Cinema picnic with a historic film
- Published: 13/02/2012 at 03:56 AM
- Newspaper section: Life
A St Valentine's Day film screening cannot be more historic than this. Tomorrow on the lawn of Museum Siam, the French-Thai Cultural Festival, or La Fete, will treat singles and lovers to the Thailand premiere of a restored and coloured version of the 1902 film by Georges Melies,Voyage dans la lune (A Trip to the Moon). This colour print of the legendary film had been thought to have lost forever, but in 1993, the Barcelona Film Archive miraculously unearthed it, though in a sorry condition, and one of the most ambitious restoration in film history began.
The colour Voyage dans la lune was premiered at Cannes Film Festival last year. It's fitting that the film is being shown this week, since Hugo, the Martin Scorsese's film that's closely related to Melies's fantastic invention, is being released in Thailand too.
At tomorrow's screening, a feature film The Art of Love, by Emmanuel Mouret, will follow the screening of Voyage dans la lune. It's a picnic, so bring sandwiches and wine!
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