The October film (Sunday 19th Oct), The Singer, is one of the year’s most charming romances. Gérard Depardieu plays Alain Moreau, a fifty something crooner with a capacious gut, a sun-bed addiction and a repertoire of ballads that whiff like two-week-old Camembert. The middle-aged divorcées at his night-club can’t get enough, jostling with each other for autographs and backstage invitations. Young and beautiful, Marion (Cécile De France) is way outside his usual demographic. But, after a full-blown assault of champagne and sotto voce chat-up lines, she happily succumbs to this twinkle-eyed walrus of love.
Depardieu plays a blinder, imbuing what in lesser hands could have been a pathetic caricature with something far more affecting. De France is his ideal foil, eyeing her unlikely suitor with haughtiness, then bemusement, then genuine affection.
The film show is in Broughton Village Hall, doors open at 7:30pm with the main feature at 8:15pm. New member and guest are welcome.

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