Feel good French movies

Featured in this year’s French Film Festival, a much-awaited annual event by movie enthusiasts, are “feel good” movies, according to French Ambassador Gilles Garachon.

“Lots of love stories, romantic comedies,” he said adding that “We need that.”

So true. With all the horror stories we are getting from newspapers and television, we need a good laugh.

Last Monday, we watched a romantic comedy “20 ans d’écart” (“It Boy”) about an uptight editor of a fashion magazine and her transformation when she met a refreshing 20-year old student.

We hope to catch up with “Quai d’Orsay,” a fun film on French diplomacy.

The festival screening, at the Greenbelt 3 cinemas in Makati City,started last Monday and will last up to June 15. Tickets are for P100 only.

Other featured films are “La Vénus à la fourrure” (“Venus in Fur”), “Mon âme par toi guérie” (“One of a Kind”), “Une autre vie” (“Lovers”), “Amour et turbulences” (“Love is in the Air”), “Les beaux jours” (“Bright Days Ahead”), “L’Écume des jours” (“Mood Indigo”), and “Situation amoureuse : C’est compliqué” (“Relationship Status: It’s Complicated”).

The festival underscores the recent signing of a landmark film cooperation deal between the Film Development Council of the Philippines (FDCP) and its counterpart in France, the Centre national du cinema et de l’Image animée (CNC).