The four-day French film festival began here from Friday at Bharat Bhavan. The event is organized by Chhavi series of classical movies with the collaboration of Alliance Francaise de Bhopal, an Indo-French cultural centre, Bhopal.
Two movies were screened before the audience at Antrang Hall, Bharat Bhavan, The Round Up and The Forbidden Games. Notably, the movies being screened at the festival are based on World War II.
While talking to The Pioneer, in-charge of French Film Festival, Prem Shankar Shukla said, “Every time we wanted to bring out things differently and we often endevour to present something new for the movie watchers. So we organised a French Film Festival.”
Elaborating further, he said, “The movies are based on World War II as we wanted people to get acquainted with what happened to people during that time. Moreover, the movies are made by their people so the movie share those emotions and feelings fantastically,” he added further.
The festival began with a lot of fervor with the screening of the movie The Round Up.
The Round Up in French: la Rafle is a 2010 French film directed by Roselyne Bosch and produced by Alain Goldman. The film stars Mélanie laurent, Jean Reno, Sylvie Testud and Gad Elmaleh.
Based on the true story of a young Jewish boy, the film depicts the round up, the mass arrest of Jews by French police who were Nazi accomplices in Paris in July 1942.
Another movie The Forbidden Games was also screened. The Forbidden Games in French: Jeux interdits, is a 1952 French war drama film directed by René Clément and based on François Boyer's novel, Jeux interdits.
It shares the emotional bond between a French orphan girl who is orphaned in Nazi air attacks, befriends the son of a poor farmer and together they came across the realities of death.
It was a mass treat for the movie-watchers of the city as they were exposed to a different world of World War II.