Alliance française Denpasar
Every friday at 7 pm, Alliance française de Denpasar offers you screenings of French and Indonesian movies with English subtitles.

FEBRUARY : MUSIC AND MUSICAL

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This February, let's watch a collection of French musical films that won many awards at various festivals.

 

Friday 10    February

19h00

Les Choristes

directed by Christophe Barratier

with Gérard Jugnot, François Berléand, Jacques Perrin

France | 2004 | comedy, drama | 95 min | French subtitle in English

César 2005 (édition n°30) : César de la Meilleure musique écrite pour un film, César du Meilleur son

Lumières de la presse étrangère 2005 (édition n°10) : Meilleur film

In 1948, Clement Mathieu, unemployed music teacher accepts a supervisory position in a boarding school for minors. The law enforcement system applied by the director, Rachin, made Mathieu disrupts. By initiating these difficult children to music and choral singing, Mathieu manage to transform their lives.

Film suitable for children from 6 years old

Friday 17   February

19h00










 

Faubourg 36

directed by Christophe Barratier

with Gérard Jugnot, Clovis Cornillac, Kad Merad

France |2008| comedy, drama, musical | 120 min. | French subtitle in English

Lumières de la presse étrangère 2009 (édition n°14) : Meilleur espoir féminin

Etoiles d'Or de la Presse du Cinéma Français 2009 (édition n°10) : Etoile d'Or de la Révélation féminine, Etoile d'Or du Compositeur de musique originale

Trophées Jeunes Talents 2009 (édition n°4) : Jeune comédien(ne) cinéma

People in a suburb north of Paris in 1936, the spring election of the Popular Front government bears the most extravagant hopes and promotes the rise of extremism. This is where three  unemployed workers decide to take over the music hall where they were employed only a few more months to put on a "hit show". The venue will be the scene of the most ephemeral of wonderful ventures.

Film suitable for children from 10 years old

Friday  23 February

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La Mome a k a La Vie en Rose

directed by Olivier Dahan

with Marion Cotillard, Jean-Pierre Martins, Gérard Depardieu

France | 2007 | biography, drama, musical |140 min.| French subtitle in English

20 awards and 27 nominations in some festivals for this film.
 

From her childhood in the glory, of her victories to her injuries, from Belleville to New York's journey of Edith Piaf. Through a destiny more incredible than a novel, discover the soul of an artist and a woman's heart. Intimate, intense, fragile and indestructible, devoted to her art to sacrifice, is the most charismatic singers ...

 

JANUARY : The parade of Luc Besson's movie

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Luc Besson is an extraordinary French director. Since diving accident at 17, Besson began to show interest and talent to produce work of quality fiction. One of his stories written and directed, inspired by a comic book that he read when he was a teenager, became a popular movie, "The Fifth Element" (The Fifth Element). For 26 years he has participated in over 50 films as both director, scriptwriter and producer. Some of his films are well known in Hollywood as the series Taxi and Transporter series and the movie Jet Li, Kiss of the Dragon and Danny the Dog.
 
The exception of the first week for an Indonesian movie!
 

friday

6 january

19h00

Madame X

directed by Lucky Kuswandi

with Amink, Marcell, Shanty, Sarah Sechan, Titi DJ

Indonesia | 2010 | Comedy | 102 min. | Indonesian subtitles in English

When the capital of a country of wonder is threatened by the emergence of KANJENG Badai and his political party activists and homophobic, the security of this country relies on Adam, an womanish hairdresser. Her high-heeled shoes, they will turn in slippers, her makeup glitter dust, or her leather pants, will become woven? When everything becomes vague, there is only one thing is certain: Adam must fulfill his destiny as a superhero "MADAME X"

friday

13 january

19h00

Adele Blanc Sec

directed by Luc Besson

with Louise Bourgoin, Gilles Lellouche, Mathieu Amalric

France | 2010 | adventure - police | 107 min. | French subtitled in English

In this year 1912, Adèle Blanc-Sec, an intrepid young journalist, is desperate to achieve his ends, including land in Egypt and find themselves struggling with the mummies of all kinds. Meanwhile in Paris, there's a panic! A pterodactyl egg136 million years old, has mysteriously hatched on a shelf in the Jardin des Plantes, and the bird strikes terror in the skies over the capital. Not enough to destabilize Adèle Blanc-Sec, whose adventures reveal many more extraordinary surprises ...

friday

20 january

19h00

Leon

directed by Luc Besson

with Jean Reno, Gary Oldman, Natalie Portman

France | 1994 | action - thriller | 103 min. | French subtitled in English

A contract killer Leon takes under his wing Mathilda, a girl of twelve, sole survivor of the massacre of his family. Soon, Leon will make Mathilda a "cleaner" like him. And Mathilda will avenge his little brother ...

Prohibited under 12
years old

 

friday

27 january

19h00

The Fifth Element

directed by Luc Besson

with Bruce Willis, Gary Oldman, Ian Holm

France | 1997 | Action - Adventure | 126 min. | French subtitled in English

At the XXIII century, in a strange universe and colorful, where any hope of survival is impossible without the discovery of the fifth element, the hero confronts the evil to save mankind.

 

Ciné Club of Alliance française Denpasar is supported by the French Cultural Center of Jakarta and the CCCL Surabaya. We wish to thank them.

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