Drama, comedy and lust on screen

Next week starts with film in Nicosia, Larnaca and Limassol.

Starting off on Monday, the Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation in Nicosia will show the French comedy Populaire at 9pm, while Larnaca and the Pierides Museum will take the drama route with The Eternal Return of Antonis Paraskevas.

Populaire is the last film to be shown in the summer screening season of the Faneromeni 17 festival. It is set in the Spring of 1958 when 21-year-old Rose must win a speed-typing competition to get a job as a secretary, with the help of her – hopefully – boss to be.

The Eternal Return of Antonis Paraskevas is set around a famous television presenter who stages his own disappearance because he wants to orchestrate a big comeback. While the search party is out, he unexpectedly discovers hidden corners of his own psyche.

On Tuesday, the Nicosia and Limassol crowd can enjoy Jude Law in a screening of the play Obsession by Ivo van Hove at the Barbican Theatre in London as part of the National Theatre Live series.

Law takes on the role of Gino, a handsome drifter who meets husband and wife, Giuseppe and Giovanna at a road side restaurant. Immediately Gino and Giovanna are attracted to each other and plot to murder Giuseppe to get him out of the way. But, in this chilling tale of passion and destruction, the crime only serves to tear them apart.

Populaire
Screening of the 2012 French comedy. September 18. Bank of Cyprus Cultural Foundation, Nicosia. 9pm. Free. In French with Greek subtitles. Tel: 22-128157

The Eternal Return of Antonis Paraskevas
Screening of the Greek drama. September 18. Pierides Musuem, 4 Zenonos Kitieos, Larnaca. 8.30pm. In Greek with English subtitles. €3/5. Tel: 24-145375

Obsession
Screening of the performance at the National Theatre. September 19. Rialto theatre, Limassol. 8.30pm. €10/7. With English and Greek subtitles. Tel: 25-343902
Thoc, Nicosia. 8.30pm. €10/6. In English with Greek and Turkish subtitles. Tel: 7-772717

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