association with UTV World Movies is screening the
following movies.
On 01.10.09, 6.15 p.m. La Zona (Mexico)
On 01.10.09, 7.45 p.m. Identification Of A Woman (Italy)
At South Indian Film Chamber Theatre, 606, Anna Salai, Chennai.
For more information contact Tel: 2821 2652 / 6516 3866
Louis Malle Film Festival
Louis Malle is an iconic French filmmaker and this year again, NDTV Lumiere, in association with
Alliance Francaise and Indo Cine Appreciation Foundation (ICAF) brings his films to Chennai. The
selection of films presents the diverse range of Malle’s repertoire. Given below is a gist of the
movies being featured in this Festival.
Mon 5th Oct – Black Moon, 1975, 95 min
This is an Alice-in-Wonderland type of movie. In the not-so-distant future, the war of the sexes is
getting ugly. Bullets are flying and mass executions are taking place. A young girl, Lily, is looking
for shelter when her car is stopped by soldiers. She escapes into the woods, where a unicorn leads
her to an abandoned house. On entering, Lily is transported into a strange fantasy world. Talking
rats, a psychic gardener, sobbing flowers, children, snakes and insects all combine in this bizarre,
colorful tribute to Surrealism from master director Louis Malle.
Tue 6th Oct – May Fools (Milou En Mai) 1990, 107 min
Matching the chaos of the 1968 riots to the chaos within a family, May Fools is a sly comic attack
on bourgeois French society. When his ageing mother dies, Milou calls his family to the estate for
the reading of the will. The riots are in full swing in nearby Paris, and as tensions escalate outside
the compound, family secrets are revealed and old scores settled. French society is on the brink of
change, but can one family unite in the face of long standing issues?
Wed 7th Oct – Calcutta, 1969, 105 min
With minimal narration by the director and very little context this is a kaleidoscope of stunning
visuals from Calcutta, a city of 8,000,000 in the late 1960’s: rich and poor, exotic and mundane,
secular and religious, children and adults, animate and inanimate. Given only the images, the
viewer can read any meaning she or he wants into the film.
Thu 8th Oct – Murmur Of The Heart (Le Souffle Au Coeur) 1971, 138 min
Louis Malle’s critically acclaimed 1971 drama combines elements of comedy, drama, and
autobiography in a candid portrait of a precocious adolescent boy gaining sexual maturity. Both
shocking and deeply poignant, the film received an Oscar nomination for Best Screenplay in 1972
and was in official selection at the 1971 Festival de Cannes.
Fri 9th Oct – Goodbye, Children (Au Revoir Les Enfants) 1987, 104 min
Winner of the Golden Lion at the 1987 Venice International Film Festival, and nominated for an
Academy Award, Louis Malle’s Goodbye, Children is a cinematic tour de force. Set during the
Holocaust, the film explores the friendship between a Catholic and a Jew, secretly hiding from the
Gestapo.
The films will be screened at South Indian Film Chamber Theatre, 6.30 pm, at 606, Anna Salai,
Gemini Circle, Chennai – 6.
CONTACT AFM 2827 9803/2827 1477 & ICAF – 2821 2652 / 6516 3866

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