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Thursday 18 November 2010 at 20:30 / Jeudi 18 Novembre 2010 à 20:30

CERN Main Auditorium /
Amphithéâtre Principal



LOVE ACTUALLY
 


By/de : Richard Curtis (UK, 2003) 121 min


With/avec: Hugh Grant, Colin Firth, Liam Neeson, Emma Thompson, Keira Knightley, Alan Rickman, Bill Nighy, Martine McCutcheon
 

The characters are falling in love, falling out of love, some are with right people, some are with the wrong people, some are looking to have an affair, some are in the period of mourning; a capsule summary of reality. Love begins and love ends. They flirt a lot. They are all flirting with love. At all ages and social levels, love is the theme. Romantic love and brotherly love is the hotchpotch throughout the film. Most of the film is filmed in London, during Christmas and the characters all end up at Heathrow airport in a very uplifting note..

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Jeudi 25 Novembre 2010 à 20:30

CERN Main Auditorium /
Amphithéâtre Principal



THE MEANING OF LIFE



 
By/de : Terry Jones (UK, 1986) 121 min


With/avec: Terry Gilliam, Graham Chapman, John Cleese, Eric Idle, Terry Jones, Michael Palin


Why are we here, what’s it all about? The Monty Python-team is trying to sort out the most important question on Earth: what is the meaning of life? They do so by exploring the various stages of life, starting with birth. A doctor seems more interested in his equipment than in delivering the baby or caring for the mother, a Roman Catholic couple have quite a lot of children because ‘every sperm is sacred’. In the growing and learning part of life, catholic schoolboys attend a rather strange church service and ditto sex education lesson. Onto war, where an officer’s plan to attack is thwarted by his underlings wanting to celebrate his birthday and an officer’s leg is bitten off by presumably an African tiger. At middle age a couple orders ‘philosophy’ at a restaurant, after which the film continues with live organ transplants. The autumn years are played in a restaurant, which sees the arrival of an extremely fat man. He can eat a lot, but also throw up quite copiously. The Grim Reaper brings for the final stage of human life, death, a visit to a mansion, where the people are rather interested in him. But life doesn’t stop at death. It’s onto heaven, where it’s always Christmas.

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