Bangalore Film Society and Alliance Francaise as a part of their monthly initiative Cine-Club brings another curated edition of session with cinema entitled ‘Town & Country’.

August’s triple treat sees renowned auteurs Louis Malle, the toast of French cinema and Mira Nair’s celluloid explorations of life and landscape capturing the spirit of the land, the time and its people.

The two-day (Fri and Sat) triplet filmi trek flags off with Louis Malle’s lyrical and evocative tale Atlantic City, whose tantalising tagline goes thus: She made him become what he always wanted to be — a lover, a hero, a rich man... and a killer! and is told with biting and suble humour.

Find out what happens when small time, silver-haired gangster Lou (in the employ of aging moll Grace) meets a young, sensuous, cherubic and charming croupier Sally who yens for the distant Monte Carlo, a symbol of glamorous life.

See how dreams, delusions of past grandeur and destinies coalesce and collapse in bright crazy ridden neon streets of cocaine ridden gambling town and how it changes the lives of Lou and Sally and other people who populate Malle’s spright and sharp Atlantic City. Burt Lancaster and Susan Sarandon who make the odd romantic couple sizzle and scorch the screen.

Malle’s May Fools, set against the backdrop of 1968 student unrest, far away from the burning and procession filled streets of Paris, is a light social satire on the bourgeois society, and very funny one at that.

Poking fun at the French middle-class, the film, tracks how with the passing away of the family’s matriarch, the kin indugle in plotting, back-stabbing, double crossing, squabble over the inheritance even while they lunch, falling in love despite torrents of unrest that pours on. The film has a semblance of Renoir’s Rules of the Game as also Chekov’s Cherry Orchard.

The outing ends with Mira Nair’s cinematic ode to India’s commercial and cinema capital and ‘City of Dreams’ Salaam Bombay!  It explores the much hyped myth behind Mumbai’s glitz and glamour, through the eyes of a 10-year-old runaway Krishna. How the City turns a lost and naive Krishna into street-smart lad in his fight for survival in Mumbai’s gritty underbelly forms the colorful take whose characters provide it with the realistic touch. Indeed it is movie magic and masti this weekend.

Screening at Alliance Francaise on Friday and Saturday at 6.30 pm. For details call 25492774/25493705/ mobile 9886213516 (Siddarth).