2017 Le Jeu de l’Amour et de la Vie

PROGRAMME English French aair. obsessively watch Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn in Charade. It's a wispy, tasteful, touching, very Lisa (played by Laurentwrites sad herself), folk songs and works in a music shop. All three characters Malone from the lm version of The Big Sleep, which rather sets the general tone. The single mother, restaurant critic, are-enact French version of the bookshop encounter between Bogart and Dorothy specialising in Anglo-Saxon literature. The rst time she appears, she and her boyfriend, Alex, a son, both close to their tough handsome mother. The adopted girl, Marine, manages a bookshop women are two sisters living in Lyon, one adopted, the other a single mother with a delightful little de Cherbourg and Les demoiselles de Rochefort without the music. In this case the pretty young love and family life in provincial France. In its whimsical, bittersweet way it's very like Les parapluies playing the French heroine of Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, is a soft-centred, romantic movie of The rst feature to be directed by Mélanie Laurent, best known in the English-speaking world for her The adopted Thursday 11th Ma Renoir paintings in live action on screen. tor Gilles Bourdos used the services of a convicted forger,art Guy Ribes, to create and re-create the himself, his great career as one of the most celebrated movie directors having not yet begun. Direc artists, a father and son. While the father is at the end his brilliant career, the son is still searching for son, the lm director Jean Renoir. Andrée was the link between two famous and widely acclaimed the last model of impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir and the rst actress in the lms of his The lm tells the forgotten story of Andrée Heuschling, also known as Catherine Hessling, who was Renoir Thursday 4th May Albert, Raphaël and Fleur. member of the Duval family – the taxi driver Robert, his pretty wife Marie-Jeanne, and their children, you too, son". coversIt ve days between 1988 and 2000, each one seen from the point of view of a concerning the horrors of family life, or any Gallic equivalent of Hollywood's "I love you, Dad", "I love growing up, growing old and dying, devoid of sentimentality, acquiescence in Larkinesque cynicism This is a funny, deeply aecting and often painfully truthful movie about families, parenthood, The First Day of the rest of your life Thursday 27th April 7pm in the Forum at the school. All lms have English subtitles. £9 or £70 for the 10 lms includes wine and cheese and the presentation of the lm. Sessions start at Harrogate Grammar School French lm season begins on Thursday 27th April. The participation of French Films 2017 Le Jeu de l’Amour et de la Vie 2017 (2013) 107 minutes (2012) 95 minutes y (2008) 108 minutes - milk of human kindness, but the sadness behind his severity comes to the fore in private. the lm’s distractedly dramatized court case, Racine won’t be internally ooded with the tenderizing of heart in his near future, which is partially the case here: Over the course of Conventional romantic comedy logic would dictate that such a character has a signi cant uperciliousness, though he later admits to wearing it only out of sartorial cluelessness. to the antiquated ermine cloak he still wears to court; it’s as convenient a symbol as any of his be ex-wife among those who would testify to the latter. The pic’s French title, “L’hermine,” refers reputation for disproportionately harsh sentencing and snippy interpersonal skills - with his soon-to of la grippe. A big cold sh in the relatively small pond of provincial commune Saint-Omer, he has a Xavier Racine, hus into the building, his usual prickliness ampli ed tenfold by a congested case “Here comes Racine, like an icy wind,” mutters a colleague as Luchini’s dour arbiter of justice, Courted Thursday 8th June a growing mutual respect, with each envying the other's lifestyle. rst) is to lead a bank robbery. Manesquier soon realises Milan's intentions, but this does not prevent Saturday - Manesquier is to undergo a major operation, and Milan (though he keeps this secret at looming in the background are two unavoidable events that each is expecting to take place on the The lm tells the story of the developing relationship between these apparent opposites, though nds accommodation via a chance meeting with a retired French teacher, Manesquier (Rochefort). Milan (Hallyday) arrives in a small town by train at the start of the week. The hotel is closed, but he The man on the train Thursday 25th May more love and protection. death. It's also a bitter condemnation of the sel shness of adults who could oer their charges demonstrates the strategies of children who witness war to deal with the constant presence of in an orphanage for legal adoption. Unsentimental and yet heart-breaking, Forbidden Games the absence of the children. Eventually, authorities locate Paulette and insist that she be placed kill themselves. The Dolle family is too busy feuding with the Gouards, their neighbours, to notice which Paulette's dog is interred, along with other animals and insects, some of whom the children Poujouly), the family's 11-year-old son, becomes her best friend, and they create a cemetery in family after her parents are killed during a bombardment of a civilian convoy. Michel Dolle (Georges story focuses on Paulette (Brigitte Fossey), a ve-year-old refugee from Paris taken in by a peasant Festival. Adapted by Francois Boyer, director Rene Clement, and two others from Boyer's novel, the critical smash, winning prizes from the New York Film Critics, the British Academy, and the Venice Film One of the rst lms to see the horrors of war through the eyes of children, Forbidden Games was a Forbidden Games Thursday 18th May 2017 (2015) 93 minutes (1952) 80 minutes (2001) 86 minutes - in a housing project north of Marseille his dilapidating chateau, and a thuggish immigrant brother-in-law (Jamel Debbouze) who lives wife (Hajar Masdouki) - run into stereotypes like a depressed French noble (Lambert Wilson) in there, the couple - a running gag is that Fatah is more attached to Jacqueline than to his own City of Light, where the two inevitably take a photo in front of the Eiel Tower. Before they get beauties as Jacqueline, who travel together from the tiny village of Bolayoune all the way to the The lm stars Franco-Algerian comic Fatsah Bouyahmed as Fatah, and two Tarentaise-race La vache Thursday 6th July sun. along their life's stories and what they learned along the way under the warmth of the summer love, work, family, vegetables and anything else that crosses their minds as they casually pass saw one another. Over the next several months, the gardener and the painter chat about life, gardener gets to work, he and the artist talk about where their lives have gone since they last gardener (Jean-Pierre Darroussin) turns out to be an old friend from his school days, and as the neglect, and he hires a local gardener to put it back into shape. To his great surprise, the country. The artist notices that the house's once-impressive vegetable garden has fallen into (Daniel Auteuil) well known for his nature studies inherits his family's vacation house in the of a summer in this low-key comedy-drama from France. After the death of his mother, an artist Two men nd themselves sharing a lifetime of experiences and observations over the course Conversation with my Gardener Thursday 29th June couple apart. Noémie Schmidt), who, desperate to make her own way, agrees to use her charms to drive the upon a devious plan. He oers free board to attractive student Constance (vivacious newcomer (television comic Guillaume de Tonquédec) and the ighty Valérie (Frédérique Bel), Henri strikes of bad manners and good intentions. Bitterly opposed to the relationship between his son Paul Veteran star Claude Brasseur plays the cantankerous Henri of the title in this riotous comedy The Student and Mr Henri Thursday 22nd June new life and be able to replace the man that believed to be irreplaceable? sees Natalie, a young doctor, coming from the hospital to assist him. But will she adapt to this them, heals and reassures them day and night, 7 days a week. Now Jean-Pierre is sick, so he All the people in this countryside area, can count on Jean-Pierre, the doctor who auscultates Medecin de Campagne Thursday 15th June 2017 ©Alain Le Bourdon (2017) (2016) (if available) 96 minutes (2016) 97 minutes (2015) 95 minutes (2009) 109 minutes