A festival of Louis Malle’s films will be held from September 15th to 19th, at 6:30 p.m. This festival is an Alliance Francaise of Madras endeavour in association with NDTV and ICA Foundation. The film fest will be inaugurated in a grand function to be held on September 15th at South Indian Film Chamber Theatre. The eminent guests who will attend this function include Marie-Paule Serre, director of Alliance Francaise; Mr. Kannan, president of ICAF; Mr. T.S. Rajagopalan, vice-president of Finance, Sundaram-Clayton Ltd; Rohini, cine artiste; and Mr. Sriram, eminent writer and film critic.
Louis Malle was a French film director who worked both in English and French. An incredibly talented filmmaker, he had the capacity to present the vagaries of life in a succinct and appealing manner. His films explored the “methods of the society”, briging out on the silver screen what life meant to various people. But it does not take high discerning capacity to understand his ideas. His films are based on dark truths of everyday happenings of life, simple and succinct, but effective.
The Itinerary:
September 15th: Elevator to the Gallows (Louis Malle’s first film) is a well-made murder mystery in which a woman wants to kill her husband, for which she connives with her lover.
September 16th: In The Lovers, the life of a fashion-obsessed and materialistic woman changes forever when she meets a simple and non-hypocritical man.
September 17th: The Fire Within is a striking tale about a depressed man who withdraws from a suicide attempt to meet his old friends one last time in an attempt to find out if there is any reason to continue living at all. September 18th: Goodbye Children is about the life of a Jewish boy living under a false identity in a Jew-hating society.
September 19th: Zazie in the metro will take you for a trip down the memory lane, when you longed to travel in train. The film showcases life through the eyes of a twelve-year-old girl, forced to spend her weekend with her uncle so that her mother could be with her boyfriend. Zazie tries to realize her long-cherished dream of travelling on the metro this weekend, but it is on a strike. Her reactions to the situation form the crux of the film.
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