On Screen This Week
Films at Luxe Cinemas :
Tauranga & Papamoa
Check their website for days and times
An Evening with Victor Hugo – Victor comme tout le monde (Hugo)
French acting legend Fabrice Luchini plays popular performer Robert Zucchini, who has built his career on a stage act that lauds the works of the famous writer Victor Hugo. Robert’s bold reverence of Hugo’s ‘male genius’ doesn’t always play well with more enlightened modern audiences, and he finds himself not only at odds with a feminist theatre troupe, but with his adult daughter Lisbeth, who has recently reappeared in his life. Robert wrestles with how art meets with politics – but more importantly, with his real-life relationships. Where he once took refuge in texts of the past, Lisbeth demands his presence in the moment.
With his daughter’s help – and a trip to Guernsey where Hugo wrote Les Misérables – Robert begins to reconnect with his past, open up to others and relearn the practice of his craft.
Robert Zuchini est un comédien amoureux des mots de Victor Hugo. Il se rend chaque soir dans un théâtre parisien pour lire et raconter son œuvre. Hors de la scène, il traîne une douce mélancolie, teintée de solitude. Il n’a plus de contact avec sa fille, Lisbeth, qu’il n’a pas élevée.
Trailer : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clKXk3gE_Kg&t=1s
De Gaulle: Liberté (Part two) continues
June 1940. France collapses and signs the Armistice. In the midst of the chaos, one man, Charles de Gaulle, refuses to give up. Taking the ultimate gamble he flees to London and seeks to convince the world that the battle for France is neither over or lost. What follows next is a triumphant story of faith, audacity and an unshakeable quest for freedom. Antonin Baudry has crafted a powerful and dramatic view of a man at the very centre of a turning point in history, on his path to becoming a 20th century leader and cultural icon. The reality of intense politics, family struggles and the impact of war are deftly drawn in this geopolitical thriller, which has been more than five years in the making.
Association Francaise Tauranga Ciné Club
French Ciné Club Tauranga – November
Where: Luxe Cinema , 21 Devonport Road, Tauranga
Tickets: Standard: $19*, Senior or Full time Student: $15*, AFT members : $12.50*
Tickets MUST be booked. Book them HERE
DVDs to Lend Out
I have approximately 120 French DVDs that anyone who is still able to view DVDs is most welcome to borrow. There are comedies and dramas, recent and older films, famous actors and less famous. All are subtitled in English.
Let me know if you don’t have, but would like, the catalogue and then make your choice.
shelley@lovefrench.nz or ph 07 578 9416. No charge.
Sur le petit écran – on the Small Screen
TV NZ OnDemand :
Look in their Foreign Language category. There are more French offerings than you might think. Ben, 37 Seconds, Voltaire in Love, Hunted, Manipulations, Moloch, One Fateful Night, Revival, The Sentinels, The Paris Murders , and Vise le Coeur are on the list, in French with English subtitles :
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/categories/foreign-language
If anyone has watched one of these, please send me a review to share.
Voltaire in Love & The Paris Murders on TV NZ On Demand Now
Voltaire : Contre l’intolérance, l’homme qui ne voulait pas se taire.
This portrait of a young man shaped by exile and personal tragedy explores the experiences that forged one of history’s most influential philosophers.
The Paris Murders :
Gifted with razor-sharp intuition, a police profiler teams up with a savvy homicide detective to crack the toughest of cases.
Netflix :
L’été 36 : French 6-part series
Nice, 1936. The elite vacationing on the Côte d’Azur are disturbed by workers enjoying their first paid holidays. Four women from different classes become entangled in a murder at the luxurious Riviera Hotel. 9/10 Recommended -especially if you watch it in French with English subtitles first, and then in French with French subtitles.
Durant l’été 1936, pour la première fois de leur vie, des salariés, profitant des congés payés, débarquent sur la Côte d’Azur. Ils vont côtoyer les classes bourgeoises et, au milieu de cela, quatre femmes de milieux différents vont être liées à un meurtre survenu dans l’hôtel de luxe Riviera.
Trailer : https://www.netflix.com/title/82049215
Library Movie Streaming:
All you need is a Tauranga City library card and the internet and you will be able to access over a thousand films and documentaries via Beamafilm, or classical music, concerts, ballets ,documentaries, artist portraits and education programmes via Medici TV. All access is free.
For more info: https://library.tauranga.govt.nz/digital-library/streaming
PS: The library also has real books and, in particular, a French novel section.
TV NZ OnDemand : has a number of French movies in their Foreign Language section:
https://www.tvnz.co.nz/categories/foreign-language
Maori Channel : Keep an eye out for their Sunday evening films that are usually repeated at noon on the Monday. They frequently show foreign films and often French ones.
https://www.maoriplus.co.nz/
