French Film Fanatics

Made this year and lasting two hours this is the UK Premiere of this very funny romcom by Emmanuel Mouret.

Joan is no longer in love with Victor and Alice ( Camille Cottin ) is delusional about Eric who in turn is having an affair with Rebecca.

When Joan finally decides to leave Victor the latter goes missing and the lives of all three friends are turned upside down.

With english subtitles.

Please either book in advance as the film is part of French Film Festival or chance paying on the day in either row F or M as you wish and take your seat by 6.05pm

My no 07714250849

A most wonderful afternoon in my home showing two deightful films :

The Red Balloon

An enduring enchanting and touching classic fantasy short film made in 1956 - Pascal a young Parisian boy finds a large red helium-filled spherical balloon and learns that it has a mind of its own when it begins to follow him everywhere.......a mesmerising masterpiece.

The Aviator's Wife

Eric Rohmer at his very talky best ! Not terribly much plot but the characterization, attention to detail and sense of period is first class !
A young Parisian student Francois is devastated when he finds out that Anne his girlfriend who is older than him is cheating on him.
In order to find out why she did it he decides to spy on her and her lover and on the way he meets another younger girl in the park......

Films will be shown 3pm to 3.35pm and 4pm to 5.45pm respectively and there shall be some goodies to nosh on.

My address in Mill Hill to be supplied by private message several days before the event.

My no 07714250849.

Made in 1999 and running at 113 mins is this rare attempt at a love story by Chabrol but is more an anatomy of a marriage and a vehicle to explore the complexity and opacity for human interactions in the wake of a murder as struggling painter Rene and his wife Viviane ( Sandra Bonnaire ) a nurse lead uneventful lives in a small town in Brittany.

The sense if peace is shattered by two events : the murder of a young girl called Eloise right after her weekly drawing lesson with Rene and also the arrival of their neighbour celebrity writer and inveterate womaniser Germain-Roland Desmot.

With english subtitles.

Please book in advance as this performance is in the smaller cinema and take your seat by 6.20pm and look out for others after the film whereupon might decide to have a coffee or drink.

Let's go see this fab modern stage version of Cyrano de Bergerac - that great film starring Gérard Depardieu !

The play starts at 7.30pm but let's arrive as from 5.45pm to try one of their great pizzas plus a festive drink or two .....

Bookings : ParkTheatre.co.uk / 0207 870 6876

Suggest row C or D in the stalls.

Virginia Gay's joyous gender-flipped retelling of Cyrano, packed with music, wit and aching romance is a love letter to hope ; to language and desire ; to the irrepressible magic of theatre.

Cyrano is a wordsmith and a charmer, though she's deeply ashamed of something about herself.

Enter Roxanne : brilliant, beautiful, beautiful, with a penchant for poetry and a way with words.

Roxanne only has eyes for hot manly Yan, who is dumbstruck around her. Until he starts saying the most amazing things.

But it's not Yan writing these perfect love scenes, it's Cyrano.....

" A sizzling and hilarious 21st century comedy.......a damn near perfect night out at the theatre " such is the amazing review of this production by The Scotsman.

" Dazzling clever " said The Financial Times.

My no 07714250849.