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May 2023

MAY FILM WEEKEND AT THE COACH HOUSE: ALPHAVILLE Sunday 14th May at 7pm Dir. Jean-Luc Godard. A detective story fused with science fiction. Lemmy Caution, a hero Godard borrowed from a series of French adventure films, comes to Alphaville, the capital of a totalitarian state, in order to destroy its leader, an almost-human computer called Alpha 60. While on his mission, Lemmy meets and falls in love with Natacha, the daughter of the scientist who designed Alpha 60. Their love becomes…

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June 2023

Malvern French Film Centre Unfortunately this film will no longer be shown as part of the Malvern French Film Festival.  Le gamin au vélo will be screened in its place.  For info please click HERE.  

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  Malvern French Film Centre: LE GAMIN AU VELO 2011 (12A) – colour 97 mins (drama/comedy)  Luc Dardenne, Jean-Pierre Dardenne Belgian drama in which 12-year-old Cyril is abandoned by his father and left in state care. He finds a new friend in a local hairdresser, who takes pity on him and agrees to foster him on weekends. Cannes Film Festival 2011 Winner Grand Prize of the Jury

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September 2023

MFFC: LE DERNIER MÉTRO (PG)

17th September 2023 7:00 pm

  MALVERN FRENCH FILM CENTRE 2023/24 SEASON LE DERNIER MÉTRO 1980 (PG) - colour 131 mins (drama/romance/war) François Truffaut When the Nazis occupy Paris, Jewish theatre owner Lucas Steiner goes into hiding in the cellar, giving control of the theatre to his gentile wife, Marion. She mounts a new play, hires a new actor Bernard Granger and casts him in the lead. The two soon develop feelings for one another. Cézar Awards 1981 : Best film François Truffaut, best actor Gérard Depardieu, best…

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October 2023

  MALVERN FRENCH FILM CENTRE 2023/24 SEASON LA FILLE SUR LE PONT 1999 (15) - B&W 90 mins (comedy/drama/romance) Patrice Leconte On a Paris bridge, a girl leans out over the Seine with tears in her eyes, contemplating the icy waters below. Suddenly a stranger appears, a man who will change her life. It is Gabor, a fading performer in need of a partner. He sets his sights on this luckless but oddly alluring Adele, a girl shifting nervously on…

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November 2023

  MALVERN FRENCH FILM CENTRE 2023/24 SEASON LA RAFLE DU VEL D'HIV 2010 (12A) - colour 115 mins (drama/history/war) Rose Bosch La Rafle chronicles the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup of July 1942, in which roughly 13,000 Jews living in Paris (4,501 of them children) were removed from their homes by French police and sent to detention camps before being deported to Auschwitz. It was a grave moment of extreme complicity and betrayal by the Vichy government and French police. Atlanta Jewish…

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December 2023

MFFC: BOÎTE NOIRE (15)

3rd December 2023 2:00 pm

  MALVERN FRENCH FILM CENTRE 2023/24 SEASON BOÎTE NOIRE 2021 (15) - colour 129 mins (drama/mystery/thriller) Yann Gozlan Matthieu is a young black box analyst on a mission to solve the reason behind the crash of a new aircraft. The case is closed by the authorities but Matthieu cannot help but sense there is something wrong. He listens again and detects disturbing details. Could the tape have been modified? He begins his own rogue investigation - a dangerous quest for…

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January 2024

  MALVERN FRENCH FILM CENTRE 2023/24 SEASON FANFAN LA TULIPE 1952 (A) - B&W 102 mins (adventure/comedy/romance) Christian-Jaque Roguish Fanfan (Gérard Philippe) escapes being wed to a farm girl when a gypsy, Adeline (Gina Lollobrigida), predicts that he'll find glory in the army, then marry a princess. After enlisting he learns that Adeline is the recruiter's daughter and invented the prediction. He decides to make the fortune come true and in a sword fight rescues the king's daughter, which convinces…

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February 2024

  MALVERN FRENCH FILM CENTRE 2023/24 SEASON ILLUSIONS PERDUES 2021 (15) - colour 144 mins (drama/romance) Xavier Giannoli In 1821, Lucien arrives in Paris as an idealistic young poet determined to write a reputation-making novel. Instead, he finds himself swept into journalism, booming with the help of the new printing press.Under the mentorship of a cynical editor he agrees to write rave theatre reviews for bribes, achieving success at the expense of his conscience. A sweeping adaptation of Balzac's great…

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March 2024

MFFC: Gas-oil (PG)

March 17th 3:00 pm

  MALVERN FRENCH FILM CENTRE 2023/24 SEASON GAS-OIL 1955 (PG) - B&W 93 mins (crime/drama) Gilles Grangier After spending the night with his girlfriend, trucker Jean runs over a dead body on the road. He reports the incident to the police, who suspect that he was responsible for the death, and his new truck is impounded. To make matters worse, the man’s widow accuses him of having robbed her husband, and a gang of crooks are also after him. Stars…

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