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HOMAGE
TO ALIAIN CORNEAU
A specialist
in detective films after Meiville, Alain Corneau made "France
Societe Anonyme" (1975), "Police Python 357" (1976),
"La Menace" (1977), "Serie Noire" (1979), "Le
Choix des Armes" (1981), "Le Mome" (1986) and "
Le Cousin" (1997), films noirs remarkably filmed and interpreted
by Montand, Signoret, Deneuve, Depardieu, Bouquet and Dewaere. With
"Fort Saganne" in 1984, he turned to historic films and
made a magnificent fresco in which photography and actors bring
to life the grandfather of Louis Gardel.
A great music
lover, Corneau made 2 films in which music plays a main role: "Tous
les Matins du Monde" revealed the viola de gamba and the music
of Marin Marais to the general public; in 1995, "Le Nuoveau
Monde" depicted life in a small provincial town as it discovers
the American style of living and the fascination jazz has for an
adolescent who certainly resembles the director. Alain Corneau's
most original and most personal film is certainly resembies the
director. Alain Corneau's most original and most personal film is
certainly "Nocturne Indien", (1989), a bewitching search
in mysterious India by a young man who is looking for a lost friend
as well as for his own identity.
In 2001, "Le
Prince du Pacifique" shows that Corneau can also direct adventure
films and that this great classic filmmaker has more than one string
to his bow.
TOUS LES
MATINS DU MONDE
(France/1991/Color/114 mins)
Director : Alain Corneau
Screening Time: 6:30 pm on 1st November 2001
Venue: Sri Sarathi Preview Theatre, Ameerpet
In the 17th
Century, after the death of his dearly beloved wife, Monsieur de
Sainte-Colombe, a moralist who has retired to the country, takes
refuge in music. With his daughters, Madeleine and Toinette, he
gives viola de gamba concerts that attract the nobility. Yet, he
refuses an offer to go to Versailles and rejoin the king's court,
Reluctantly he accepts young Marin Marais as a pupil. Very gifted,
but with a more brilliant concept of music, Marais becomes Madeleine's
lover and then abandons her to go to the court. Madeleine commits
suicide. Monsieur de Sainte-Colombe withdraws even further into
solitude. However, before he dies, he is reconciled with Marin Marais.
LE COUSIN
(France/1997/Color/112 mins)
Director : Alain Comeau
Screening Time: 6:30 pm on 2nd November 2001
Venue: Sri Sarathi Preview Theatre, Ameerpet
Under investigation
by Judge Lamber for drug dealing with a "cousin" named
Nounours, a police inspector commits suicide.
A colleague,
Gerard, ruthless at his job to the point of neglecting his family,
takes over the case. Nounours is a good informer and hard to do
without. Thanks to his tips, the bandits are arrested. But Judge
Lambert continues her inquiry between the police and the "cousins".
Gerard is told
to stop seeing Nounours. But Nounours has promised to help him nail
some big drug dealers.
FORT SAGANNE
(France/1984/Color/180 mins)
Director : Alain Comeau
Screening Time: 6:30 pm on 3rd November 2001
Venue: Sri Sarathi Preview Theatre, Ameerpet
Charles Saganne,
a son of peasants, is an officer who has risen up from the ranks.
In 1911, as a young lieutenant tired of garrison life, he leaves
France for the great adventure of the Sahara. He fails in love with
the young and lovely Madeleine de St-llete. Then, under the orders
of Col. Dubreuilh, he covers himself with glory in the south Sahara.
On a mission to Paris, he has a brief affaire with Louise Tissot,
a novelist. After pacifying the desert, he marries Madeleine. Back
in France, he dies soon afterwards in the trenches during the war
of 1914-1918. In 1922, Col. Dubreuilh names a fort in the middle
of the desert after him.
SERIE NOIRE
(France/1979/Color/110 mins)
Director : Alain Comeau
Screening Time: 6:30 pm on 4th November 2001
Venue: Sri Sarathi Preview Theatre, Ameerpet
How Franck
Poupart, a door-to-door salesman in a rundown suburb, becomes a
thief and a murderer almost without knowing it. How a catastrophic
run of bad luck began the day Franck Poupart pushed open the door
of a dilapidated house near the suburb of Creteil.
NOCTURNE
INDIEN
(France/1959/Color/110 mins)
Director : Alain Comeau
Screening Time: 6:30 pm on 5th November 2001
Venue: Sri Sarathi Preview Theatre, Ameerpet
A young man
arrives in Bombay to look for a friend who has disappeared. He has
very few clues. From a seedy hotel to a hospital to a hospital ward,
from a Portuguese convent to a theosophical society, from Bombay
to Goa by way of Madras, he tries to rediscover his itinerary. He
does not find his friend but perhaps he is only looking of his own
identity.
POLICE PYTHON
357
(France/1975/Color/125 mins)
Director : Alain Comeau
Screening Time: 6:30 pm on 6th November 2001
Venue: Sri Sarathi Preview Theatre, Ameerpet
To fight gangster,
a non-conformist policeman creates a "parallel" squad
that uses gang methods. He thus discovers the organizer of the kidnapping
of 2 Mafia bosses by 2 phony policemen. A new type of film noir:
the cop turns gangsters' methods against themselves: torture and
murder.
How to obtain
passes:
You can pay
a quarterly membership of Rs 250/- and can watch all the films for
free. The brochures of the forthcoming films list would be sent
to you by snail mail. You can enroll yourself as a member at Hari
Hara Kala Bhavan during the festival time.
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