Ca Brule (2006) – By Claire Simon
Presented in the 2006 Cannes Film Festival (“La Quinzaine Des Realisateurs”)

Let’s watch this French drama (1hr51mins) and then discuss in French.

Special thanks to Culturesfrance and the Cultural Services of the French Embassy for making this movie available to us.

$5 cover charge – includes tea or coffee
For those who want dinner, please specify within RSVP (if enough demand, will ask cook to be available)

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The south of France, arid summer, suspicious calm, and the supreme dominance of a nature threatened by fire…

Livia, fifteen, is one with her environment, seizing every day the strength of the elements as she rides her horse. Passionate and intense, she falls in love with Jean, a fireman and married father of 40. In her mind, his fights against fire make him the incarnation of rightness. He is a steady force against excesses; against fear and panic. But their love falls apart when he returns to his family, and leaves place to destruction.

“Ca Brule” tells the powerful story of a rebellion, a solitary fury. “Terrorism at the individual level” would say the director Claire Simon.

The battle between the extreme desire of a girl and the silence of the rest of the world makes her use catastrophe as a way of expression.