French films to entertain Da Nang residents this July
VOV.VN - French Cinema Rendez-vous, a new weekly event which will introduce French cinema's richness and diversity with a different film every Saturday, is set to start on July 8 at METIZ Cinema in Da Nang City.
Four films subtitled in English and Vietnamese will be screened at the event, which is scheduled to last through to July 29. The screenings will start at 5 p.m. every Saturday, with ticket costing VND75,000.
Fire Training Secrets will be the curtain raiser which tells the story of two best friends Jean-Gab and Manu. The pair see a giant fly stuck in the trunk of a car while they walk along the road. They suddenly come up with the idea of catching the fly and training it to make money.
Meanwhile, The Umbrellas of Cherbourg will be introduced to local audiences on July 15. The musical romantic drama film written and directed by Jacques Demy, with music by Michel Legrand, won the Palme d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival in 1964.
Furthermore, Bed with Victoria, a 2016 French romantic comedy-drama film directed by Justine Triet, is set be screened on July 22, having been previously screened in the International Critics’ Week section at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. Efira received a Magritte Award for Best Actress at the seventh Magritte Awards for her role in the film.
The last film to make the list is The Big Bad Fox and Other Tales, a 2017 French/Belgian animated anthology comedy film that will be unveiled in Da Nang on July 29. The film premiered at the Annecy International Animated Film Festival on June 15, 2017, and was later released by StudioCanal in France on June 21.