Love is the same old song The ongoing retrospective of the surrealist French filmmaker, Alain Resnais, concludes today with the screening of On Connait La Chanson (1997). He directed this light-hearted musical as an homage to British author Dennis Potter and his Pennies from Heaven and The Singing Detective. The film follows Potter's gimmicky style of having the characters jump into lip-synched old or contemporary French pop songs to express their private thoughts. The tale has Resnais's unique touches to go along with his homage. It is a satire about class differences and falling in love with the wrong person, and that there is a song in everyone's heart for every occasion. It tells the romantic story of six Parisians who become intertwined with each other in their ordinary lives as they search for happiness. They are the attractive sisters Odile and Camille, with the older businesswoman Odile married to the glum and laconic Claude. She once went out with a businessman, Nicolas, who left her eight years ago and now shows up in Paris and asks her help to find someone to rent a flat for his family. Simon works as a real-estate salesman and is trying to find Nicolas a flat. Everything comes together in a bourgeois housewarming party for Odile's place, as the characters reveal their true feelings and all their deceptions and neurotic impulses are either uncovered or about to be. Hosted by the French Association. Event: Retrospective of films by Alain Resnais When: Today at 6 pm Where: The French Association Library

art

Till June 2 at Metropolitan Art Salon, Suite 18, 7 Jawaharlal Nehru Road; 3 pm - 8 pm: An exhibition of paintings by Tarit Das, Tanay Kr Paul, Bappa Bhowmick and Loknath Yadhav. Till June 3 at Taj Bengal (by the way); 3 pm - 6 pm: Paintings by Ramprasad Dey. May 29 - June 4 at Academy of Fine Arts, North Gallery; 3 pm - 8 pm: A Sculpture Show — an exhibition of bronzes by Tapan Kumar Das and Sunanda Das. May 29 - June 4 at Academy of Fine Arts; 3 pm - 8 pm: Recent works of Deepali Saha, Partho Roy, Chandana Khan and Manjushree Chakraborty. Till May 31 at Masters Collection Art Gallery, G7 Malayalay Apts, 3 Woodburn Park; 11 am - 7 pm: Refined Strokes, an exhibition of paintings by Kartick Pyne, Prokash Karmakar, Sanat Kar, Suhas Roy, T. Vaikuntam, Shuvaprasanna, Samir Aich, Subrata Gangopadhyay, Sanatan Dinda, Sekhar Roy, Wasim Kapoor, Somenath Maity, Babu Xavier, Laxman Aelay, Samindranath Mazumdar, Atin Basak, Suman Roy, Bratin Khan and others. Till May 31 at Silpi, 32B Judges Court Road; 1 pm - 8 pm: A solo show by Barun Simlai. Till June 2 at Gallery Kanishka’s, 2/1 Hindusthan Road; 11 am - 8 pm: Rooted in Realism, an exhibition of paintings and drawings by Bhaskar Mukherjee. Till June 12 at Seagull Arts and Media Resource Centre, 36C S.P. Mukherjee Road; 2 pm - 8 pm: Khela — new works on paper, canvas and enamel by Arunima Choudhury. Till July 28 (except Sundays and public holidays) at CIMA Gallery; Mondays: 3 pm - 7 pm, Tuesdays - Saturdays: 2 pm - 7 pm: Summer Show featuring about 50 artworks from across India.

drama

May 29 at Sisir Mancha; 6.30 pm: Nabankur presents two children’s play, Shunya Sheema and Syllebuse Nei. Direction: Shantanu Chakraborty. May 29 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Natasena presents Gorur Garir Headlight, written and directed by Saroj Roy. May 30 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Pratikriti presents Manik Bandyopadhyay’s Padma Nadir Majhi. Direction: Aalok Deb. May 30 at Madhusudan Mancha; 6.30 pm: Rang Roop presents Mukhosh Nritya. Direction: Seema Mukhopadhyay. May 31 at Academy of Fine Arts; 6.30 pm: Renaissance presents its latest Hindi drama, Dastak. Direction: Aloke Chakravorty. May 31 at Sujata Sadan; 6.45 pm: Sandarbha presents Aparahato. Direction: Soumitra Basu.

drama FESTIVAL

June 1 & 3 at Academy of Fine Arts & June 2 at Abanindra Sabhagriha (Charukala Bhavan): On the occasion of its 46th anniversary, Gandhar presents a festival of plays. June 1, 6.45 pm: Satyaasatya (dir: Shyamal Chakraborty). June 2, 6.30 pm: Ja Naie Bharata (play & play reading: Manoj Mitra). June 3, 6.30 pm: Jaraa Brishtite Bhijechhilo (dir: Goutam halder; solo acting by Bijoylakshmi Barman)

PERFORMING ARTS

May 30 at Bharatiyam Cultural Multiplex, IB 201 Salt Lake; 6 pm: EZCC hosts the presentation of Rituranga, a celebration of the seasons through a dance recital, and Positive Lives, a dannce-visual montage that tells the story of AIDS victims; both produced by Sapphire Creations Dance Workshop. June 1 Rabindra Sadan; 5.30 pm: Nritya-Upasana presents dance-drama Amrita Kanya, based on Rishi Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay’s novel, Devi Chaudhurani. Concept & direction: Kasmira Samanta. June 1 at Sisir Mancha; 6.30 pm: Kheya - Centre for Music presents Amrito Barir Barta, a collage of songs and recitation from the works of Kalidas and Tagore. Direction: Rama Basu. June 3 at Moulali Yuva Kendra; 6 pm: Somashree Ghosh Dastidar will render Nazrulgeeti, Shyamasangeet, Bhajan and Dadra.

CARNATIC MUSIC FEST

June 1 - 3 at Uttam Mancha: Rasikhapriya presents the mid-year series. June 1, 6.30 pm: Vidya Kalyanaraman (vocal), with M. Rajeev (violin) and S. Harish Kumar (mridangam). June 2, 4.15 pm: Mohan Santhanam (vocal), with V.V. Ravi (violin) and R. Sankaranarayanan (mridangam); at 6.30 pm: Geetha Krishnamurthy (veena) with Tirupathi M. Sudhakar (mridangam) and N. Rajaraman (ghatam). June 3, 4.15 pm: Amritha Murali (vocal), with Poorna Vaidhyanathan (violin) and R. Sankaranarayanan (mridangam); at 6.30 pm: R. Suryaprakash (vocal) with V.V. Ravi (violin) and R. Sankaranarayanan (mridangam).

talk

May 29 at Ramakrishna Mission Institute of Culture, Shivananda Hall; 5.30 pm: Sitanath Goswami will speak in Bengali on Panchadashi. May 29 at Paschimbanga Bangla Akademi Sabhaghar (1st floor); 6 pm: Society for Preservation of Archival Laterials & Monuments of Calcutta hosts the Nisith Ranjan Ray Memorial Lecture 2006 by Rudraprasad Sengupta on Kolkatar Nataker Itihas. May 29 at Ramakrishna Vedanta Math, 19B Raja Rajkrishna Street; 7 pm: Swami Atmabodhananda will discuss in Bengali Sri Sri Mayer Katha. May 29 at Ramakrishna Math, Baranagar; 7 pm: Discourse of Vivekchudamani by Swami Chaitanyanandaji Maharaj.

PHOTOGRAPHS

June 1 - 4 at Kumar Ashutosh Institution (Main) Boys, near Dum Dum Junction/Metro station; 5 pm - 9 pm: Srijan hosts its Annual Photography Exhibition 2007.

FILM SHOW

May 29 - 31 at Max Mueller Bhavan; 6.30 pm: The Consulate General of Italy in Calcutta, in collaboration with Federation of Film Societies of India, presents a package of Italian films (with English subtitles). May 29: Three Steps Over Heaven by Luca Lucini. May 30: Stork Day by Antonio Albanese. May 31: I Love You in Every Language in the World by Leonardo Pieraccioni. May 31 at Gorky Sadan; 6.30 pm: Eisenstein Cine Club presents the premiere screening of Satyajit Ray Negatives - My Life with Manikda, directed by Bo Van der Werf.

IN MEMORIAM

May 29 at Gyan Manch; 6.30 pm: Shinjan Nrityalaya remembers Odissi dance master Padma Vibhushan Kelucharan Mahapatra where important personalities from the field of dance will recollect their association with Guruji and Nrityalaya members Kaberi Sen and Ishita Mandol will perform his choreography.

QUIZ

June 2 at Mahatma Ashwini Datta Memorial Hall, 94/2 Park Street, near Park Circus Tram Depot; 4 pm: World Quiz Championship. Registration from 3 pm. Details with Gautam Ghosh (#9830044093) or Souvik Basu (#9831445329).

WORKSHOP

May 29 - 31 at Nehru Children’s Museum; 2 pm - 5 pm: Workshop on human figure drawing to be conducted by Sanjoy Bhowmick for age group 10 years + to 16 years. May 29 - 31 at Nehru Children’s Museum; 3 pm - 6 pm: Workshop on songs of Atulprosad, Rajanikanta and D.L. Roy to be conducted by Nupurchhanda Ghosh for age group 7 years to 18 years. May 29 - 31, June 1 & 5 at Nehru Children’s Museum: Workshop on Kathak dance, with emphasis on choreography, to be conducted by Ashim Bandhu Bhattacharjee for age group 16 years + (10 am - 1 pm) and 10 years to 16 years (2 pm - 5 pm). June 1 - 7 at Ananda Shankar Centre for Performing Arts, 11F Palm Avenue; 5 pm - 7 pm: Summer Dance Workshop on contemporary technique for 8 years to 14 years. Details at #22905997/22809729.All those who wish events to be included in this column should write not less than a week ahead to: Time out, The Telegraph, 6, Prafulla Sarkar Street, Calcutta-700 001; Fax: 2234-8244

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