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(China Daily)
Updated: 2007-06-01 06:26

The Tiger and the SnowNow playing

Latest romantic comedy from Roberto Benigni involving an acclaimed poet who has the same dream every night - he is in his underwear getting married to a beautiful woman in front of a laughing crowd. One day in Rome the woman from his dream appears in the flesh. This film was almost universally panned by critics for its tactless treatment of the Iraq war. 7:30pm, June 6. At Italian embassy's cultural office. In Italian with English subtitles. 6532-2187.

Now playingL'Atalante

Jean Vigo made only four films before he died of tuberculosis in 1934, aged just 29. The last and greatest was L'Atalante (1934), butchered for commercial release and, though partially restored, even now unable to be seen exactly as its director intended. The film is a tragic happening on l'Atalante, a barge in which two young newly-weds travel the waterways of France. In French with Chinese subtitles. 20 yuan (10 yuan for students). 3pm, 7pm, Jun 2, 5pm, Jun 3, 7:30pm, Jun 4, 5pm, Jun 5, 3pm, 7pm, Jun 6. At French Cultural Centre. 6553-2627.

La Belle et La Bete (Beauty and the Beast)Now playing

The film was the first feature film by French director Jean Cocteau, a writer, poet and painter with ties to the surrealists. Faithfully, but not totally simply, based on the fairy tale by Madame LePrince de Beaumont, it is almost purely visual. The haunting, surreal and a sensitive performance by Jean Marais as the Beast imbue the film with an indelible, mythical power. 5pm, Jun 2, 3pm, 7:30pm, Jun 3, 5pm, Jun 6. At French Cultural Centre.

Now playingEnter the Dragon

The last film completed by Bruce Lee before his untimely death, is his entre into Hollywood. The American-Hong Kong co-production, shot in Asia by American director Robert Clouse, stars Lee as a British agent sent to infiltrate the criminal empire of bloodthirsty Asian crime lord Han (Shih Kien) through his annual international martial arts tournament. Lee spends his days taking on tournament combatants and nights breaking into the heavily guarded underground fortress, kicking the living tar out of anyone who stands in his way. 7pm on June 7. In English. At D-22 Club. 6265-3177.

(China Daily 05/30/2007 page7)