Language: French – Wimbledon Film Club

Three Colours: Blue

Three Colours Blue is the first part of Kieslowski’s trilogy examining the meaning to contemporary French society of the concepts behind the three national colours blue, white, and red.

Professional couple Georges (Auteuil) and Anne (Binoche) appear to have it all, but when they start to receive secretly filmed footage of their movements as well as disturbing drawings, their cooling relationship and comfortable life begin to unravel.

Kirikou and the Sorceress

omewhere in Africa south of the Sahara, Kirikou is born.

Tell No One

In this taut thriller, the case of a woman’s (Marie-Josee Croze) brutal murder is reopened years after the event and her husband (Francois Cluzet) becomes prime suspect.

The Singer

In the multi award-winning The Singer (aka When I Was a Singer, “Quand j’étais chanteur”) Gerard Depardieu returns to excellent form following a few mediocre roles where people were being to wonder how bettable he was at the box office.

Persepolis

This Oscar-nominated, multi-award-winning animation tells the story of the coming of age of a young Iranian girl, Marji.

Caramel

Caramel delightfully weaves together a comedy about the daily lives of five Lebanese women.

The Class

The leading actor in The Class, Bégaudeau, is a man of many parts novelist, actor, screenplay writer and former teacher.

I’ve Loved You So Long

In Claudel’s story of estrangement from society, Juliette (Scott Thomas) has served a term in prison, we can guess this much from her institutionalised appearance in the opening sequences.