Saturday February 27
Annual Meeting 5 – 6 PM
Snacks and Chat 6 – 7 PM
Then at 7 PM Conjure Cinema presents:
The Extraordinary Adventures Of Adèle Blanc-Sec (2010)
[aka Adèle: The Rise of the Mummy]
Fee: Admission is FREE!
Refreshments will be available for sale to help defray costs.
(No potluck :D) Alcohol is not allowed at the venue.
Our brief, entertaining Annual Meeting is FREE and OPEN to ALL! It’s a great way to meet and catch up with old and new friends, and find out what the SEF has been up to this year. Renew your membership, or get information about joining SEF.
From Sarah Rainey’s review of the film in The Telegraph (UK): “If you want a movie that combines the thrills of Tomb Raider with the fashions of La Boheme, then look no further. The Extraordinary Adventures of Adèle Blanc-Sec has it all: dinosaurs, Egyptian mummies and a female adventurer with a spectacular collection of hats.
Based on the comic strip by Jacques Tardi, the film traces the journey of madcap novelist Blanc-Sec (Louise Bourgoin) – “dry white, like the wine” – who spends her days travelling to perilous and far-flung corners of the world in search of material for her next book.
We meet her in Egypt, 1911, where she has trekked into the desert to the tomb of Pharaoh Ramses II. The intrepid explorer enlists the help of oddball Professor Espérandieu (Jacky Nercessian), who claims he can raise the pharaoh’s doctor from the dead to cure Blanc-Sec’s dying sister, who was impaled on a hat pin in a freak tennis accident.
Meanwhile, in Paris, the nutty professor has proven his powers by hatching a baby pterodactyl from a 136 million-year-old egg in the natural history museum.
Tasked with ridding the city of the winged beast, Clouseau-like Inspector Caponi (Gilles Lellouche), turns to Blanc-Sec, who has returned to Paris with a shrivelled mummy in tow. Cue much hilarity, glamorous costume changes and a series of close scrapes as she fends off arch-nemesis Dieuleveult (Mathieu Amalric) and the advances of a besotted botanical scientist.”
This film, like our last feature shown (Solomon Kane) is a wonderful, little-known film, which is a shame, as it is a delight for young and old. The second of three films we had originally intended to show for Conjure Cinema’s last season (before it was cut short), we will be showing the uncut European Blu-ray release, with extra footage not seen in the American DVD release. Take a look at the original trailer below!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a6djPGS3RCA
For the full story, see this article by the All-Knowing Film Wizard himself:
How it All Began
