Alliance Française de Bhopal, the Indo-French cultural centre, with the support of French Embassy in India, organised the screening of a French film “Camille Redouble” under its programme “Ciné-Club” on Friday here and Indore centre.
Notably, Alliance Française de Bhopal always organises different events for the students. Under its programme Cine Club, Alliance Francaise usually screens French movies of different genres with a motive not only to make the students enjoy but also making them familiar with the language.
The story of the movie revolves around a woman Camille, who magically lives her young life all over again adding more fun to her life span and erases the mistakes she did. Camille was only sixteen and still in high school when she fell in love with Eric, another student. They later married and a child and were happy for a while. But now twenty-five years have passed and Eric leaves her for a younger woman. Bitter and desperate Camille drinks so much liquor at a New Year Eve’s party that she falls into an ethylic coma and she finds herself propelled into her own past! Camille is sixteen again when she wakes up this morning, her parents are not dead anymore and she must go to school, where she will meet her schoolmates and, of course, Eric. Is she going to fall for him again and be miserable twenty-five years laterIJ Or will she avoid him with the result never having her beloved daughterIJ
Directed by Noemie lvovsky the movie was released in 2012. The students enjoyed the show a lot. As it was a comedy drama genre it made the audience curious for what will happen next.