French film fest to begin on Saturday

THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The Kerala Chalachitra Academy will organize a festival of French films, in association with the Alliance Francaise de, Trivandrum, here on June 30 and July 1. Five films that have received accolades in France in 2011 would be screened in the festival which will be held at the Kalabhavan theatre. Entry to the festival will be free.The first among the films to be screened will be ‘A Better Life’, directed by Cedric Kahn. It unveils the horrifying experience of two lovers who risk everything to own a restaurant to fall in a debt trap. ‘Chicken with Plums’, directed by Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud, chronicles the after being of a famous violinist Nasser Ali Khan, one of the most famous musicians of his time. The next film ‘Delicacy’ is an adapted version of David Foenkinos’s book. The film deals with the story of a rebirth and also deals with the theme of love.‘Nobody Else But You’ is the story of Rousseau, a bestselling crime novelist from Paris, who is troubled because of writer’s block and ‘Candice Lecoeur’ a local beauty who, following a hypnosis session, thinks that she is the reincarnation of Marilyn Monroe. The festival schedule is as follows: June 30: ‘A better life’ (screening time, 5pm), ‘Chicken with plums’ (7.30pm). July 1: ‘Delicacy’ (3.30pm), ‘Nobody else but you’ (5.30pm), Polis (7.30 pm).