Once in a Lifetime

Jockey Club Auditorium, PolyU

Le French May - Film Screening: Once in a Lifetime

Bonjour! We're pairing up with Le French May to present three magnificent programmes to PolyU students and staff on campus this May. Many of you have already enjoyed Jo Bithume Company's electrifying music and Lise de la Salle's exquisite piano recital. This time we're going to showcase the French's genius for the cinema.

Synopsis of Once in a Lifetime

This is the toughest high school class Ms Gueguen (Ariane Ascaride) has ever taught, but Ms Gueguen is not an ordinary history teacher. On the first day of school, Ms Gueguen forbids her students from caps, earphones, and chewing gums in class. Impulsive, self-centeredand materialistic, her students do not seem 'reformable' at all. But Ms Gueguen sees hope in them and is determined to 'educate' them. She compels her students to participate in a national high school competition on the theme of 'Children and Teenagers in Nazi Concentration Camps'. Will the lives of her students be transformed? Based on a true story, the screenplay is co-written by the leading actor Ahmed Dramé and the director.

Film Screening: Once in a Lifetime

26 May 2015 (Tuesday)

7:30 PM

Jockey Club Auditorium, PolyU

*Enrol before 26 May 2015

Co-presented by

Consulate General of France in Hong Kong & Macau

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University

Thanks for my fd's invitation, it is a good movie! I haven't watched French movie for long time. To be frankly, the rhythm and mood of French movie is quite different from the usual Holloywood one I saw. But this one is an attractive movie, especially it involved concentration camp. I like the music as well. THey used Chopin and French composer's music through the movie and highlighted the mood.

Nazi concentration camp is a horrible memory, in human being's history.