A magical coming-of-age story at the Athens Open Air Film Festival
On 14th of July, the French National Holiday, the 3rd Athens Open Air Film Festival honours once more the occasion with a screening set in the idyllic garden of the Numismatic Museum and a film which easily managed to stand out from the revolutionary French filmography of the 60’s.
On 14th of July, the French National Holiday, the 3rd Athens Open Air Film Festival honours once more the occasion with a screening set in the idyllic garden of the Numismatic Museum and a film which easily managed to stand out from the revolutionary French filmography of the 60’s.
When: Sunday July 14th, at 22:30
Where: The garden of the Numismatic Museum of Athens, Panepistimiou 12 (see map below)
Free entrance
10-year-old Zazie goes to Paris to spend a weekend at her eccentric uncle’s house, so that her mother can find time for her lover. The young wildcat, though, has no intention of sitting still. As she gets away from under uncle Gabriel’s watch, she wanders around the crazy – and full of peculiarities – Paris, having as a sole wish to get into the metro. The fact that the workers are keeping it closed is no more than an insignificant detail.
“Zazie in the Metro” (1960), one of the most distinctive movies in the anyhow adventurous filmography of Louis Malle, follows the steps of its eponymous and extremely popular novel by Raymond Queneau. Malle dares to intervene several times in the original material, which many rushed to deem impossible to adapt and brings to life on screen a magical story of adulthood - this “forced” one of the pioneers of Nouvelle Vague, Francois Truffaut, to express his enthusiasm in writing.
zazie dans le metro - trailer από NyxtesPremieras
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The 3rd Athens Open Air Film Festival is organized by the Athens International Film Festival and the CINEMA magazine – cinemagazine.gr, with the kind support of the Greek National Tourism Organisation..
