Jean Rhys, Pascal Bonitzer and Wuthering Heights in Bangalore

Several present (and past) alerts:
1. In Edinburgh, UK:

Wednesday 1 April, 7pm
BOOK LOVERS GROUP
Venue: Sheraton Hotel, Exchange Bar

Join us at the popular SBC Book Club. Enjoy lively discussions over a drink or two. Whether you are an avid reader or would love to read more, you'll love our relaxed group.
Our book next month is Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys. "Wide Sargasso Sea is a great novel, it is many brilliant books in one. Multi-layered and complex, Jean Rhys's prelude to Jane Eyre vividly illustrates how accounts and understanding differ, and creates a sense of the characters' past being inescapable." The Independent.
Optional light dinner available for just £10 (decide on the day).

Curiously the Elle Magazine's April book recommendations include Lilian Pizzichini’s The Blue Hour:

Biographer Lilian Pizzichini’s The Blue Hour (Norton) delves into the turbulent life of Dominicaborn, Europegrafted Jean Rhys, whose groundbreaking 1966 novel Wide Sargasso Sea—a prequel to Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre that was published when Rhys was 76 years old—made her a poster-fem for women writing in obscurity, dislocation, and fragile circumstances. (Lisa Shea)

2. At the Cinémathèque Française in Paris:

Retrospective André Téchiné:
Wednesday, April 1 - 21h30 - SALLE GEORGES FRANJU - 35mm

LES SOEURS BRONTË
France - 1979 - 115’
Avec Isabelle Huppert, Isabelle Adjani, Marie-France Pisier, Pascal Grégory, Patrick Magee, Hélène Surgère, Roland Bertin, Alice Sapritch, Roland Barthes.

With the presence of the screenwriter Pascal Bonitzer.

3. And belatedly we report some performances of Charles Vance's adaptation of Wuthering Heights in Bangalore, India:

Orange Sky Productions presents
Wuthering Heights

Directed by Kanak Narayan Sen
Playwright: Charles Vance
(based on the novel by Emily Bronte)

With: Sonu Sonkar, Dhanya Menon, Kartik Iyer, Pulkit Bhuwalka, Parthasarathy Devarajan, Aparna Warrier, Madhubanti Banerjee, Ratish Mani, Salil Lal Ahamed and Vidya Belman.

Lights: Mohammed Mustafa A.
Music: Siddhartha Chattopadhyay
Speech Consultant: Nazu Tonse
Productions Managers: Irene Daniel, Ameya Sarda

27th March 2009 at 7.30 p.m.
28th March at 3.30 p.m & 7.30 p.m.

At the Alliance Française de Bangalore, India.

A flyer can be seen here.

Categories: Alert, Movies-DVD-TV, Theatre, Wide Sargasso Sea, Wuthering Heights