Festival Sinema Perancis is Here

I still remember sitting in Planet Hollywood theatre Bali, two years ago with my friend, Carla, and watched this sickening French movie which portrayed many horrible scenes; a woman soldier being stripped naked and raped by 5 enemy soldiers, and later on a scene where a guy's genital was being cut off. I couldn't stand it and decided to get out of the cinema until the movie end. Since then, I haven't watched French Film Festival again. 

Well, now the festival is here again... You can visit the official website and see the movie trailers. French movies often have different approach, especially towards sexuality and humour... therefore, if you are looking for entertainment (seriously), my advice would be to avoid the thriller, war, or horror movies. 

Here are the movies that I'd like to watch: 

Faubourg 36 - Paris 36 

The story is set in a suburb of north-east Parisbetween December 1935 and July 1936 during the “revolutionary” period of the “Popular Front”. Three unemployed performers decide to take over by force the music hall where they worked a few months earlier and stage a popular show there.

Showing at: Blitz megaplex Grand Indonesia April 24th - 18.30.

Le Code a Changé - Change of Plans

A dinner party is the dictatorship of appearances: you dress up, laugh, tell stories, pose, share memories and plans. Anxiety is concealed behind humor and pain stifled by bursts of laughter. And for a few hours, you’re taken in! That’s all that counts. If you have the right codes, respect the other guests with cordiality, hypocrisy and high spirits, there’s a chance it’ll be a good evening... But the masks slip on the way home...

Showing at: Platinum XXI FX Plaza April 21st - 19.30.

Le Concert - The Concert 

30 years ago, Andrei Filipov, renowned conductor of the Bolshoi orchestra, was fired for hiring Jewish musicians. Now a mere cleaning man there, he learns that the Châtelet Theater in Paris invites the Bolshoi orchestra. He decides to gather together his former musicians and to perform in the place of the current Bolshoi orchestra. As a solo violin player to accompany his old musicians he wants Anne-Marie Jacquet, a young virtuoso, so that this concert becomes a triumph.

Showing at: Blitzmegaplex Grand Indonesia April 25th - 16.30.

Les Bureaux de Dieu - God’s Office  

Djamila would like to be on the pill; Zoé’s mother gives her condoms but calls her a whore; Nedjma hides her pills because her mother searches her bag; Hélène complains about being too fertile; Adeline wished she could have kept it; Ana Maria has opted for freedom. Anne, Denise, Marta, Yasmine, and Milena are the advisers. They listen to each of them as they wonder how to cope with sexual freedom. In “God’s office”, you laugh and cry and feel swamped.
 

Showing at:

Yogyakarta • Studio XXI May 1st - 12.00, May 2nd - 21.00
Denpasar • Galeria XXI May 8th - 21.30, May 9th - 18.00, May 10th - 20.30.

For the complete listing, you can go to this link. Let me know if you pick the same movie ;)