The joys of sound and vision championed at French film fest

Much of this year’s Cork French Film Festival is about “using music to meander through French classics”, according to Paul Callanan, who has programmed the 25th anniversary event.

French cinema has always been ‘le doyen’ of the sexy soundtrack and this collaboration between image and sound is championed at this year’s event, which runs for a week from Sunday.

The iconic Un Homme et Une Femme will be screened at the Gate on Tuesday. Just like Jacques Demy’s Lola, which runs the evening before, the Claude Lelouch feature stars the devastatingly beautiful Anouk Aimée, a single parent who because of a chance encounter leaving a school event sees an initially undesired romance blossom.