Soirée Vin et Cinéma
French Wine & Film Night
Introduction to French Wine
An Informal Introduction to French Wine Styles w/ Naomi Ní Chatháin
A basic, informal and fun approach to tasting and appreciating French wines.
Learn about French terroir and how it affects the wine.
Making sense of complicated French wine labeling.
Tasting and discussing the differences between regional styles.
(Class is apx. 40 min in duration, free wine and food samples provided, maximum class size is 20).
7:30-8:30pm
Soirée Cinéma/French Film Night
Viewing of French New Wave classic Jules et Jim (1962, 1h40 approx) with interval. Subtitled.
A charming, exciting and ultimately tragic insight into a love triangle involving two friends and an enigmatic, beautiful woman. A fun, frenetic and quintessentially French masterpiece by Francois Truffaut.
9pm-11pm
Available on DVD through www.umbrellaent.com.au Buy it here: http://www.umbrellaent.com.au/p-1651-jules-and-jim.aspx Hailed by critics as one of the greatest films of all time, Truffaut's internationally award-winning film 'Jules and Jim' is set pre- and post- The First World War, and tells the tale of two young students, Jules (Oskar Werner), an Austrian, and Jim (Henri Serre), a Frenchman, in love with the beautiful, capricious, Catherine (outstandingly played by Jeanne Moreau).