French film night: La Grande Vadrouille
Sunday, January 26 at 6:45 PM – 10:00 PM
French language films are shown in Pangbourne Village Hall on the last Sunday of the month, apart from December, from October through to April.
Doors open at 6.45pm, with the film at 7.30pm.
A bar is available.
Films for the spring season:
January 26: La Grande Vadrouille
February 23: Hidden
March 30: Demosielles de Rochfort
April 27: Sarah’s Key.
La Grande Vadrouille is said to be one of the greatest comic achievements of French cinema and is one of the most popular films ever screened in France.
It is a comedy set in the Second World War, and focuses on what happens when a British plane is shot down.
Can the the parachuted crew escape the German occupiers, with the help of friendly locals and the resistance?
The film stars Terry-Thomas as Sir Reginald, one of the airmen, and joins a distinguished French cast who manage to make the story both exciting and funny at the expense of the Germans who try to capture them.
The cast includes André Bourvil, Louis de Funès, Claudio Brook and Andrea Parisy, with Colette Brosset and Mike Marshall.
The film is still shown on French TV every year, and is held in high regard as a comic masterpiece. It had an alternative title in Britain of Don’t Look Now…We’re Being Shot At!
Duration 118 minutes, with English subtitles. BBFC classification PG (mild language, violence and sex references).
