The French Film Festival is evoking huge response by the movie-watchers of the city. The spectators are given opportunities to watch impressive movies made on WW II.
The festival began from Friday with the association of Alliance Francaise de Bhopal. The movies are being screened at Antrang Hall, Bharat Bhavan. On the third day of the festival two French movies, The last Metro and Bon Voyage were screened on Sunday.
The third day of the festival began with screening the movie The last Metro, in French le Dernier Metro It is a 1980 drama film made by les Films du Carrosse, written and directed by the French filmmaker François Truffaut, and starring Catherine Deneuve and Gérard Depardieu.
The film is set during the time of the French occupation and demonstrates passive resistance through culture in the story of a small Parisian theatre surviving censorship, antisemitism and material shortages to emerge triumphant at the war’s end.
Another movie Bon Voyage was also screened on the same day. It is 2003 movie directed by Jean-Paul Rappeneau starring Isabelle Adjani and Gérard Depardieu. It is a story of an actress, a writer, a student, and a government worker band together in an effort to escape Paris as the Nazis move into the city.