15 February 2014

Classical Music

upshaw. elgar and grieg

A ravishing, enchanting concert that challenged and left one thrilled – what a way to start this year’s season! It was a delicious mix of works by contemporary composers and standard concert favourites performed under the energetic and passionately committed …

French Film Festival 2014, Theatre

jabbeloup

JAPPELOUP  tells the story of an Olympic champion show jumper who scored spectacular success in Seoul.

Written and starring Guillaume Canet as Pierre Durand the equestrian who ditched a career at the bar to raise the bar of elite steed …

Cinema, French Film Festival 2014

michael kohlhass

A cross between Robin Hood and Braveheart, MICHAEL KOHLHAAS is a bleak, brooding and brutal tale of 16th century feudalism.

At his most enigmatic photogenic best, Mads Mikkelsen plays Michael Kohlhaas, an honest horse trader continually cheated by a …

Cinema, French Film Festival 2014

mobius

Apart from his Oscar winning performance in The Artist, Jean Dujardin is possibly best known for his series of spy spoofs starring as secret agent OSS117.

In MOBIUS he shrugs off the spoof and plays a spook for real, a …

Cinema, French Film Festival 2014

under the rainbow

A fractured fairytale is a fair way to describe UNDER THE RAINBOW, a multi layered fable interwoven with strands of Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty.

Flic opens with a dreamy blue dream sequence narrated by the dreamer, …

Cinema, French Film Festival 2014

it boy

IT BOY, a film turning on the older woman/younger man scenario, is a fizzy, frothy confection starring the gorgeous Virginie Afira as Alice, a nearly 40 career woman, divorced single mum.

She’s been in cold blooded training to break the …

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