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The "Restored Treasures - First World War Centenary" series, presented by the Hong Kong Film Archive of the Leisure and Cultural Services Department, has received an enthusiastic response and all tickets for the period from August to January 2015 have already sold out. However, an additional screening of French filmmaker Jean Renoir's masterpiece "The Grand Illusion" will be held at 2pm on September 28 at the HKFA Cinema. Additional screenings for some other films will be announced in due course.
"The Grand Illusion" was praised as one of cinema's most profound anti-war statements. The film features a group of French officers and their attempts to escape from German prisoner-of-war camps. Renoir strips away the social divides between the characters, exposing all men as equal in the face of war. Officers and soldiers from different social classes and even opposite camps can also converse and share on common grounds of dignity and humanity. The film version to be screened was scanned and restored in 4K by the L'Immagine Ritrovata Film Restoration Laboratory.
Tickets for the additional screening priced at $50 are now available at URBTIX. Half-price concessionary tickets are available for senior citizens aged 60 and above, people with disabilities and their minders, full-time students and Comprehensive Social Security Assistance recipients. Credit card telephone bookings can be made on 2111 5999, or on the Internet at www.urbtix.hk.
Programme details can be found in "ProFolio 73" available at all performing venues of the Leisure and Cultural Services Department. For enquiries, please call 2739 2139 or 2734 2900, or browse the webpage: www.lcsd.gov.hk/CE/CulturalService/filmprog/english/2011rt3/2011rt3_film.html.
Ends/Thursday, August 28, 2014
Issued at HKT 12:18
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