French, Indian and Hong-kong films for Hanoian audiences this month

A scene from "Up for Love".

A French movie - “Un homme à la hauteur” (-16) (Up for Love) (France, 2016, 98 mins) – will be screened at L’Espace, 24 Trang Tien, Hanoi on October 20.

The movie is directed by Laurent Tirard, with actors Jean Dujardin, Virginie Efira, and César Domboy. This is a wholly commercial rom-com adaptation of an Argentine hit.
The movie is about Diane - a very beautiful woman.

A brilliant lawyer, she has a sense of humor and a forceful personality. And as she has just put an end to her marriage, which was not making her happy, she is at last free to encounter the man of her life.

As chance doesn’t exist, Diane receives a phone call from a certain Alexandre, who found the mobile phone that she’d lost.

Very quickly, something happens during the phone call. Alexandre is polite, funny, obviously cultivated… Diane is charmed. They quickly arrange a date. But their meeting won’t go at all as planned.

The film will be in French with Vietnamese subtitles.

Ticket price is VND50,000 and VND40,000 for members of L’Espace and students.
Tickets are available at L’Espace.

A scene from “Tanu Weds Manu”.

An Indian movie - “Tanu Weds Manu” – will also come on October 20, at the Indian Cultural Centre, 63 Tran Hung Dao Street, Hanoi.

Manu (R.Madhavan) is a guy from Delhi who has been a working as a doctor in London for the past 12 years. Tanu (Kangana Ranaut) is a girl from Kanpur who is done with her studies at Delhi University.

She does not want an arranged marriage because she is in love with a guy named Raja (Jimmy Shergill) and wants to marry him.

Manu falls in love with Tanu for the first time when he comes to see her in Kanpur. However, she asks him to refuse the arranged marriage and he agrees.

Manu goes to see many girls but discovers that Tanu is the only girl he wants. What happens next and whether they end up together makes up the rest of the story.

The film screening is free of charge and open to all age groups.

Those interested may register online or can directly come to the Indian Cultural Centre from 09:30 to 17:30 (Monday to Friday).

For further details, please contact at tel: 024 3633 2083 or email: culture@indembassy.com.vn.

The same day, a movie from Hong Kong (China) - “Love in a Puff” will be introduced at The Centre for Assistance and Development of Movie Talents, 51 Tran Hung Dao Str (4th floor), Hanoi.

This is a film by Ho-Cheung Pang, starring Shawn Yue and Miriam Yeung. The plot revolves around the love story of Cherie and Jimmy, two smokers who meet at an outdoor smoking area subsequent to the ban of all indoor smoking areas in Hong Kong. The film is classified as a category 3 film in Hong Kong.

Love in a Puff is one of the films which premiered in the 2010 Hong Kong International Film Festival.

A sequel, titled “Love in the Buff” was released on 29 March 2012 with the film set in Beijing, China. Shawn Yue and Miriam Yeung reprised their roles. A third installment, “Love Off the Cuff”, was released on April 27, 2017.

The movie will be in Cantonese with Vietnamese subtitles.

The film screening is for educational purposes and fundraising for Young Cinema Fund of TPD. Donation (at the door) is VND20,000/audience. Doors open at 7 pm and close when the screening room is full. Seats are assigned on first-come-first-served basis.

A Vietnamese film – “Thung Lung Hoang Vang” (Deserted Valley) – will be screened at the Vietnam Feature Films Studio (VFS), No. 4 Thuy Khue, Hanoi on October 26.

“Deserted Valley” is one of the most successful films made by well-known Vietnamese female Director Pham Nhue Giang.

The film is considered a compassionate poem demonstrating the sacrifice of three teachers on their journey to bring education to disadvantaged children of ethnic minorities.

They share the same passion for children, for teaching and for perseverance in overcoming difficulties to keep a local school open in a remote mountainous province in Northern Vietnam.

Apart from portraying their teaching career, the film also demonstrates the feelings and emotions of the teachers who have to spend their youth in remote deserted valleys.

Its poetic beauty also lies in its breathtaking natural scenery with high mountains, vast rice fields and interesting local customs of the ethnic minority people.

With “Deserted Valley”, Director Pham Nhue Giang won the 52st Melbourne International Film Festival’s first FIPRESCI and FCCA (Film Critics Circle of Australia) Prize.

The film was released in 2001 with a duration of 1 hour 29 minutes, and English subtitles.
Donation is VND150,000/person.

Limit: 50 people
Contact: Film group, Filmteam.fvh@gmail.com