[Reader-list] October Ciné Club : Animation movies

[rohitrellan at aol.in]

Ciné-club: October 2011
Film Screenings
M. L. Bhartia Auditorium

For the month of October, our cine-club has decided to bring animation films; the idea is to introduce to the children the real magic of happiness.

Friday, 07 October 2011
10.00 am & 7.00pm
L’Illusionniste / The Illusionist
Director: Sylvain Chomet
2010 – 1hr 20min


At the end of the 50's, the music-hall is experiencing a revolution. The phenomenal success of Rock has young people attracting large crowds, whilst the traditional players - acrobats, jugglers, ventriloquists - are considered out of fashion. Our protagonist, the illusionist, establishes that he now belongs to a group of fading artists. Contract offers are becoming more and rarer, and so he decides to leave the big Parisian halls with his doves and his rabbit, and he tries his luck in London. But the situation is the same there. He resigns himself to working in small theatres, garden parties, cafes, and then in the pub of a village on the west coast of Scotland, where he meets Alice, a young innocent girl who is going to change his life forever.



Friday, 14 October 2011
10.00 am & 7.00pm
Le Chat du Rabbin / The Rabbi’s Cat
Director: Joann Sfar and Antoine Delesvaux
2011- 1hr 40min

Algiers, 1920, Rabbi Sfar Zlabia lives with her daughter, a noisy parrot, and a mischievous cat that eats the parrot and begins to tell lies. Now rabbi wants him away. But the cat, crazy in love with his little mistress, is desperate to stay with her… even to do her bar Mitzvah! Rabbi wants to teach his cat the basics of the Mosaic Law! Rabbi gets to learn through a letter that to keep his post, he must submit a dictation in French. To help him, his cat commits the sacrilege to invoke the Lord. Rabbi succeeds but the cat does not speak anymore. It is treated again as an ordinary animal. His only friend will soon be a Russian painter in search of an imaginary Jerusalem where Jews would live black. He manages to convince Rabbi, a former soldier of the Tsar, a singer and the cat with him to the colonial road...



Friday, 21 October 2011
10.00 am & 7.00pm
Les triplettes de Belleville / Triplets of Belleville
Director: Sylvain Chomet
2003- 1hr 20min

Adopted by his grandmother, Madame Souza, Champion is a lonely little boy. Noticing that the lad is never happier than on a bicycle, Madame Souza puts him through a rigorous training process. Years go by and Champion becomes worthy of his name. Now he is ready to enter the world-famous cycling race the Tour de France. However during this cycling contest, two mysterious men in black kidnap Champion. Madame Souza and her faithful dog Bruno set out to rescue him. Their quest takes them across the ocean to a giant megalopolis called Belleville where they encounter the renowned Triplets of Belleville, three eccentric females; musical stars from the '30s who decide to take Madame Souza and Bruno under their wing. Thanks to Bruno's brilliant sense of smell, the brave duos are soon on to Champion's trail. But will they succeed in beating the devilish plans of the evil French mafia?