Cine Club

Wednesday 9 August 2017 at 20.00
CERN Council Chamber

The Fifth Element

Directed by Luc Besson
France, 1997, 126 min

Two hundred and fifty years in the future, life as we know it is threatened by the arrival of Evil. Only the Fifth Element can stop the Evil from extinguishing life, as it tries to do every five thousand years. She is assisted by a former elite commando turned cab driver, Korben Dallas, who is, in turn, helped by Prince/Arsenio clone, Ruby Rhod. Unfortunately, Evil is being assisted by Mr. Zorg, who seeks to profit from the chaos that Evil will bring, and his alien mercenaries.

Original version English; French subtitles

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Wednesday 16 August 2017 at 20.00
CERN Council Chamber

Mad Max 2 - The Road Warrior

Directed by George Miller
Australia, 1982, 94 min

A former Australian policeman now living in the post-apocalyptic Australian outback as a warrior agrees to help a community of survivors living in a gasoline refinery to defend them and their gasoline supplies from evil barbarian warriors.

Original version English; French subtitles

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Wednesday 23 August 2017 at 20.00
CERN Council Chamber

THX 1138


Directed by George Lucas
USA, 1971, 86 min

The human race has been relocated to an underground city located beneath the Earth's surface. There, the population is entertained by holographic TV which broadcasts sex and violence and robotic police force enforces the law. In the underground city, all citizens are drugged to control their emotions and their behaviour and sex is a crime. Factory worker THX-1138 stops taking the drugs and he breaks the law when he finds himself falling in love with his room-mate LUH 3417 and is imprisoned when LUH 3417 is pregnant. Escaping from jail with illegal programmer SEN 5241 and a hologram named SRT, THX 1138 goes in search of LUH 3417 and escapes to the surface, whilst being pursued by robotic policemen..

Original version English; French subtitles

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