
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: THURSDAY, February 3, 1994                   TAG: 9402090222
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MALLE FEATURE OPENS FILM FESTIVAL

Hollins College's annual French Film Festival begins Feb. 15 with Louis Malle's first feature, ``Elevator to the Gallows.'' The 1958 film is about an aging war hero and his boss's wife who contrive to murder her husband.

The festival continues Feb. 22 with Jean-Luc Goddard`s and Jean-Pierre Gorin's ``Tout Va Bien.'' This 1972 film chronicles the breakdown of a relationship between a TV director and an American journalist (Jane Fonda) who becomes radicalized by a factory strike she covers.

Robin Davis's ``I Married a Shadow'' plays March 1. This 1982 thriller stars Nathalie Baye as a young woman who walks out on her lover and is hurled into a world of intrigue.

The festival concludes March 8 with ``L'Argent," a 1983 story of materialism. Specifically, this film follows the consequences of passing a counterfeit 500 franc note.

All films will be screened in the Dana Science Building's Babcock Auditorium at 8 p.m. English subtitles are provided, and the films are free.

by CNB