Ciné club - “Eugénie Grandet”
Join us at the Alliance Française for a Francophone movie night as we watch Eugénie Grandet, a historical drama based on the novel of the same name by famous nineteenth-century French novelist Honoré de Balzac!
Felix Grandet tyrannically rules the humble provincial house where he lives with his wife and daughter Eugenie who lead a precarious and joyless existence alongside him. The sudden visit of Grandet’s nephew, an idle and bankrupt Parisian dandy, awakens the tender soul of Eugenie who instantly falls in love with him. But Grandet is more than ever ready to sacrifice everything on the altar of money. Even his own daughter…
The screening will be followed by a discussion about the movie led by Abdel Hamouchi, one of our French Instructor passionate about cinema.
Watch the trailer here!
Film will be shown in French with English subtitles.
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Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850), one of the greatest and most influential of novelists, was born in Tours and educated at the Collège de Vendôme and the Sorbonne. He began his career as a pseudonymous writer of sensational potboilers before achieving success with a historical novel, The Chouans. Balzac then conceived his great work, La Comédie humaine, an ongoing series of novels in which he set out to offer a complete picture of contemporary society and manners. Always working under an extraordinary burden of debt, Balzac wrote some eighty-five novels in the course of his last twenty years, including such masterpieces as Père Goriot, Eugénie Grandet, Lost Illusions, and Cousin Bette.