Ciné-Club - Film Club

The Alliance Française presents a different way to practise your French. Once a month, a French film (with English subtitles) will be selected and screened, to practise your listening and comprehension skills. There may also be a discussion following the film.

Who: Free for members and students of the Alliance Française d'Adelaïde
Where: Alliance Française d'Adelaïde, 319 Young Street, Wayville
When: The next session will be on Friday 14 February from 6pm

Please contact Reception if you have any questions.

2020

Février

Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain

Friday, 14 February - 6pm
Alliance Française, 319 Young St, Wayville

Ciné-club returns this Valentine's Day with a special screening of the 2001 French romantic comedy film, Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain, which tells the story of a shy waitress who decides to change the lives of those around her for the better.

Subtitles in English

2018

Novembre

Les Choristes

Wednesday, 21 November - 6:15pm
Alliance Française, 319 Young St, Wayville

For this month's Ciné-club, we will be screening Les Choristes, a 2004 French drama about Pierre Morhange, a widely successful orchestra conductor, who returns to France when his mother dies. He reminisces about his childhood inspirations when he and his former classmate Pépinot read the diary of their old music teacher Clément Mathieu.

Subtitles in French

Octobre

3 cœurs

Wednesday, 24 October - 6:15pm
Alliance Française, 319 Young St, Wayville

For this month's Ciné-club, we will be screening 3 cœurs, a 2014 French drama about Marc and Sylvie, who meet and fall in love, only to miss each other at their next meeting. Marc then falls in love with Sophie, not knowing that she is Sylvie's sister.

Subtitles in English

Septembre

2 automnes 3 hivers

Wednesday, 19 September - 6:15pm
Alliance Française, 319 Young St, Wayville

For this month's Ciné-club, we will be screening 2 automnes 3 hivers, a 2013 French rom-com about Arman, 33, who is ready to make a change and starts running in the park, literally bumping into Amélie.

Subtitles in English

Août

Les Interdits

Wednesday, 15 August - 6:15pm
Alliance Française, 319 Young St, Wayville

For this month's Ciné-club, we will be screening Les Interdits, a 2013 French drama which follows two cousins in 1979 Ukraine as they secretly arrange to meet up with refuseniks.

Subtitles in English

Juin

Les garçons et Guillaume, à table!

Wednesday, 20 June - 6:15pm
Alliance Française, 319 Young St, Wayville

For this month's Ciné-club, we will be screening Les garçons et Guillaume, à table!, a 2013 French coming-of-age comedy which follows French comedian, Guillaume Gallienne, as a boy as he develops his own identity and his relationship with his mother.

Mai

Quai d'Orsay

Wednesday, 30 May - 6:15pm
Alliance Française, 319 Young St, Wayville

For this month's Ciné-club, we will be screening Quai d'Orsay, a 2013 French comedy which takes look at the French Foreign Ministry under Dominique de Villepin as France, in co-operation with Germany, opposes the 2003 Invasion of Iraq.

Mars

The Connection

Wednesday, 21 March - 6.15pm
Alliance Française, 319 Young St, Wayville

For this month's Ciné-club, we will be screening The Connection, a 2014 French action crime thriller inspired by the events of the French Connection in the 1970s, starring Jean Dujardin as police magistrate Pierre Michel and Gilles Lellouche as Gaëtan "Tany" Zampa, a drug gang ringleader.

Février

Le Hérisson

Wednesday, 14 February - 6.15pm
Alliance Française, 319 Young St, Wayville

For this month's Ciné-club, we will be screening Le Hérisson, a 2009 French film about Paloma, an 11-year-old girl unhappily living a life of luxury in Paris with her family. Only after developing a friendship with Mrs. Michel, the gruff-looking reclusive concierge, and Mr. Ozu, a Japanese widower, the two like-minds show Paloma a lovelier side of life than she originally thought possible.

2017

Novembre

Jules et Jim

Wednesday, 22 November - 6pm
Alliance Française, 319 Young St, Wayville

For this month's Ciné-club, we will be screening Jules et Jim, a 1962 French romantic drama by François Truffaut. Set around the time of the First World War, the film follows the tragic love triangle between French Bohemian Jim, his shy Austrian friend Jules, and Jules' girlfriend Catherine, played by Jeanne Moreau.

Octobre

Les parapluies de Cherbourg

Wednesday, 25 October - 6pm
Alliance Française, 319 Young St, Wayville

For this month's Ciné-club, we will be screening Les parapluies de Cherbourg, a 1964 romantic musical film starring Catherine Deneuve and Nino Castelnuovo, which tells the story of Geneviève, who works in a tiny and struggling umbrella boutique, and Guy, a handsome young auto mechanic, in the coastal town of Cherbourg in Normandy, France.

Septembre

Camille Redouble

Wednesday, 20th September - 6pm
Alliance Française, 319 Young St, Wayville

For this month's Ciné-club, we will be screening Camille Redouble, a 2012 French drama film which tells the story of Camille who is transported back to 1985 to her teenage self after she consults a quirky clockmaker to fix her watch.

Août

Jappeloup

Wednesday, 23th August - 6pm
Alliance Francaise, 319 Young St, Wayville

For this month's Ciné-club, we will be screening Jappeloup, a 2013 French film which tells the story of Pierre Durand, Jr., who gives up on his career as a lawyer and turns to professional show jumping in the early 1980s.

Juillet

La Famille Bélier

Wednesday, 26th July - 6pm
Alliance Francaise, 319 Young St, Wayville

For this month's Ciné-club, we will be screening La Famille Bélier, a 2014 comedy-drama which tells the story of sixteen-year-old Paula, an interpreter for her deaf parents and brother. When a music teacher discovers her gift for singing, they encourage Paula to participate in a prestigious singing contest in Paris, but this decision would mean leaving her family and taking her first steps towards adulthood.

Juin

9 Mois Ferme

Wednesday, 14th June - 6pm
Alliance Francaise, 319 Young St, Wayville

Ciné-club has returned! This month, we will be screening 9 Mois Ferme, a 2012 French comedy which tells the story of Ariane Felder, a pregnant woman who is surprised to learn that the father of her child is a criminal. Ariane, who does not remember anything, tries to understand what happened.