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ART FILM Programs
Faculty of Media Art & Design, Chiang Mai University proudly presents:
Film Space Project

These films are shown in the lecture room on the second floor of the Media Art and Design Building, Chiang Mai University Art Museum, every Saturday at 6.30 p.m. (Admission Free)

While the soccer World Cup is being played in France, two young Tibetan refugees arrive at a remote monastery. Its atmosphere of serene contemplation is somewhat disrupted by soccer fever. Prevented by various circumstances from seeing the Cup finals in a nearby village, the young monks set out to organize the rental of a TV set for the monastery, while the Lama contemplates the challenges of teaching the word of the Buddha in a rapidly changing world.

Georges Bizet's CARMEN has become one of the most popular operas in the history of music. The opera's librettists, Herri Mei and Ludovic Helevy, based their plot on a short novel by Prosper Merimee. Set in Seville's poor quarter, this opera is all about love, hatred, jealously, revenge, erotic obsession, desire and madness.

Set in the period between the fall of French administration and the rise of American aggression, this is the story of a poor rural girl in Saigon who becomes a substitute daughter in a family that has lost its only child. When she grows up, she goes to the home of a new master whom she has loved since a child. Unable to express her desire, she shows her affection in every service she performs for him. Eventually, they cross the boundary between servant and employer and love one another.

NJ is morose: his brother owes him money, his mother is in a coma, his wife suffers a spiritual crisis, and he reconnects with his first love 30 years after he dumped her. His teenage daughter Ting-Ting watches emotions roil in their neighbors' flat and is experiencing the first stirrings of love. His 8-year-old son Yang-Yang is laconic like his dad and pursues truth with the help of a camera.

ALLIANCE FRANCAISE CHIANG MAI
JANUARY 2007 film programme

Friday, January 12, 20h00
ARSENE LUPIN (2004)

Based on the early years of the French classy hero, this movie provides all the fun you can expect from a classical adventure movie. Fights, stunts, exotic places, wicked villains, and characters you will love to hate or chill for...

Friday, January 19, 20h00
LES BRIGADES DU TIGRE (2006)

In 1907, an unprecedented crime wave strikes Belle Epoque France. To counter the criminals of the new-born century, the Interior Minister, George Clemenceau, nicknamed "The Tiger", creates modern special police forces called "les Brigades Mobiles". The French call them "les Brigades du Tigre"...

Friday, January 26, 20h00
UN HOMME ET UNE FEMME (2006)

Jean-Louis Duroc and Anne Gauthier meet accidentally at the boarding school where they visit their children each weekend. He visits his son, she her daughter. She misses her train and he offers her a ride back to Paris in his car. Slowly and cautiously we learn about them as they learn about one another. We learn about their jobs, their former spouses, and other details of their lives that have the movie viewer hoping this man and woman can become a couple...

COMMERCIAL CINEMAS IN CHIANG MAI

Chiang Mai is not without good cinemas for film buffs. Although only two cinema operators are competing to attract the big-screen fans, a wide variety of choices are on offer daily from noon to midnight.

The Vista Entertainment Group

Established about 13 years ago, Vista theaters on the fourth floor of Kad Suan Kaew introduced the people of Chiang Mai to the multiplex theaters and the thrills of Hollywood magic. Of the seven digital-sound theaters in Kad Suan Kaew, Vista 1 - 4 offer a large capacity and big screen, while the rest are of medium and low capacity. Vista Group also has four other large capacity theaters, of which two at the 12 Huay Kaew arcade opposite Kad Suan Kaew also show English-speaking films.

Reservation: phone 053-894415 (Kad Suan Kaew), 053- 404374 (12 Huay Kaew)

Major Cineplex

A now household name for movie theater buffs in Thailand, Major Cineplex offers a relatively new cinema complex on the fourth floor of Central Airport Plaza. Although the theaters are generally of lower capacity, they boast more comfortable seats and superior audio-visual systems.

Reservation: phone 053-283939, or visit http://www.majorcineplex.com for on-line ticketing.