San Diego State University presents

March 14-17

 

Tournées: 
The 2nd annual Festival of New French and Francophone Films

 

 

LA TRILOGIE THE TRILOGY
1 | CAVALE ON THE RUN

Director: Lucas Belvaux
Screenplay: Lucas Belvaux

Cast:
Cécile Costes: Ornella Muti
Alain Coste : François Morel
Jeanne: Catherine Frot
Bruno le Roux: Lucas Belvaux
Agnès Manise: Dominique Blanc
Pascal Manise: Gilbert Melki

Running time: 117 minutes
Year of production: Belgium/France, 2002
Rating: Restricted (mature content)
Gauge: 35mm(color
)

March 14
7pm
Montezuma Hall
Aztec Center
FREE 

Though technically sleek and assured, On the Run offers much more than the exercise in style that weakens so much contemporary neo-noir. The movie is an unflinchingly intelligent probe into far-left monomania and the brutish power of ideology divorced from ordinary empathy.
 Ella Taylor | LA
Weekly

 

 

 

TOURNEES is co-sponsored by
FACE, the Alliances Française de San Diego, CASE/SDSU, the College of Arts and Letters/SDSU and
French and Francophone Studies/SDSU

CAVALE

 

In The Trilogy, three different but parallel stories unfold revealing the lives of a husband and wife, a policeman and his drug-addicted wife, and a prison escapee and his friends. The characters wander in and out of three films where we see them switch from leading men and women to supporting actors. The three films, all of different genres (the first is a thriller, the second a comedy and the third a melodrama), provide the same action from different angles and perspectives.

Part.1 In this noir-thriller, Bruno, an extreme-left revolutionary, has escaped from prison and contacts his former accomplice Jeanne, now a teacher and a mother, in order to restart his political activities. However, the police are on his tracks and for Pascal, the capture of Bruno would help him regain his credibility. While on the hunt for Bruno, Pascal also has to care for his drug-addicted wife Agnès. In her search for drugs, Agnès stumbles on Bruno. He trades her drugs for a hide-out in a mountain chalet owned by Agnès’ friend Cécile

 

 

 

Photo: Magnolia Pictures

 

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