23rd Cork French Film Festival presents

An Enchanting Evening in The Grain Store you will not want to miss!
Friday 9th March 2012
Dinner followed by silent film screening with live piano accompaniment
Seven Year’s of Bad Luck Max Linder, France 1921

Max breaks his full-length mirror and fears that he may be in for seven years of bad luck. It appears that this is exactly what has happened.
Perhaps a man before his time Max Linder was the screen's earliest distinc-tive film character. At a time when comedy was broadly played for laughs, Max Linder was invariably a nattily-dressed sophisticate, the wastrel son of wealthy parents who got into one scrape after another yet who always emerged unscathed. One can see from this the seeds of ideas that were later adapted by Chaplin, Etaix and others. After Max Linder's death, Chaplin dedicated one of his films: "For the unique Max, the great master - his disci-ple Charles Chaplin".
Paule Cornet – Pianist & Composer
After studying classical piano, she studied jazz composition and arrangement in Lyon and Miami. She writes music for the cinema (The Beaches of Agnès), various jazz groups and practises Brazilian percussion.

Date: Friday 9th March 2012
Venue: Grain Store at Ballymaloe
Door 6pm
Price: 60euro
Dress code: cocktail
Bookings for dinner and cine-concert at:
Ballymaloe, Shanagarry, Co Cork, Ireland.
021 4652531 res@ballymaloe.ie
Cine-concert only
Time: 8.30pm
Price: 15euro
Bookings at:021 4651511
thegrainstore@ballymaloe.ie