European Union Film Festival

Celebrating 20 years of EU Film Festival in India

                  Chennai - 31 March - 10 April 201 @ Alliance Françoise until 4th, & @ Goethe Institute

31 March 2015

Pizzas (Latvia) - Boring - Two youngsters working in a pizza bakery want to change their fortune

Jappeloup (France) - Interesting - Failures & success of an equestrian rider with Jappeloup, the tiny horse

1 April 2015

Go, Eddy (Belgium) -could not watch

The foreigner (Bulgaria) - Interesting - RomCom - A French accidentally falls in love with a Bulgarian villager.  How he traces her and the consequences

2 April

Vis-à-vis (Croatia) - Boring - Movie Director takes the actor to an island - their clash & bondage

The Boy upside Down (Finland) - Good, but end confusing - A boy finds the truth behind the car accident death of his parents - over speeding or unknown factor?

3 April

Committed (Cyprus) - Boring - Said to be a romcom, it was boring. A girl runs away from marriage and a boy undecided about proposing, meet. Just two characters, travelling.

The Don Juans (Czech) - Interesting - The happenings behind Operas - 3 generation of girls left in lurch

4 April

The Keeper of Lost Causes (Denmark) - Thrilling - The case of a missing lady politician is opened and how she is traced.

A place called Home (Greece) - Interesting - A lady professor of cardiology lives away from her Greek father in London - goes to meet him - he lives with his first wife's daughter - secrets revealed - his palatial manor is turned into a school, as per his last wish

5 April

Living Images (Estonia) - Good - In the backdrop of WW II and cinema & movie hall, how an opera singer learns the true love of a movie operator and lives with him in the same house which her grandson wants to sell

The Ambassador to Bern (Hungary) - Thrilling - The Hungarian ambassador in Bern (Swiss) is held hostage by two Hungarian immigrants to seek apology for killing of their leader

6 April

The Symmetry of Butterfly (Luxembourg) - Did not see

Shanghai Gypsy (Slovenia) - Interesting - The life of three generation of Gypsies, who migrate to Italy an set up a village called Shanghai and the fall thereafter

7 April

Soof (Netherlands) - A caterer blooms in business, thanks to her choreographer friend - how she is back to her family

The Last Sentence (Sweden) - Good -  The life of journalist Segerstedt who alerted the Swedish people about the threat of fascism in 1930s. His love with his friend's wife, etc.

8 April  2015

The Candidate (Slovak Rep.) - Thrilling - Estranged wife of ad business magnet tries to trap him by challenging to make an ordinary man as the president, through election campaign.  A false shooting of the candidate during polling turns to be a real one. He wins, but dies as president for a few minutes.

Balcanieves (Snowhite) B&W (Spain) - Interesting - Female bullfighter. Ill treated by her stepmother (fataher is paralysed in a bull flight), escapes, meets dwarf bullfighters - poisoned by stepmother and dies after a victorious bullfight, her first & last.

9 April

A woman's revenge (Portugal) - Could not see

IDA (Poland) B&W - Inserting - About to take the vow of a Nun, Ida goes to meet her aunt - learns the secret of her Jew lineage and her parents death - enjoys life for a short while and returns to become a nun

10 April

The age of Cannibals (Germany) Interesting - Five-star consultants holed up in a strife-torn Nigeria -

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