Alliance Française de Manille’s the Cine Club

presents

The af Cine Club presents

BERNIE

a film by Albert Dupontel
(French version, with English subtitles)
film advisory warning: violent content
1996, 87 minutes

Alliance Ondeo Auditorium
Wednesday, February 7, 2007, 8:30 pm
( Free Admission )

(Le Coude Rouge Restaurant is open before and after the film)

Starring: Albert Dupontel (Bernie), Claude Perron (Marion), Roland Blanche (Willis), Hélène Vincent (The Mother),

Catherine Samie (Mamoune Clermontf), and more

Genre: Drama, Black Comedy;

Critic Reviews:
“ A hit French Cult movie “ - Time Out Film Guide 13 (London - TimeOut.com)

“ Abrasive score, augmented by screeching sound design, keeps the mood edgy and unpredictable ”.
- LISA NESSELSON (Variety.com)

Synopsis:
A 30-year-old frustrated and neurotic orphan leaves the orphanage where he had stayed on to work having turned 18. His goal: to find out the true facts of his birth. Faced with the authorities’ refusal to give him his dossier, he burgles the social welfare office and discovers the terrifying truth: He was found in a bin, probably dumped by his parents. Unable to accept this version he concocts another somewhat more fabulous scenario: His parents had fallen victim to a Mafia plot. He had been kidnapped and dumped in a garbage chute. Today, his parents are still alive, they need his help!

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