Film

A Preview of "La Baie des Anges" ("Bay of Angels") at the Grimaldi Forum Monaco

A restored version of Jacques Demy's film will be screened at the Grimaldi Forum Monaco on 20 March 2013 at 8 pm

Ciné Tamaris and La Cinémathèque Française have just restored "La Baie des Anges," Jacques Demy's 1962 masterpiece, thanks to the support of the Franco-American Cultural Fund, Monaco Audiovisual Archives and SOGEDA Monaco.

The film tells the story of Jean Fournier (Claude Mann), a humble bank clerk in Paris, who is introduced to gambling by his friend Caron.  Caron takes him to the casino in Enghien, where Jean wins a large sum of money – the start of a passion that leads him into a world he knows only from books and the cinema.

Jacques Demy does not aim to portray an image of a substantial, fluid world.  He prefers the uncertain world of gaming to the stability of what is real – a world inhabited by the ravishing Jeanne Moreau, who is fascinated and betrayed by roulette, as if by the dearest of lovers.  In "La Baie des Anges," Jacques Demy has created a pure, clear film, tinged with dark optimism, which is unique in French cinema of the 1960s.

A restored version of the film "La Baie des Anges" by Jacques Demy with Jeanne Moreau and Claude Mann. 

Grimaldi Forum Monaco
20 March 2013 at 8 pm

Further information on:  www.grimaldiforum.com