Alliance Française de Manille

The af Ciné Club presents

La Petite Lili (Little Lili)
A film by Claude Miller
(French version, with English subtitles)
2000, 104 minutes

Alliance Ondeo Auditorium
Wednesday, May 23, 2007, 8:30 pm
(Free Admission)

Le Coude Rouge Restaurant is open before and after the film screening

Starring:
Nicole Garcia (Mado Marceaux), Bernard Giraudeau (Brice),Jean-Pierre Marielle (Simon Marceaux), Ludivine Sagnier (Lili), RobinsonStévenin (Julien Marceaux), Julie Depardieu (Jeanne-Marie), and more

Genre:
Drama / Romance and more

Critic Reviews:
"A film that adapts the basic Russian Classic and then breaks away in moreways than just the setting"
- Martha Barber of Miami Herald
" Its lush feel and affectionate tone are a movie-loving Francophile's dreamcome true. "
- E!

When the young and overly sensitive filmmaker Julien screens his new DVart-film starring his girlfriend Lili--a sexy young local girl--to hisfamous actress mother Mado, and her lover Brice, an accomplished filmdirector, an unraveling of the delicate peace in their house begins. Thegraceful beauty Lili, who dreams of becoming a famous actress like Mado, isimmediately fascinated by Brice, who gladly falls prey to her charms. Lili'sambitions will stop at nothing and she soon seduces Brice into leaving Madoto take her to Paris so she can become a movie actress. Mado and Julien areleft to pick up the pieces of their disrupted lives, and for Julien the lossis almost fatal. Five years later, Julien, now a more established filmmaker,remakes a fictionalized account of this disastrous love quadrangle, whichnearly destroyed him. He reunites the characters--based on Mado, Brica andLili--in his first, highly autobiographical, feature film. In real life,Lili is no longer with Brice, but indeed, she has become a famous actress.When she learns of Julien's new film, and that it's about that tempestuoussummer of five years past, she tries to reconnect with him.

For more information, please contact:
Alliance Française de Manille
209 Nicanor Garcia Street (formerly Reposo Street),
Bel-Air 2, Makati City. 1209 Philippines.
Tels: 895-7585 / 895-7441 Fax: 899-3654 e-mail:info@alliance.ph
Office hours: Monday - Thursday: 9 am to 6 pmFriday: 9 am to 1 pm Saturday: 9 am to 5 pm

Alliance Française de Manille screenings

The af Ciné Club presents

Roberto Succo
A film by Cédric Kahn
(French version, with English subtitles)
2000, 124 minutes

Alliance Ondeo Auditorium
Wednesday, May 9, 2007, 8:30 pm
(Free Admission)

Starring: Stefano Cassetti (Roberto Succo / alias Kurt, André), IsildLe Besco (Léa), Patrick Dell'Isola (Thomas), and more
Genre: Drama / more

Critic Reviews:
"A cool, detached movie that keeps its worst violence off-screen and makes no judgments"
- Philip French of The Observer

"He is a revolting and very unglamorous villain in one of the mostcompelling films of the year"
- Peter Bradshow of Guardian

http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/roberto_succo/http://www.allocine.fr/film/fichefilm_gen_cfilm=34499.html

Synopsis: In the South of France, 25-year-old 'Kurt' seduces teenager Léa while she'sholidaying with her family. Introducing Léa to his very private world offake identities, 'borrowed' cars, and guns, Kurt enthralls and terrifiesher. Dismissing his fanciful stories about his past as nothing more thanidle boasts, Léa doesn't guess that her new boyfriend is actually Roberto
\nSucco, the escaped asylum inmate who's being hunted by half the police in\u003cbr\>\nFrance in connection with a series of kidnappings, robberies, and murders.

For more information, please contact:
Alliance Française de Manille
209 Nicanor Garcia Street (formerly Reposo Street),Bel-Air 2, Makati City. 1209 Philippines.
Tels: 895-7585 / 895-7441 Fax: 899-3654
e-mail:info@alliance.ph

Francophonie Film Festival

af Ciné Club presents
The "Francophonie" Film Festival
(as part as the "Francophonie Week", every Wednesday at 8:30 pm at Alliance Française Ondeo Auditorium)

Canada
March 28
La Grande Séduction

Switzerland
April 4
Du Rouge sur la croix

Egypt
April 11
Le destin

Africa
April 18
Moi & Mon Blanc

For more information, please contact:
Alliance Française de Manille
209 Nicanor Garcia Street (formerly Reposo Street ),
Bel-Air 2, Makati City . 1209 Philippines .
Tels: 895-7585 / 895-7441 Fax: 899-3654 e-mail:
info@alliance.ph

Office hours: Monday - Thursday: 9 am to 6 pm
Friday: 9 am to 1 pm Saturday: 9 am to 5 pm

Alliance Française de Manille screening

La Grande Séduction
(Seducing Dr. Lewis)

a film by Jean-François Pouliot(French version, with English subtitles)
2004, 1 h 49 minutes

Alliance Ondeo Auditorium
Wednesday, March 28, 2007, 8:30 pm
(Free Admission)

(Le Coude Rouge Restaurant is open before and after the film screening)

Starring:
Raymond Bouchard (Germain Lesage), David Boutin (Christopher Lewis), Benoît Brière (Henri Giroux), Pierre Collin (Yvon Brunet), Lucie Laurier (Ève Beauchemin), Bruno Blanchet (Steve Laurin), and more…

Genre: Comedy / (more)

Awards:
SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL: WINNER - WORLD CINEMA AUDIENCE AWARD
TORONTO FILM FESTIVAL: SPECIAL PRESENTATION
CANNES FILM FESTIVAL: CLOSING FILM - DIRECTOR'S FORTNIGHT

Synopsis:
Seducing Doctor Lewis is a beguiling story of a ragtag fishing community on a tiny, impoverished island who must persuade a young Montreal-based doctor (David Boutin) to live in their town in order to get a much-needed new factory. This film is a charming and funny tale, as well as a wry meditation on truth and falsehood.

For more information, please contact:
Alliance Française de Manille
209 Nicanor Garcia Street (formerly Reposo Street ),
Bel-Air 2, Makati City . 1209 Philippines .
Tels: 895-7585 / 895-7441 Fax: 899-3654 e-mail:
info@alliance.ph

Office hours: Monday - Thursday: 9 am to 6 pm
Friday: 9 am to 1 pm Saturday: 9 am to 5 pm

Alliance Française de Manille screening

The af Ciné Club presents

Cause Toujours
a film by Jeanne Labrune
(French version, with English subtitles)
2004, 87 minutes

Alliance Ondeo Auditorium
Wednesday, March 21, 2007, 8:30 pm
( Free Admission )

(Le Coude Rouge Restaurant is open before and after the film screening)

Starring:
Victoria Abril (Jacinthe), Jean-Pierre Darroussin (Bruno), Sylvie Testud
(Léa), Didier Bezace - (Laurent), Claude Perron (Judith), and more
Genre: Comedy / (more)

Critics Reviews:
"beautiful images and music and of course, great quality of its actors."
-Le Parisien

"The film forms a crackle whole of intelligence, humour and humanity."
-Libération - Gérard Lefort

Synopsis:
My first is a moth (exasperating)
My second is a mute (enigmatic)
My third is a house (worrying)
My all is a film, which takes the form of a fantasy, about mistrust and
trust.

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For more information, please contact:
Alliance Française de Manille
209 Nicanor Garcia Street (formerly Reposo Street),
Bel-Air 2, Makati City. 1209 Philippines.
Tels: 895-7585 / 895-7441 Fax: 899-3654 e-mail:
info@alliance.ph

Office hours: Monday - Thursday: 9 am to 6 pm
Friday: 9 am to 1 pm Saturday: 9 am to 5 pm

Alliance Française de Manille screening

Alliance Française de Manille

Vipère au poing
(Viper in the Fist)

a film by Philippe de Broca
(French version, with English subtitles)
2004, 100 minutes

Le Coude Rouge Restaurant is open before and after the film screening

Alliance Ondeo Auditorium
Wednesday, February 21, 2007, 8:30 PM
(Free Admission)

Critic Review:
“ fine acting and an ambiance that feels authentic ”
- David Nusair of Reel Film Reviews

“ Viper In The Fist is a handsomely mounted, ultimately predictable French film that nevertheless competently entertains with its lush visuals and terrific performances… it's easily recommended as a family-friendly rental ". - dvdtalk.com


Genre: Drama

Cast:
Catherine Frot .... Paule "Folcoche" Rézeau
Jacques Villeret .... Jacques Rézeau
Richard Bremmer .... Abbé Traquet
Sabine Haudepin .... Tante Thérèse
Jules Sitruk .... Jean Rézeau
Cherie Lunghi .... Miss Chilton; and more

Synopsis:

A cry of hatred and revolt, Vipère au poing is adopted from one of the most famous and popular child-hood-themed novels in French literature. Largely autobiographical, it tells on the tragical-comic mode of the violent and ruthless fight of a ten year old child against his own mother in the midst of a declining upper-middle class family at the end of the 1920s.


For more information, please contact:
Alliance Française de Manille
209 Nicanor Garcia Street (formerly Reposo Street),
Bel-Air 2, Makati City. 1209 Philippines.
Tels: 895-7585 / 895-7441 Fax: 899-3654 e-mail: info@alliance.ph

Office hours: Monday - Thursday: 9 am to 6 pm
Friday: 9 am to 1 pm Saturday: 9 am to 5 pm

Alliance Française de Manille screening

Alliance Française de Manille

presents

Brodeuses
(A Common Thread)

a film by Eleonore Faucher
(French version, with English subtitles)
2004, 88 minutes

Le Coude Rouge Restaurant is open before and after the film screening
Alliance Ondeo Auditorium
Wednesday, February 14, 2007, 8:30 PM
(Free Admission)

Critic Reviews:
" Brodeuses shows us rookie director Faucher's complete control over her material. A small gem of a film high on atmosphere and with two pitch-perfect performances. "
- Boyd van Hoeij (europeanfilms.net)

" ...Éléonore Faucher's film is a timeless, multi-layered affair of artistry, apprenticeship, friendship and love ".
- Laura Clifford (Reeling Reviews)

Genre: Drama (and more)

Cast:
Lola Naymark .... Claire Moutiers
Ariane Ascaride .... Mme. Mélikian
Marie Félix .... Lucile
Thomas Laroppe .... Guillaume
Arthur Quehen .... Thomas
Jackie Berroyer .... M. Lescuyer (as Jacky Berroyer)
Anne Canovas .... Mme. Lescuyer
Marina Tomé .... Gynecologist
Elisabeth Commelin .... Mme. Moutiers
Christophe Hatey .... Butcher
François Noël .... Bike Guy
Yasmine Modestine .... Nurse
Annie-Claude Sauton .... Baker
Nathalie Kirzin .... Round Woman
Ludivine Morissonaud .... Clotilde, (and more)

Synopsis:
When Claire learns that she is five months pregnant at the tender age of 17, she decides to give birth anonymously.

She finds refuge with Madame Melikian, an embroiderer for haute couture designers. And, day by day, stitch by stitch, as Claire's belly grows rounder, the threads of embroidery create a filial bond between them.



For more information, please contact:
Alliance Française de Manille
209 Nicanor Garcia Street (formerly Reposo Street),
Bel-Air 2, Makati City. 1209 Philippines.
Tels: 895-7585 / 895-7441 Fax: 899-3654 e-mail: info@alliance.ph

Office hours: Monday - Thursday: 9 am to 6 pm
Friday: 9 am to 1 pm Saturday: 9 am to 5 pm

Alliance Française de Manille screening

Alliance Française de Manille's the Cine Club

presents

BERNIE

a film by Albert Dupontel
(French version, with English subtitles)
film advisory warning: violent content
1996, 87 minutes

Alliance Ondeo Auditorium
Wednesday, February 7, 2007, 8:30 pm
(Free Admission)
Le Coude Rouge Restaurant is open before and after the film

Starring: Albert Dupontel (Bernie), Claude Perron (Marion), Roland Blanche (Willis), Hélène Vincent (The Mother), Catherine Samie (Mamoune Clermontf), and more

Genre: Drama, Black Comedy;

Critic Reviews:
" A hit French Cult movie " - Time Out Film Guide 13 (London - TimeOut.com)

" Abrasive score, augmented by screeching sound design, keeps the mood edgy and unpredictable ".
- LISA NESSELSON (Variety.com )

Synopsis:
A 30-year-old frustrated and neurotic orphan leaves the orphanage where he had stayed on to work having turned 18. His goal: to find out the true facts of his birth. Faced with the authorities' refusal to give him his dossier, he burgles the social welfare office and discovers the terrifying truth: He was found in a bin, probably dumped by his parents. Unable to accept this version he concocts another somewhat more fabulous scenario: His parents had fallen victim to a Mafia plot. He had been kidnapped and dumped in a garbage chute. Today, his parents are still alive, they need his help!


For more information, please contact:

Alliance Française de Manille
209 Nicanor Garcia Street (formerly Reposo Street),
Bel-Air 2, Makati City. 1209 Philippines.
Tels: 895-7585 / 895-7441 Fax: 899-3654 e-mail: info@alliance.ph
Office hours: Monday - Thursday: 9 am to 6 pm
Friday: 9 am to 1 pm Saturday: 9 am to 5 pm

Alliance Française de Manille's Cine Club

Violence des échanges en milieu tempéré
(Work Hard, Play Hard)
a film by Jean-Marc Moutout
(French version, with English subtitles)
2004, 99 minutes

Le Coude Rouge Restaurant is open before and after the film screening
Alliance Ondeo Auditorium, Alliance Française de Manille
Wednesday, January 31, 2007, 8:30 PM
(Free Admission)


Critic Review:
" A compelling story about a decent young executive who can't give up the power job he always dreamed of. This is a brilliant dramatization telling of the menace of working for a corporation ". - Dennis Schwartz (OZUS' WORLD MOVIE REVIEWS )

Genre: Drama (and more)

Cast:
Jérémie Renier .... Philippe Seigner
Laurent Lucas .... Hugo Paradis
Cylia Malki .... Eva
Olivier Perrier .... Roland Manin
Samir Guesmi .... Adji Zerouane, (and more)

Synopsis:
Philippe (25 years of age) arrives from the provinces in Paris to take up a job in a large consulting firm. On the morning of his first day at work he meets Eva, a young solo mother. They quickly become involved. He's enthusiastic about his first mission which is to audit a small factory with view to a takeover by a large corporation - unbeknownst to the factory employees. Philippe's boss is impressed by his reports and hands him the responsibility of a new task: to select the staff who will be capable of adjusting to the factory's new organization. Henceforth, Philippe must convince himself and Eva of the validity of his work and confront the men and women who will lose their jobs in the takeover.


For more information, please contact:
Alliance Française de Manille
209 Nicanor Garcia Street (formerly Reposo Street),
Bel-Air 2, Makati City. 1209 Philippines.
Tels: 895-7585 / 895-7441 Fax: 899-3654 e-mail: info@alliance.ph

Office hours: Monday - Thursday: 9 am to 6 pm
Friday: 9 am to 1 pm Saturday: 9 am to 5 pm

Alliance Française de Manille screening

Alliance Française de Manille presents

L'esquive
( Games of Love and Chance )
a film by Abdel Kechiche
(French version, with English subtitles)
2004, 117 minutes
Le Coude Rouge Restaurant is open before and after the film screening
Alliance Ondeo Auditorium
Wednesday, January 24, 2007, 8:30 PM
(Free Admission)

Critics:
" A work of drama, it's more realistic than any TV reality show."
- V.A. Musetto (New York Post)

" This graceful and sympathetic look at how the lives of teenagers intersect with a work of literature won several César awards in France." - A.O. Scott (New York Times)

Genre: Drama ; film advisory warning: violent content

Cast overview:
Osman Elkharraz .... Krimo
Sara Forestier .... Lydia
Sabrina Ouazani .... Frida
Nanou Benhamou .... Nanou
Hafet Ben-Ahmed .... Fathi
Aurélie Ganito .... Magalie
Carole Franck .... French Professor
Hajar Hamlili .... Zina
Rachid Hami .... Rachid
Meryem Serbah .... Krimo's Mother
Hanane Mazouz .... Hanane
Sylvain Phan .... Slam
Olivier Loustau .... Police
Rosalie Symon .... Police
Patrick Kodjo Topou .... Police, (and more)

Synopsis:
Abdel Kechiche's second feature, after the celebrated BLAME IT ON VOLTAIRE, firmly establishes the actor-turned-director as a major presence in world cinema. A grittily realistic portrait of life in a downtrodden Parisian housing project, GAMES OF LOVE AND CHANCE exhilaratingly captures the tumultuous ups-and-downs of adolescence. Krimo (Osman Elkharraz) is a tough-minded teenager who yearns for the day when his father will be released from prison. After breaking up with his girlfriend, Krimo begins to fall for the luminous Lydia (Sara Forestier), who he has known his whole life but has only begun to see in a romantic light. In order to get closer to Lydia, Krimo risks humiliation by joining the cast of the school play, an adaptation of Marivaux's A GAME OF LOVE AND CHANCE. The torment inflicted upon Krimo by the flirtatious Lydia is enough to make any kid crazy, but add a jealous ex-girlfriend and a neighborhood bully into the mix and his life seems downright impossible.

Shocking France by winning four Cesar Awards (including Best Film, Best Director, Best Screenplay, and Best Female Newcomer).


Alliance Française de Manille
209, Nicanor Garcia St. (formerly Reposo St.),
Bel-Air II, Makati City.
Tel: 895 7585 / 895 7441
Fax: 899 3654

Alliance Française de Manille screening

Alliance Française de Manille screening

S 21 la machine de mort Khmère rouge
( S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine )
a film by Rithy Panh
(French Film, in Vietnamese, with English subtitles)
2004, 101 minutes
Le Coude Rouge Restaurant is open before and after the film screening
Alliance Ondeo Auditorium
Wednesday, January 17, 2007, 8:30 PM
(Free Admission)

Critics:
"In this affecting and effective documentary, a placid artist returns to the place where he was tortured by the Khmer Rouge to confront the men who worked as guards."
- Elvis Mitchell (New York Times)

"Cinema at its most intellectually honest and morally necessary." - Ann Hornaday (Washington Post)

Genre: Documentary / History (more)
Cast overview:
Khieu 'Poev' Ches .... Himself - Guard
Yeay Cheu .... Herself - Him Houy's Mother
Nhiem Ein .... Himself - Photographer
Houy Him .... Himself - Security deputy
Ta Him .... Himself - Him Houy's Father; and more

Synopsis:
Under Pol Pot and the Khmer Rouge regime between 1974 and 1979, nearly 20,000 people were imprisoned, interrogated, tortured and executed at the detention and torture centre in central Phnom Penh, S21. Rithy Panh carried out a long inquiry with not only the rare survivors, but also their former torturers. In confronting torturers and victims, he leads us to a shattering reflection on the mechanism of totalitarianism.


For more information, please contact:
Alliance Française de Manille
209 Nicanor Garcia Street (formerly Reposo Street),
Bel-Air 2, Makati City. 1209 Philippines.
Tels: 895-7585 / 895-7441
Fax: 899-3654
e-mail: info@alliance.ph

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Alliance Française de Manille's Cine Club

Le Père Noël est une ordure
a film by Jean-Marie Poiré
(French version with English subtitles)
1982, 88 minutes

Alliance Ondeo Auditorium
Wednesday, December 20, 2006, 8:30 PM
(Free Admission)

Genre: Comedy / (more)
Cast overview:
Anémone .... Thérèse
Josiane Balasko .... Madame Musquin
Marie-Anne Chazel .... Zézette
Christian Clavier .... Katia
Gérard Jugnot .... Félix
Thierry Lhermitte .... Pierre Mortez
Bruno Moynot .... Zadko Preskovic
Martin Lamotte .... Mr. Leble
Jacques François .... the pharmacist
Claire Magnin .... Madame Leble
Michel Blanc .... the voice on the telephone; ... and more

Synopsis:
On Christmas Eve, a bunch of freaky types break into a Parisian lonelyhearts
call-center to cause outrage and mayhem.

After years of repeated TV airings, the film's cult status is stronger than
ever. It was adapted from the play of the same name.

For more information, please contact:
Alliance Française de Manille
209 Nicanor Garcia Street (formerly Reposo Street),
Bel-Air 2, Makati City. 1209 Philippines.
Tels: 895-7585 / 895-7441
Fax: 899-3654
e-mail: info@alliance.ph
website: www.alliance.ph