51st Hong Kong French Film Festival

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The Hong Kong French Film Festival – French Cinepanorama is back for its 51st edition, for the greatest pleasure of all French cinema lovers in Hong Kong!

The Hong Kong French Film Festival is the longest running film festival in Hong Kong. With more than 50 titles, this new edition is a wonderful opportunity to discover this year’s remarkable achievements of French cinema. The French Cinepanorama is once again proud to allow cinemagoers in Hong Kong to experience, through the lens of some of our greatest filmmakers, the life and culture in France as well as French perspectives on the world and society.

Two of the most anticipated French releases of 2022 will kick off this new edition: Simone, the Journey of the Century, a gripping biopic on Simone Veil, one of France’s most important female political figures; and Notre-Dame on Fire, a remarkable account of the Paris firefighters’ heroic rescue operation to save the world’s most iconic cathedral from the flames.

For the first time, the festival will also take place in the brand new M+ Cinema, with a retrospective of 10 films by Claire Denis, highlighting the importance of women’s arthouse filmmaking.

Finally, the French Cinepanorama will pay tribute to two of France most prominent figures of the world of cinema who recently disappeared: Jean-Luc Godard, the French New Wave legend who forever changed the history of cinema, and Gaspard Ulliel, a dear friend of the HKFFF whose incredible acting talent will forever remain on film. I wish you all “bon festival”!

Since its establishment in 1953, Alliance Française has been dedicated to bringing the best and the latest French cinema to its Hong Kong audience.

The HK French Film Festival is the oldest cinema festival in town. It has been running since 1972 without interruption and we celebrated its 50 th edition in 2021. Alliance Française is proud to present for its 51st edition another exciting programme to the movie fans of Hong Kong in 2022.

This year’s selection is a mix between a large 2022-film selection and a series of retrospective + homages: 56 films of the year, the first tribute to a cinematographer, Claire Denis at M+ Cinemas and a selection around JeanLouis Trintignant, Gaspard Ulliel and Jean-Luc Godard who recently passed away. This will be a spectacular firework of French cinema in Hong Kong during the 3 weeks of our festival!

I would hereby like to take this opportunity to thank profusely our team, artists, partners, and sponsors for their unwavering support of the festival.

Whichever the films you choose, our selection this year invites you to embark on an extraordinary cinematic journey of French movies.

I wish you a most enjoyable 2022 Festival!

CONTENT 目錄

OPENING FILMS & HONG KONG PREMIERE 開幕電影及香港首映

Opening Film 開幕電影：

Simone: The Journey of the Century 07 西蒙韋伊的世紀歷程 (Simone – Le Voyage du siècle)

Opening Film 開幕電影：

Notre-Dame on Fire 巴黎聖母院：火海奇蹟 08 (Notre-Dame brûle)

One Fine Morning（片名待譯）(Un beau matin) 09

Return to Seoul 回首爾後 (Retour à Séoul) 10

FESTIVAL EXCLUSIVE 電影節精選

About Joan 珍妮的人生 (À propos de Joan) 12

Angry Annie 暴走安妮 (Annie colère) 12

Babysitter 保姆 13 Bootlegger 走私客 13

Brother and Sister 姐弟 (Frère et sœur) 14

The Colour of Fire 燎原之火 (Couleurs de l’incendie) 14 Diary of A Fleeting Affair 偷情日記 (Chronique d’une liaison passagère) 15 Driving Madeleine 美好走一回 (Une belle course) 15

Everybody Loves Jeanne 萬千寵愛 16 (Tout le monde aime Jeanne)

Farewell Mr Haffmann 赫夫曼先生，您好走不送 16 (Adieu Monsieur Haffmann)

Final Cut 煞科！ (Coupez !) 17

Forever Young 杏仁劇院 (Les Amandiers) 17 Freestyle 橫衝直撞環法自由行 (En roule libre) 18

Heart of Oak 橡樹 (Le Chêne) 18

Incredible But True 不可思議的真相 19 (Incroyable mais vrai)

The Innocent 清白的人 (L’Innocent) 19 Kompromat 黑材料

Little Nicholas - Happy As Can Be 20 小淘氣尼古拉：快樂方程式 (Le Petit NicolasQu’est-ce qu’on attend pour être heureux ?)

Mascarade 虛情假意

The Night of the 12th 十二號晚上 (La Nuit du 12) 21 November 驚天十一月 (Novembre)

One Year, One Night 那一年，那一夜 (Un an, une nuit)

Paris Memories 再會巴黎 (Revoir Paris)

Ride Above 乘風破浪 (Tempête)

Rise 舞魂 (En corps)

Rosy, the Forbidden Journey

亮麗人生:不可能之旅 (Rosy)

The Sixth Child 第六個孩子 (Le Sixième enfant) 25

The Super-8 Years 超八米厘年代 25 (Les Années Super-8) Shoot or Die 為電影而生 (Tourner pour vivre) 26

Umami 鮮味之謎 26

Uman - The Perfect Man 完美的男人 27 (L’Homme parfait)

The Velvet Queen 雪國王者:雪豹 27 (La Panthère des neiges)

Waiting for Bojangles 等待快樂 28 (En attendant Bojangles)

FEVER DREAMS: THE CINEMA OF CLAIRE DENIS 熾夢人間：克麗雅丹妮回顧展

Opening Film 開幕電影： Both Sides of the Blade 心身雙刃（暫譯） 30 (Avec amour et acharnement) 35 Shots of Rum

(35 rhums)

Bastards 仇人的情婦 (Les Salauds)

Beau travail 軍中禁戀

Bright Sunshine In 巴黎眾色相 (Un beau soleil interieur)

Chocolat 巧克力

I Can’t Sleep

Nénette et Boni

Everyday

Material

(J’ai pas sommeil)

IN PRAISE OF JEAN-LOUIS TRINTIGNANT, JEAN-LUC GODARD

GASPARD

A Man and A Woman

(Un homme et une femme)

A Very Long

She recounts her life in the limelight.

French feminist leader Simone Veil is the first elected president of the European parliament and the former French health minister. She had a tough childhood: a survivor of the Holocaust who rose to become the most respected and influential politician in 20th century France. With an epic image, this extraordinary and controversial lady who subverted social values and perceptions in political struggles brings Europe out of hate and barbarism.

by Jean-Jacques Annaud, Notre-Dame on Fire offers a blow-by-blow recreation of the gripping events that took place on April 15, 2019, when the cathedral suffered the biggest blaze in its history. The film retraces how heroic men and women put their lives on the line to accomplish an awe-inspiring rescue.

Sandra is a widowed young mother raising her daughter on her own, while also caring for her sick father. She’s dealing with the loss of the relationship she once had with her father, while she and her mother and sister fight to get him the care he requires. At the same time, Sandra reconnects with Clément, a friend she hasn’t seen in a while and, although he’s married, their friendship soon blossoms into a passionate affair.

Born in South Korea and raised in France by French foster parents, 25-year-old Freddie gets a chance to visit her motherland when she is rerouted by a typhoon. Stepping on Korean soil for the first time as an adult with little knowledge of her native language and culture, Freddie begins an unpredictable journey in search of her biological parents. In his follow-up to the acclaimed Diamond Island, Cambodian-French director Davy Chou drew from the experiences of other Korean adoptees to craft this engrossing voyage of a restless wanderer in search of the roots she left behind.

About Joan

Joan has always been an independent and loving woman with a free and adventurous spirit. She runs into her first lover after years of his absence. She decides to not tell him the fact that they have a son together - it’s time for her to revisit her life: her youth, her accomplishments, her love stories and her relationship with her son. She seems to have a fulfilling life: yet, she has to face the secret she has been hiding.

A countryside village in France, January 1974. When she accidentally becomes pregnant, Annie, a working mother of two teenagers, meets with the Movement for the Liberation of Abortion and Contraception (MLAC); doctors and women who perform illegal abortions in the public eye, practicing a free, safe and respectful method. Gradually Annie will join their battle, which will bring a new meaning to her life.

Babysitter

Sexist Cédric is suspended from work after drunkenly kissing a female reporter on live TV. Stuck at home with his long-suffering girlfriend, Nadine and their incessantly crying baby, Cédric teams up with his brother, JeanMichel, to co-author a book apologising for their past misogyny. Enter Amy: a mysterious and provocative young babysitter who, like a Mary Poppins of the libido, forces the trio to confront their sexual anxieties while turning their lives upside down.

Mani returns to her community in Northern Quebec. She gets involved in the debate surrounding a referendum to allow the free sale of alcohol on the reserve. Laura, a bootlegger, pockets profits, covered by the tribal council. As secrets are revealed and the community grows apart, the two women face each other as they decide which path to independence is best.

Brother and Sister

sœur

never forgive Louis,” says Alice in front of her critically ill father. She could no longer hold back her persisting hatred against her brother. Resentment has invaded the everyday life of Alice, and they have never seen or spoken a word with each other ever since. The more successful Louis becomes, the more tormented and drug addicted Alice is. But at the final days of their parents, they are nevertheless forced to cross paths.

Paris, 1927. After the death of her father, Madeleine Péricourt should have inherited the familial financial empire. But she has a son, Paul, who with an unexpected and tragic gesture will place her on the path to ruin and social decline. After a while, she decides to take back her life, to have it under control. It is time for her to have her vengeance. This magnificent movie is the sequel of the story started in See You Up There (2017).

you still love her?”

course!”

you are not cheating on her.”

that’s

single mother and a married man fall in love. They have pledged to see each other only for an affair and not to expect a loving relationship, knowing very well that this bonding has no future. However, they are more and more bewildered by their consensus, their complicity and the well-being they feel together…

years old Madeleine calls herself a taxi to the nursing home where she will live the rest of her life. She asks Charles, the slightly disillusioned driver to take her on a tour to the places of paramount importance in her life for the very last time. As she makes her way through the streets of Paris, some exceptional flashes of the past emerge to Charles’ eyes.

a taxi ride could be life-changing.

Everybody Loves Jeanne Tout le monde

Farewell

loved Jeanne when she was young. Even though she is now forty years old, she is still always surrounded by praising voices. However, Jeanne knows very well that she is over-indebted, broke and becomes cynical. She, now, has to return to Lisbon to sell the flat of her recently deceased mother. At the airport, high school classmate Jean recognises Jeanne, whose impression has totally slipped Jeanne’s mind. Jean, who has a peculiar mindset would not let Jeanne go…

Final

a disused factory, a Z-grade horror film shoot is in full swing. Jaded technicians, uninvolved actors… only the director seems to possess the necessary energy to give life to this extremely low-budget zombie movie. During the preparation of a particularly difficult shot, filming is disrupted by an eruption of the real living dead. In front of the camera, everything looks more-orless normal. Behind it, the crew is freewheeling to save the film while following their one and only watchword: DON’T CUT!

the end of the 1980s, Stella, Victor, Adèle and Etienne are 20 years old. They take the entrance exam to the famous acting school created by Patrice Chéreau and Pierre Romans at the Théâtre des Amandiers in Nanterre. On their journey towards becoming actors, they immerse themselves in a demanding world. Launched at full speed into life, passion, and love, together they will experience the turning point of their lives, but also their first tragedy.

Heart of Oak Le Chêne 橡樹

The crazy story of Louise, 45, who gets trapped in her own car one morning... she is having an unexplainable panic attack. Unable to put a foot outside the car, she drives aimlessly in panic. Hence, her adventures begin! A young lad, Paul, who is only interested in stealing the car and driving it to the ocean, has no choice but to kidnap Louise as well, given she physically cannot alight the car. Behold, a voyage of two strangers crossing paths.

Once upon a time, there was a 210-year-old oak tree that became a pillar in its kingdom. This spectacular adventure film brings together an extraordinary cast: squirrels, weevils, jays, ants, field mice... This vibrant, humming and marvellous little world seals its destiny around this majestic tree that welcomes them, feeds them and protects them from its roots to its top. A poetic ode to life where nature alone expresses itself.

Alain and Marie move to a quiet suburb. A mysterious tunnel in the cellar of their new home will turn their lives upside down. In this film Quentin Dupieux plays the surprise card. What is in the cellar? Why and how does it shake up the couple’s lives? The answers can only be found in the darkness of the movie theatre. But it is another crazy and resourceful story from Dupieux who has more than one trick up his sleeve!

Sylvie is a 60-years-old tutor who runs drama workshops at the prison. As time goes by, she fell in love with one of the inmates, Michel and is about to marry him. Yet her son Abel freaks out and disapproves, knowing that her relationships with inmates will always cause problems. With the help of his best friend, Clémence, he will do whatever it takes to protect her. Yet, meeting his new step-father offers him some new perspectives.

by a true story. 2017: Matthieu is a French diplomat based in Russia. When he is taking care of his daughter as usual today, a few masked men force their way into his home and captured him. With false documents, the Russian Security Service charge him with distribution of children pornographic materials. This literary man will have to be reborn as a man of action in order to flee the tragic fate awaiting him in the cold and hostile Siberia frost.

Little NicholasHappy As Can Be

Somewhere in Paris, Jean-Jacques Sempé and René Goscinny work on a large white sheet of paper and bring to life a mischievous and endearing boy, Little Nicolas. From schoolyard games and fights, to summer camp pranks and camaraderie, Nicolas lives a merry and enriching childhood. The boy slips into the workshop of his creators, and questions them with humour. Therefore, they tell him their own story.

Mascarade

Adrien, an attractive dancer whose career was shattered by a motorbike accident, wastes his youth in the laziness of the French Riviera, where he is looked after by Martha, a former movie star. Adrien’s life is turned upside down when he meets Margot, a captivating beauty who lives for the thrill of scams and romantic entanglements. Together, they fantasise about a better life and set up a diabolical scheme, an emotional masquerade.

The Night of the 12th La Nuit du 12

is the catalyst.

At the Criminal Investigation Department, it is said that all investigators come across a crime that they are unable to solve and that haunts them. For Yohan, it is Clara’s murder. The interrogations follow one another, there is no shortage of suspects, and Yohan’s doubts keep growing. Only one thing is certain, the crime took place on the night of the 12th.

On 13 November 2015, helplines ring fanatically at the report centre at night.

Everybody is overwhelmed by the series of terrorist attacks. Fear engulfed the sky of Paris. When the entire country is floating on tears, in the 5 following days, there is no room for error for the police’s anti-terrorist team to act and investigate promptly with agility. Wounds are still fresh and all eyes are on the police.

On the evening of 13 November, 2015, Céline and Ramón, a French-Spanish couple living in Paris, go to the Bataclan to attend a rock concert. After the attacks, the two survivors struggle to rebuild their existences, to find a sense of normalcy in their lives, to absolve themselves of their status of victims. Yet they must find a way to heal wounds that may never close.

Paris

What happened on that autumn Saturday evening?

Mia was dining at a restaurant when terrorist bloodbath took place in Paris. It’s been 3 months, yet Mia’s memories of that night were fragmented and she is still too traumatised to live a normal life. To regain momentum to live, she revisits the scene and tries to reconstruct her memories. Could the fingerpointing and denial of others bring happiness to Mia and help her get back on track?

Born in her parents’ stud farm, Zoé grew up surrounded by horses and has only one dream: to become a jockey! Tempête, a filly she sees being born, will become her alter ego.

But one stormy night, Tempête, in a panic, tramples on Zoé’s back and shatters all her dreams. But she will hang on, whatever the cost, for years, and will try the impossible to reconnect with her destiny.

had the perfect life: an ideal boyfriend and a promising ballet dancer career. Everything falls apart when she catches her boyfriend cheating on her; and then suffers an injury on stage. It seems like she might be unable to dance again. The path to physical and emotional recovery will lead her away from Paris to Brittany where new connections and the freedom of contemporary dance will open a new world to her.

is 21 when she is diagnosed with a multiple sclerosis, an autoimmune disease without any treatment. This illness threatens her ability to move. She may become partially or fully paralyzed. Determined and full of life, she is ready to go beyond the medical advice, travelling the world for nine months with one thing in mind: reconnect with herself and learn to live with her scleROSIS, her “ROSY”.

The Sixth Child

Sixième enfant

Franck is a scrap dealer who lives with Meriem in the outskirts of Paris. They have five children, a sixth on the way, and serious money problems. Julien and Anna are lawyers and can’t have children. Faced with the irrepressible and desperate desire to start a family on one hand, and the need to protect one on the other, the two couples choose to make an arrangement. An unthinkable arrangement that could cost them everything.

re-viewing our super eight films, shot between 1972 and 1981, it occurred to me that they comprised not only a family archive but a testimony to the pastimes, lifestyle and aspirations of a social class in the decade after 1968. I wanted to incorporate these silent images into a story which combined the intimate with the social and with history, to convey the taste and colour of those years.”

Shoot Or Die Tourner pour

For 7 years, Philippe Azoulay follows the tireless Claude Lelouch in his voyages and film shoots in Paris and around the world. In this documentary, you will discover Lelouch’s sense on film sets like Salaud, on t’aime and Un plus une . As a love letter to cinema and its actors, Tourner pour vivre shows a Lelouch brimming with creativity whose only regret is that he will surely never have the time to shoot even half of his projects.

Carvin, a starred chef, receives his third crystal star from a culinary critic. The same evening his wife leaves him. The emotional overflow triggers a stroke that forces him to stay away from his kitchen for a while. He decides to go to Japan, where he will embark on a journey to discover the mysteries surrounding the taste a Japanese chef who defeated him used a long time ago: umami, the fifth taste.

Perfect Man

Florence, a lawyer overwhelmed by her family life, decides to buy a humanoid robot with a perfect physique. The robot meets all her expectations: maintain the house, take care of the children, and more… By maliciously disrupting their daily routine, the robot also arouses the jealousy of her self-centred careless husband, Franck, a second-class actor who suddenly realises he must make some efforts not to lose the love of his wife.

up on the Tibetan plateau. Amongst unexplored and inaccessible valleys lies one of the last sanctuaries of the wild world, where rare and undiscovered fauna lives. Vincent Munier, one of the world’s most renowned wildlife photographers, takes the adventurer and novelist Sylvain Tesson with him on his latest mission. Searching for unique animals and try to spot the snow leopard, one of the rarest and most difficult big cats to approach.

Waiting for

front of their little boy, Camille and Georges dance on their favourite song Mr Bojangles. With them, there is only place for fun and fantasy. The one who shows the way is the mother, an unpredictable wisp. She leads them into a whirlwind of poetry so that the party continues again and again, no matter what happens. Mad love has never lived up to its name so well. Until the day when the mother goes too far…

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Claire Denis (b. 1946, France) began her career working on set in Dusan Makavejev’s Sweet Movie (1974). Her years working alongside Wim Wenders and Jim Jarmusch were crucial to her growth as a filmmaker before she directed her debut Chocolat (1988). Her next films I Can’t Sleep (1994) and Nénette et Boni (1996) interweave narratives inspired by the urban culture of Paris. Denis’s elliptical narrative and visual style received widespread acclaim with Beau Travail (1999) while Trouble Every Day (2001) made a shocking presentation in which Denis, regarded as an arthouse director, turned to the horror genre. The 2000s were significant for her career, which saw the release of Friday Night (2002), 35 Shots of Rum (2008), and White Material (2009). In 2022, Both Sides of the Blade and Stars at Noon won prizes at the Berlinale and Cannes respectively. Working closely with her longtime collaborators, such as cinematographer Agnès Godard and the rock band Tindersticks, Denis has contributed a diverse body of work to contemporary cinema.

Both Sides of the Avec amour et acharnement

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Jean, a former professional rugby player, and Sara, a radio personality, have been happily together for a decade. A chance encounter leads Sara to her ex-boyfriend François, who was once good friends with Jean. A visceral feeling awakens inside of Sara that is bound to push her relationships with both men to the brink.

Both Sides of the Blade reunites Claire Denis with stars Juliette Binoche, Vincent Lindon, and Grégoire Colin. The film is a slow-burning drama that possesses immense empathy for characters who experience the intensity of love like a blade cut to the heart.

Shots of Rum

operates a commuter train in Paris, where he lives with his daughter, Josephine. Their life together is simple and blissful, as they are content with each other’s company. While Lionel, a widower, is reaching the age of retirement, Josephine is making her way into the adult world as an university student. The caring father begins to realise that his child is no longer a child, and that the dynamic between them is bound to change when Josephine’s bond with their neighbour Noé deepens.

Beau

Captain of a container-ship Marco returns to Paris upon hearing that his sister’s husband has committed suicide. He finds out that his sister’s family business is in tatters, while her teenage daughter is hospitalised with mysterious injuries. Wishing to discover what happened, Marco rents an apartment near his brother-in-law’s creditor — a shady businessman with unspeakable secrets — and begins to seduce the man’s lover Raphaëlle.

Beau Travail is an adaptation of Herman Melville’s allegorical novel Billy Budd

On the African coast, a group of mercenaries in the French Foreign Legion are stuck in a sunbaked desert, remnants of a ghost army that punish themselves with drills and training rituals to fight boredom. Numbed by the pointless routine, Sergeant Galoup becomes obsessed with the young recruit Sentain.

Grégoire

Juliette Binoche plays a divorced artist and single mother who is in an unfulfilling relationship with a married banker. She eventually breaks off with him and begins a series of flings that stop short of blossoming into full-fledged relationships. Even though Isabelle’s carousel of lovers sounds like the setup of a mainstream romantic comedy, Claire Denis moulds this deceptively accessible story into a philosophical discourse on love.

Chocolat

film traces a white woman’s return to her childhood home in Cameroon. She recalls life in the colonial outpost during the 1950s, a time when she was oblivious to the racism and oppression faced by her African servant. Denis examines personal past and systemic prejudice with the clear eyes of a veteran filmmaker in Chocolat. While her style has grown to become more audacious in subsequent films, this film signifies an essential chapter in the development of a singular artist.

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Sleep

pas sommeil

et Boni

In a neighbourhood of Paris where a series of murders have taken place, aspiring Lithuanian actress Daïga strives to achieve her dream. Meanwhile, immigrant musician Théo struggles to raise his son with the intention of returning to his native Martinique. Théo’s brother, Camille, is a gay performer who makes ends meet by dancing at a cabaret.

Can’t Sleep is a period piece set in the 1980s when real-life serial killer Thierry Paulin, who — together with his lover — murdered more than twenty elderly women in Paris’s 18th arrondissement.

In the port city of Marseilles, fifteen-yearold Nénette, who is pregnant, escapes from boarding school and descends on Boni, her elder brother. Boni, a pizza vendor who spends his days fantasising about a baker’s wife from the neighbourhood, unwillingly takes her in and learns to balance his new role as a brother and protector. The estranged siblings, who were raised apart, gradually reconnect as they warily confront an unexpected journey together.

Trouble Every

Shane, an American doctor who travels to Paris to seek his former paramour Coré. The mysterious Coré escapes her husband's domestic confinement every day to find sex with strangers, and she ends each encounter by murdering them. Shane feels an irresistible urge to reunite with her despite the danger ahead.

The biggest shock in this unconventional vampire film is not the gore, but rather Denis’s ability to dive into the visceral nature of the characters’ desire to connect and destroy.

White Material 白鬼

Civil war and desperation have set in during the twilight of an unnamed French colonial post. A ferocious Isabelle Huppert plays the unforgettably crazed character Maria, who is a towering force of will and blindly refuses to abandon her coffee plantation before finishing the harvest. Most of the plantation’s workers have fled, while both the government army and the rebels, including a ragtag band of child soldiers, are fast approaching from different directions.

A Man and A Woman

Very Long

man and a woman meet by accident on a Sunday evening at their children’s boarding school, slowly finding out that they are both a widow/ widower. They prefer revealing anything personal gently so that they could hide themselves with a misperception. They become close friends gradually, then she realises that her memory of her deceased husband is too strong for her to love anyone. As they go about their day, words are heard and told in action.

1919, Mathilde, 19 years old, learns that her fiancé Manech, who had left for the front two years earlier, has died in battle. A former sergeant tells her that Manech died in the no-man’s-land of a trench, but Mathilde is not convinced and refuses to accept what is told. Mathilde therefore embarks on a real counter-investigation. She will slowly unravel the truth about the fate of Manech and his comrades. The path is full of obstacles, but that doesn’t deter Mathilde.

PRAISE OF

knew each other long ago: a man and a woman whose dazzling and unexpected romance captured in the now-iconic film revolutionised our understanding of love.

Today, the former race car driver seems lost in the pathways of his memory. In order to help him, his son seeks out the woman his father wasn’t able to cherish but whom he constantly revisits in his thoughts and dreams. Anne reunites with JeanLouis and their story picks up where they left it...

Breathless A bout de souffle 斷了氣

A young, handsome Bogart wannabe rascal is on the run after killing a cop. He returns to Paris for his money and also tries to persuade his beloved American student to take flight with him. After all the indecision, she eventually betrays him. Before his “breathless” moment, he still longs for this unrequited love.

Breathless is Godard’s first feature film and was conceived by him as a break with the traditions of “quality” film-making and a return to the directness and immediacy of the American Ganster movie.

Confidentially Yours

An estate agency owner is first implicated inone murder and then his wife is killed. As he is on the run, it falls to his long-suffering secretary to solve the crimes for him. However, this enables both of them to re-examine their past relationship and the depth of colseness that they have long forgotten about.

This is Truffaut’s last film and is based on an American novel (Charles William’s The Last Saturday Night).

After 12 years of absence, a writer goes back to his hometown, planning on announcing his upcoming death to his family. As resentment soon rewrites the course of the afternoon, fits and feuds unfold, fueled by bitterness and fear, while all attempts of empathy are sabotaged by people’s incapacity to listen, and love. The next work of Xavier Dolan after Mommy. Adapted from the play of the same name by Jean-Luc Lagarce.

Georges and Anne are in their eighties, they are cultured people, retired music teachers. They are both happy in their peaceful little cocoon. Their daughter, also a musician, lives abroad with her family.

One day, Anne has an accident. The old couple’s sky darkens slowly. The unshakeable love that had united this couple for so many years will severely be put to the test.

My Night at Maud’s Ma nuit chez Maud

An introverted Catholic engineer recounts his interactions with a timid churchgoer he hopes to marry and a sexy, freethinking divorcee on whose bed he has slept – nothing really happens on that night, but underneath is a microscopic examination of attitudes, values and moral choices exchanged through subtle gestures and expressions. One of Rohmer’s most popular and biggest critical successes – a luminous, erotic and unerringly witty meditation on romantic and religious (in-)decisions.

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Pierrot Le Fou

Ferdinand gives up his cozy but boring bourgeois life, and hits the road with Marianne, a woman whom he had an affair five years ago. Their adventure turns dangerous (Marianne obviously is linked to the gangster world), and soon, boring. They are more and more alienated.

This is the second of Godard’s “Tricolour (Blue, White and Red) Series” (the first being A Woman is a Woman).

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$95 Regular Price 正價

$85 Alliance Française membership cardholders (maximum 2 tickets per screening)

$76 BC VIP & MOViE MOViE Member (maximum 2 tickets per screening)

$75 Concession 優惠票

time student / elderly / children

Ticketing

Handling fee will be charged on each ticket purchased online (HK$10/ ticket)

Hotline

Ticketing

Handling fee will be charged on each ticket purchased online (HK$10/ticket)

Enquiry Hotline

Online Ticketing

www.cinema.com.hk

Handling fee will be charged on each ticket purchased online or by phone (HK$8/ticket & HK$10/ticket for Weekdays & Weekends Screenings

Enquiry Hotline

Online Ticketing

Handling fee will be charged on each ticket purchased online or by phone

& HK$10/ticket for Weekdays & Weekends Screenings

Enquiry Hotline

students, senior citizens aged 60

Comprehensive

CSSA

above, people with disabilities and the minder

Security Assistance (CSSA)

for full-time

CINEMA

M+ 戲院

Special Notes 特別注意事項：

At the time of this programme goes to print, some of the films have not been submitted to the Office for Film, Newspaper and Article administration. In the event that a film is subsequently classified as Category III, refunds will be made to ticket holders under 18 years old (with the original tickets intact, from 24 November to 13 December 2022) at the Alliance Française de Hong Kong, 2/F, 123 Hennessy Road, Wanchai.

The content of the programme does not represent the views of the presenter and sponsors. The presenter reserves the right to change the programme and the schedule should unavoidable circumstances make it necessary.