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July at Idecaf focuses on movies from France, Germany, Vietnam
  • | SGT | June 28, 2011 11:42 AM

Idecaf lines up a moviefest with French, German and Vietnamese films being shown throughout next month.

A scene from the movie The Fox and the Little Girl - Photo: Courtesy of Idecaf

Directed by Etienne Chatiliez, Tanguy gets the ball rolling at 3 p.m. on July 2. Paul and Edith Guetz, a wealthy couple in their fifties, are getting sick of their 28-year-old son Tanguy, who still lives with parents and doesn’t seem too keen to leave his family home. Even though he is brilliant, successful and charming, that doesn’t matter to his parents who are determined to make his life hell in order to get him out of their luxurious apartment.

Trang Noi Day Gieng (Moon at the Bottom of the Well), a Vietnamese movie which won a number of Golden Kite Awards in 2008, will be screened at 3 p.m. on July 16. Hanh it seems has a happy marriage; she is a dutiful wife and teacher in a rural Vietnamese village. Childless, she allows her husband Phuong, a local school headmaster, to marry a second wife so that she can bear him a baby. But in the small village their secret is impossible to keep for long and they decide to separate. Following the breakdown of the marriage, Hanh loses her grip on reality and begins doubting everything. In her depression, she finds an ideal man from the afterworld.

Vincent Garenq’s Comme Les Autres stars Lambert Wilson, Pilar Lopez de Ayala, Pascal Elbe and Anne Brochet. The French affair is a story of two gay men who fail to adopt a child. They set up a deal with one of them marrying a Columbian woman so that she can live in France but in return she has to bear a child for her husband and his boyfriend. It will be shown at 3 p.m. on July 30.

Roman De Gare is about how people meet through destiny. Judith Ralitzer is an attractive woman and a successful writer who is searching for a character for a new book. She happens to meet a serial killer who has just escaped from jail. Huguette, a stylist at a large hairdressing salon in Paris, will help change their destinies. This film is on at 3 p.m. on July 23.

The Fox and the Little Girl stars Isabelle Carre, Bertille Noel-Bruneau and Thomas Laliberte. One autumn morning a little girl is walking around and she sees a fox. She is spellbound by this intriguing creature and forgets her fear and approaches the fox. Immediately, the barrier between the animal and the little girl disappears as they bond immediately and have a fabulous friendship. Thanks to the fox, the little girl discovers a wild and mysterious world she never knew existed. It will be aired at 3 p.m. on July 9.

In July, a German romantic comedy by Fatith Akin will be shown at 7.30 p.m. on July 12.

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