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Poignant and Piquant

British Film Week begins at the British Council with thought provoking films

By Fayza Haq
THE British Film Week 2000. from July 23-2 7 al the British Council auditorium comprises Interesting and thought-provoking programmes. The week begins with With or Without You on July 23 at 4.30 p.m.. Notting Hill on the same day at 7
p.m., Gregory's Two Girls on July 21 at 4.30 p.m.. East is East on July 26 at 4.30 p in. and Beautiful People on the same day at 7 p in.
George Khan In Ayub Khan's film East Is East, directed by Damien O'Donnell Is a character. who is caught up in two worlds, like many in the West, lie wants his family of four
children to abide his conservative ways of life which hark back to his origin, his roots. He has Meenah who despises sn-rees and prefers to romp around a bit wild as some young women would; Saleem says at home that he Is studying to be an engineer when he is actually a hippie at an art school: Tariq has turned Into popular modern
version of Fielding's Tom Jones while little Sajid has yet to grow out of his childhood days.
The children can think for themselves and want to go In their own directions, having their Individual drives. Meanwhile George's English wife, Ella, adores her husband and wishes to follow him all the way loyally, and alms at her children's Individual happiness and a peace of mind.
George, called 'Gengis' by his children, secretly connives to marry his two sons to the two daughters of Shah, a well-to-do butcher at Bradford. This is because he has had earlier unhappy experiences of interracial tying of knots. There Is both laughter and poignancy in the plot that depict the clash of two cultures in a family.
The producer of East is East Is Leslee Udwin; the cast directors are Toby Wah* and Joan McCann: and the cast includes Om Purl. Linda Bassett. Jordan Routledge. Archie Panjabi. Emil Marwa, Chris Bisson. Jimi Mlstri. Raji James and Ian Aspinall. The film of 95 minutes duration, in colour, of 35mm, will be shown on July 27 at 7 p.m.
Gregory's Two Girls, directed by Bill Forsyth and produced by Christopher presents the story of Gregory, a human rights activist, who Is on to removing political injustice. He teaches English at his old school after a 20-year-old crush on a football crazy girl. While teaching he is informed of wrong doings at a local factory and eventually finds him self torn asunder between an old school-friend, who is the villain here, and two women: a good looking schoolgirl and a voluptuous woman.
The principal cast comprises John Gordon Sinclair. Dougray Scott, Maria Doyle Kennedy and Carly McKinnon. With screenplay by Bill Forsyth, the film is a colour 35m.in. entertainment of 118 minutes. This will be screened at 4.3 .p in. on July 24.
Notting Hill directed by Roger Michell, has the romantic comedy of how a world famous movie star. Anna Scott (Julia Roberts), whose face is flashed on magazine covers and bill boards the world over, meets and falls head over heels with William Thacker (Hugh Grant) who manages a travel bookstore.
While glamour and adula-
tion surrounds Julia. William s business Is not flourishing at all. while his roommate is a pure nuisance, and his love Ilie Is as dull as ditch water since his divorce. Julia, meanwhile, has yet to find her soul mate and later, when they meet unexpectedly al Notting Hill, Cupid has his alms right Thus the film has a fairy-tale eliding ol the flowering and nourishing ol romance of two unlikely people.
With the screenplay by Richard Curtis, with the cast including Alec Baldwin. Richard McCabe and Rhys Ifans, besides the principal performers this 35mm colour production has a duration of 123 minutes.
Another fascinating entry In the promising BC film week is director and writer's Jasmin's Disdar's Beautiful People. which deals with characters who have suffered in Bosnia in 1993 and London-based individuals. whose lives interweave with theirs.
Here is an appealing film of how a Croat and a Serb, who initially came from the same village back home, turn enemies when they have a chance
meeting In a London bus The plot involves a BBC reporter who has returned from Bosnia with an amputated leg, a refugee patient who has the nurse responding to arising amours, and a recently divorced obstetrician who comes to the aid of a pregnant Bosnian woman.
The theme and the setting with the Bosnia overtures should attract viewers. It Includes elements of drug abuse, slang and violence. With Roger Shannon as the producer, the main cast Includes Charles Kay. Charlotte Coleman. Rosalind Ayrs. Heather Tobias and Siobhan Redmond. The 35-mm colour film has a duration of I hour 47 minutes.
The last in BC’s offer of delectable films Is director Michael Winterbottom's With or without You which is set in Ireland and has the typical theme of the once-happy European couple falling apart due to the lack of having a child to prevent them from going asunder. Vincent (Christopher Eccleston) who was a policeman before he married Rosie (Dervla Kirwan) and had abandoned his
career at the coaxing of his fiancee. Is stuck with the lacklustre Job of being a window repairman. Tension grows as there Is nothing to bind them together In way of a child, when steps in Benoit (Yvan Attal) Rosie's old French pen pal to add more fuel to the fire of marriage.
Rosie encourages Yvan to be around, while Vincent being weary of playing the knight-at-arrns to his apparently disloyal wife, turns away to bls earlier girl friend Cathy (Julie Gra-ham). The weary husband thus finally flies off with Cathy leaving the wife to try to piece together her conjugal life and ponder over what will take place next.
The film Is produced by Andrew Eaton and Includes Julie Graham and Alun Armstrong apart from the main performers. This 35mm colour film has a duration of 90 minutes.
Film lovers In Dhaka who crowd at the regular haunts at the British Council. Alliance Francaise. Goethe Institut and Indian High Commission, should surely find these films a treat.