Let\'s take a look next Tuesday at the cinema debut of the singer/actress Vanessa Paradis, a controversial role performed at the tender age of 16! This is the kind of film only the French could make, especially in the 70s and 80s....aahhhh, will these days ever return?

And once again, this is a film that is well known in France, but is almost totally unknown everywhere else.

So hope to see you there....

- Jeffrey

MONDAY SEPTEMBER 7

NOCHE BLANCHE (1989)
Directed by Jean-Claude Brisseau
88 minutes
In French with English subtitles

This notorious little film features the acting debut of a very young Vanessa Paradis (the famous French singer, wife of Johnny Depp)....and she won a Cesar award for the haunting performance she delivered for the main character of the film. The film is directed by Jean-Claude Brisseau, a director well known for his special take on philosophical-erotic cinema.

In this film a sizzling Vanessa Paradis plays a moody seventeen year old named Mathilde who has no parents. She rarely shows up to class, and when she does, it appears as if she is just wasting her time. In a way she is a screwed-up wild child who is actually too intelligent for the classroom. A high school teacher of philosophy discovers this complicated pupil, a girl with a cynical attitude, but who at the same time has a lucid view of the world. The teacher gets involved in helping her to follow the curriculum of her study, but he becomes fascinated by her and they fall passionately in love. But of course they must keep their affair a secret from both his wife and the school.

This is a wonderful gem of a film about the theme of impossible love. And Paradis is absolutely transcendental in her debut, perhaps better than anything she has done ever since. The film is tender, gut-wrenching, sexy, sensitive and transgressive.

\"A poetic insight into taboo sex.\"

CINEMANITA @ De Nieuwe Anita
Frederik Hendrikstraat 111
Doors open at 19:30
The film starts at 20:30 sharp



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