Alliance Française de Delhi Learn French, Delf-Dalf Exam, Indo-French Cultural Events
Location: M.L. Bhartia Auditorium, Alliance française de Delhi
Date: Fri, 2011/02/04 -5:30pm – 7:30pm
Price: Free admission.Open to all.
Category: Film screening
Duration: 1 hour 45 minutes
Captain Achab / Capitaine Achab
Friday, 4 February 2011
5.30 p.m. & 7.30 p.m.
2007-Col-1h 45 min
Directed by: Philippe Ramos
Captain Achab is a Franco-Swedish movie based on Herman Melville’s masterpiece novel Moby Dick. Director, Philippe Ramos gives us a unique and personal adaptation of this story, inspired by the Gustave Courbet painting: ‘The Origin of the World’. Set in 1840, in a lush oceanic world and filmed in Northern
France the film slowly reveals the trajectory of a young Biblereading boy in an isolated hunting hut who becomes the most famous whaling captain in the world (and, indeed literature). Young Achab grows to literally rule the oceans. A highly respected captain, he meets his match in the prodigious whale, Moby Dick; whose whiteness is reflected in translucent skin of the beautiful Louise who also haunts his dreams…
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