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MAY FILM WEEKEND AT THE COACH HOUSE: UNE FEMME EST UNE FEMME Jean-Luc Godard A French exotic dancer is desperate to become a mother. When her lover refuses to commit to the decision, she turns her romantic attentions to his best friend, and feelings becomes complicated when he accepts. The film has luxurious visuals and a charming score by Michel Legrand. Berlin International Film Festival 1961 Best Actress Anna Karina, Special Prize Jean-Luc Godard. Cert: PG Runtime: 85 mins Year: 1961 Format: Colour Genre: Comedy/Drama/Romance
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MAY FILM WEEKEND AT THE COACH HOUSE: LE MÉPRIS Dir. Jean-Luc Godard. The story of the end of a marriage. Camille falls out of love with her husband Paul while he is rewriting the screenplay Odyssey by American producer Jeremiah Prokosch. Just as the director of Prokosch’s film, Fritz Lang, says that The Odyssey is the story of individuals confronting their situations in a real world, Le Mépris itself is an examination of the position of the filmmaker in the commercial…
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MAY FILM WEEKEND AT THE COACH HOUSE: MASCULIN, FÉMININ Dir. Jean-Luc Godard. In several vignettes Godard paints a picture of French youth through the unlikely relationship between Paul, just demobbed from the army and politically aware, and Madeleine, an aspiring pop star. The film is a struggle between consumerism and idealism shown with wit and aplomb. Cahiers du Cinéma 1966 Best Film Cert: 12 Runtime:110 mins Year: 1966 Format: Black & White Genre: Drama/Romance https://youtu.be/4fSoyXQeD8c
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MAY FILM WEEKEND AT THE COACH HOUSE: PIERROT LE FOU 1965 (15) – colour 110 mins (crime/drama/romance) Jean-Luc Godard Ferdinand and Marianne meet when Ferdinand’s wife hires Marianne as a baby-sitter. As he drives Marianne home, Ferdinand decides to run away with her. The couple get caught up in a mysterious gun-running scheme involving Marianne’s brother. The film incorporates musical numbers, references to the history of cinema, painting, and quotations from literature. British Film Institute 1965 Winner Jean-Luc Godard Cahiers du…
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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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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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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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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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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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