The Hyderabad Film Club, in association with the Alliance Francise Of Hyderabad, will be screening a French movie Je Suis Pas La Pour Etre Aime (Not Here To Be Loved) at the Sarathi Studio, on 22nd September. The movie will begin at 6:30pm
Directed by Stephane Brize, the movie is 93 minutes long, with Anne Consigny, Patrick Chesnais, Georges Wilson, Lionel Abelanski, Genevieve Mnich and Cyril Couton in the star cast
Not Here To Be Loved is about a man called Jean-Claude (Chesnais), whose 51st birthday is approaching, but alone and loveless. As a bailiff in a family firm, his only day-to-day contact is serving court orders to people who hate and fear him. His weekly visits to his monstrous father (Wilson) at a nursing home are marked by resentment and aggression, while he struggles to hold a conversation with his adult son (Couton) who has reluctantly joined the business.
When his doctor suggests that his heart needs exercise, Jean-Claude crosses over from his office to the tango school opposite, where he meets 30-something Francoise (Consigny), who also has a longing for change as she drifts inexorably towards marriage to self-absorbed would-be novelist Thierry (Abelanski). With little in common besides resigned disappointment, Jean-Claude and Fran