I'm actually helping a friend/next-door office neighbour/organizing committee member of this festival promote this French Film Festival to be held on 26th - 28th June 2009 at the Golden Screen Cinemas, 1Borneo, Kota Kinabalu, Sabah. I believe it's the 1st to be held in Sabah. Tickets are on sale now @ RM35 per person/night. To buy, kindly contact Ms Suzanna at Tel: 088-249312.
There will be 3 French movies (don't worry all with English sub-titles so that everyone can understand what's going on!) to be shown throughout this 3-days festival as follows:
This is a unique opportunity for us to experience cinema-making from a different cultural perspective and to learn something about how French people handle relationships, life’s crisis and family interactions.
A different movie will be shown each night, covering three different genres. The first movie for Friday, 26 June, is called “Change of Address” and is a romantic comedy. It concerns David, a shy musician who has just moved to Paris. He falls madly in love with his young student, Julia, and tries everything to win her heart. It is his room-mate, Anne, who wants to give him advice, encouragement and consolation when things don’t work out. And all this, she does passionately!
(I've been told that on the 1st night - cheese and wine will be served free)
The second movie, which will be shown on Saturday, 27 June, is called “The Axe” and is a social thriller. In the current world-wide financial crisis, this film may strike a chord because it is about a business executive who loses his job after his company is restructured. He is not content to let this stand, however, and is ready to do anything to get his job back – even if it means killing his rivals!
To finish the series of movies (which were made between 2004 and 2006), we have a comedy called “Me and my Sister”. This is a story about a country-based sister, charming, open but rather awkward, who is coming to Paris for a meeting about a novel she has written – a meeting that could change her life. While in Paris, she stays with her beautiful, elegant older sister who lives a deeply middle-class life and is rather aloof. The clash between these two very different people forms the basis of this movie.
Tickets are being sold by the Ex-Franciscans’ Association to support St Francis Convent School’s projects.
We welcome the opportunity to see movies from a country with its own long tradition of film-making and to learn something about the French people and their culture.
So hurry babe - why don't go French on 26 - 28 June. AMUSEZ VOUS BIEN AU CINEMA!
