Capital Celluloid 2014 - Day 89: Sun Mar 30

La Chamade (Cavalier, 1968): Cine Lumiere, 2pm

Here is the Cine Lumiere introduction: Alain Cavalier’s elegant and lucid adaptation of Françoise Sagan’s 1966 novel stars Catherine Deneuve in a torrid tangle of desire, denial and deception. The expensively kept girlfriend of a wealthy older man, Lucille is beautiful, bored and blissfully blind to her shallow existence until she meets Antoine. Passionate but poor, Antoine offers a whole new world of experience and kindles Lucille’s smouldering desires. But as the charms of Antoine’s workaday life begin to fade, Lucille must choose between the love of her life and the love of her lifestyle.

Here is an extract.