The City Never Sleeps

After giving a miss for several years, I finally decided to go for The 24th Singapore French Film Festival. With the screening held at The Cathay, The Picturehouse and Alliance Francaise De Singapour, it makes more sense and a better reason for one to go catch a decent French movie that is missing in our theatres.

So I decided to catch Love Songs aka Les Chanson D'amour. A French musical that finally make it to the film fest in Singapore, for 2 shows only.

With a screening held at The Cathay last night and Alliance Francaise De Singapour next Sunday (closing night), it is a rare musical that grips me throughout the whole film. And man, I really love it. (It's theme on homosexuality and bisexuality makes this a favourite among all the films screening at the festival. Not forgetting that it gains the musical an R21 rating.)

Here, you have Ismael, our leading character. He is the boyfriend of Julie, and Julie has a girlfriend named Alice. Together the trio are staying together and engaging in a menage a trois relationship. Until tragedy strikes, the musical leads us to a new twist in the story.

Boy loves girl, girl loves girl, girl introduce another boy, boy falls in love with boy...

Will they be living happily ever after? Don't miss this. Give it a try next Sun.

Trust me, it is better than some B-graded films playing in mainstream theatres.