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PETER PAN

Peter Pan is the boy who won’t age, who lives in Neverland with other ageless kids, the Lost Boys. Tinkerbelle, a fairy, gives three children - Wendy, John, and Michael Darling - the ability to fly; and soon they’re off to Neverland, where they’re soon in battle with the evil Captain Hook and his band of pirates.

COLD MOUNTAIN

Directed by Academy Award - winner Anthony Minghella (“The English Patient”, “The Talented Mr. Ripley”) and based on Charles Frazier’s best-selling Civil War novel of the same name, COLD MOUNTAIN tells the story of Inman (Jude Law), a wounded confederate soldier who is on a perilous journey home to his mountain community, hoping to reunite with his pre-war sweetheart, Ada (Nicole Kidman). In his absence, Ada struggles to survive, and revive her father’s farm with the help of intrepid young drifter Ruby (Renee Zellweger).

AUA

The real film freak can get him/herself to AUA on Rajdamnern Road, just up from Pratu Thapae. There, in Chiang Mai’s coolest, most convenient little English-language library, you can take your pick of close to 200 of the choicest videos going. You want Five Easy Pieces, Trainspotting, Leaving Las Vegas, Das Boot, Apocalypse Now, La Haine, Mon Oncle, Men in Black, The Third Man, Taxi Driver, Wild Strawberries, Cyrano de Bergerac, Blade Runner, The Simpsons, The Bicycle Thieves, etc. etc. etc? You do? Well, they got it. And for a smallish charge you can either take it home or see it on the premises. And now - DVDs too!

ALLIANCE FRANCAISE CHIANG MAI
FEBRUARY 2004 film programme

Tuesday, January 6 - Friday, January 9:
A DOUBLE TOUR (1959)

A beautiful property in Provence. Henri is unfaithful to his wife Thérèse with beautiful Léda. Thérèse endures this situation from fear of a scandal. Their son Richard is a bit unstable but has a passion for music. Their daughter Elisabeth is engaged to Lazlo, a sort of anarchist. A quarrel breaks out between Henri and Thérèse…

Tuesday, January 13 - Friday, January 16:
UNE AFFAIRE DE FEMMES (1988)

During the Second World War, Marie helps a neighbour with an abortion. From then on she makes this her trade until she is denounced to the police. In Vichy France, the family is sacred and no pity shown to “baby killers”…

Tuesday, January 20 - Friday, January 23:
MADAME BOVARY (1991)

A famous Gustave Flaubert novel adapted yet again to the silver screen by Chabrol after Renoir, 1933, Minnelli, 1949. Emma is a country girl who has married out of gratitude a doctor who has cured her father. Romantic and dreaming of luxury, she becomes quickly bored by the monotony of their lives. Having met a dashing but penniless aristocrat, she becomes his mistress…

Tuesday, January 27 - Friday, January 30
M. KLEIN (1976)

In occupied France during the Second World War, an antique collector of Alsatian descent, Mr. Klein, is mistakenly taken for a Jew and mercilessly tracked down by the Gestapo…