CINE CLUB

Wednesday 19 August 2015 at 20:00
CERN Council Chamber

A Clockwork Orange

Directed by Stanley Kubrick (UK/USA, 1971) 136 min.
Alex DeLarge, a teenage hooligan in a near-future Britain, gets jailed by the police. There he volunteers as guinea pig for a new aversion therapy proposed by the government to make room in prisons for political prisoners. "Cured" of his hooliganism and released, he is rejected by his friends and relatives. Eventually nearly dying, he becomes a major embarrassment for the government, who arrange to cure him of his cure.

Original version english; french subtitles

Wednesday 26 August 2015 at 20:00
CERN Council Chamber

The Shining

Directed by Stanley Kubrick (USA/UK, 1980) 146 min.

A family heads to an isolated hotel for the winter where an evil and spiritual presence influences the father into violence, while his psychic son sees horrific forebodings from the past and of the future.
Original version english; french subtitles

Wednesday 2 September 2015 at 20:00
CERN Council Chamber

L’Auberge Espagnole

Directed by Cédric Klapisch (France/Spain, 2002) 122 min.

As part of a job that he is promised, Xavier, an economics student in his twenties, signs on to a European exchange programme in order to gain working knowledge of the Spanish language. Promising that they will remain close, he says farewell to his loving girlfriend, then heads to Barcelona. Following his arrival, Xavier is soon thrust into a cultural melting pot when he moves into an apartment full of international students. An Italian, an English girl, a boy from Denmark, a young girl from Belgium, a German and a girl from Tarragona all join him in a series of adventures that serve as an initiation to life.

Original version french / spanish/ english / catalan / danish / german / italian; english subtitles

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