Galway Film Society

Heartbreaker

Dir: Pascal Chaumeil - France 2010 - 104 mins

Alex is a smoothie seducer secretly hired by glowering fathers to break up their daughters’ unsuitable relationships. Yet he’s a gigolo-assassin with principles. Alex won’t get involved unless he judges the relationship to be unhappy anyway, and won’t actually sleep with the target. He is commissioned by a wealthy magnate to be “bodyguard” for his daughter Juliette. Does Alex stay professionally detached and resist the urge to fall heart-shatteringly in love with lonely, vulnerable Juliette? Heartbreaker, starring some of France's most acclaimed stars, Romain Duris (The Beat That My Heart Skipped) and César Award winner Vanessa Paradis (Girl on the Bridge) is shot in the glamour and whimsy of Monte Carlo. This charming and unique romantic comedy will have audiences buckling with laughter and Chaumeil beautifully illustrates that love and laughter are the best universal languages.

The following short film will be screened before the feature:

The Herd

Dir: Ken Wardrop - Ireland 2009 - 4 mins

A farmer finds a deer befriending his herd of cattle.