Violette (N/C 15+) French Film Festival at the Robert Burns Centre
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Amélie director Jean-Pierre Jeunet has adapted Valérie Perrin’s international best-seller with a stellar cast among them Leila Bekhti, Melvil Poupaud and, of course, Dominique Pinon.
Cemetery caretaker Violette's routine of offering comfort to visitors is upended when a police officer's arrival forces her to confront her own tragic and mysterious past.
Co-written by Jeunet and Guillaume Laurant, Bekhti plays Violette Toussaint, a beloved cemetery caretaker whose peaceful life – filled by conversations with quirky workers and the many visitors who share their stories of love, loss, and life – is thrown off course when a mysterious stranger shows up on her doorstep compelling her to confront her troubled past filled with hidden truths. Violette comes to understand that the truth behind long-buried mysteries in her past must be uncovered if she wants to take another chance on life and, against all odds, love. The film marks Jeunet’s return to cinema after a gap of 13 years since The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet.
In French with English subtitles.
"The film stays true to the book’s emotional core, blending present-day storytelling with flashbacks." - Sortir à Paris
Cemetery caretaker Violette's routine of offering comfort to visitors is upended when a police officer's arrival forces her to confront her own tragic and mysterious past.
Co-written by Jeunet and Guillaume Laurant, Bekhti plays Violette Toussaint, a beloved cemetery caretaker whose peaceful life – filled by conversations with quirky workers and the many visitors who share their stories of love, loss, and life – is thrown off course when a mysterious stranger shows up on her doorstep compelling her to confront her troubled past filled with hidden truths. Violette comes to understand that the truth behind long-buried mysteries in her past must be uncovered if she wants to take another chance on life and, against all odds, love. The film marks Jeunet’s return to cinema after a gap of 13 years since The Young and Prodigious T.S. Spivet.
In French with English subtitles.
"The film stays true to the book’s emotional core, blending present-day storytelling with flashbacks." - Sortir à Paris
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Where is it happening?
Robert Burns Centre, Mill Road, DG2 7BE Dumfries, United Kingdom, Robert Burns Centre, Mill Road, Dumfries, DG2 7, United Kingdom
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