The third day of the four-day-long French Film Festival, organized by Sathyam Cinemas in association with Alliance Francaise, saw films about spirits and surrealism dominate and mesmerize the audience with their spell-binding narratives.
The Stone Council, starring the well-known Monica Bellucci, was a mishmash of the occult and personal fears. A few days before his seventh birthday, Liu-San, Bellucci’s screen son, is kidnapped. Ready to do anything to save her son, Laura throws herself body and soul into an adventure at the edge of the strange and supernatural. The tightly-woven thriller had many of the audience in shock.
What followed next was a film that made everyone wonder at the creative genius behind such a venture. Yes, The Science of Sleep was an adventure that took the audience into the dreams of a person and had them in splits. His vivid dreams are a compensation for the dull life he leads. Before his cardboard cameras, he invents a television program about dreams. One day, he meets Stéphanie, his neighbour, and falls in love with her. Initially charmed by this astonishing young man's strange behaviour, it later scares her away, so Stéphanie rejects him. What follows? A humorous and highly inventive film that takes filmmaking to a higher plane.
The response from the crowds was overwhelming just like the first two days. The festival concludes today with the screening of two masterpieces, Crossed Tracks and Them.
