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Believe it or not, but even though the weather has been snowy lately, spring has finally come. At least, the French one – the French Spring 2012 film festival will be screened in Kyiv. For the full schedule, check the Kyiv Post Going Out Guide and www.kino.ukr.net/cinema/kiev/

UNFORGIVABLE (IMPARDONNABLES)
Drama
France 2011, 111’
Language: French with Ukrainian subtitles
Directed by Andre Techine
April 5 at 7 p.m.
Kyiv

When an aging Gallic novelist Francis comes to Venice, he is looking only for a new plot, but finds real love. He meets young bisexual Judith, a former model, and falls for her so wholeheartedly that in a year they are married.

When Alice, Francis’ daughter, comes to meet her dad, she confesses to her new stepmother that she hasn’t seen her father so happy for a long time. The story might seem quite idyllic, but suddenly Alice disappears – goes out with a handsome boyfriend and never comes back.


THE ART OF LOVE (L’ART D’AIMER)

Comedy
France 2011, 85’
Language: French with Ukrainian subtitles
Directed by Emmanuel Mouret
April 6 at 7 p.m.
Kyiv

Emmanuel Mouret is often compared to the legendary American director Woody Allen, as his humor, as well as Allen’s, is smart, romantic and neurotic at the same time, though in a completely French way.

The Art of Love is a mix of Paris love stories that don’t even intersect, but all show how bourgeois play with their emotional lives.

Among others, you will see two girlfriends, busy to fix the miserable sexual life of one of them, a love-starved man, trying to seduce his neighbor and a seasoned couple where the woman is overcome by desire for other men.


THE FIELD OF ENCHANTMENT (LA CLE DES CHAMPS)

Drama
France 2011, 81’
Language: French with Ukrainian subtitles
Directed by Claude Nuridsany, Marie Pérennou
April 7 at 7 p.m.
Kyiv

Every child has a magical power to see monsters or knights in the simple shadow of the tree, to transform a pencil into a wand and to build a castle from pillows and blankets.

A movie’s main characters, a silent dreamy boy and a charming little girl in a red dress, find magic in a deserted pond.

Seen through children’s eyes and imaginations, it becomes their kingdom, full of creatures born from their dreams and nightmares.


THE MINISTER (L’EXERCICE DE L’ETAT)

Drama
France 2011, 112’
Language: French with Ukrainian subtitles
Directed by Pierre Schöller
April 8 at 7 p.m.
Kyiv

Bertrand St-Jean, a minister for transport, gets awaked in the middle of the night with an emergency phone call – nine people, including seven children, have died in a bus accident. He doesn’t have any choice other than head to the place, where the tragedy has happened.

Stuck somewhere between politics and the real life, St-Jean gets lost in the interviews, public affairs, and drinking with his driver instead of spending time with his wife.