Fairhope Film Festival presents: The Girl from Monaco

03/19/2010

Doors open at 6:30 p.m. I wonder if in France, where he’s better known, people speak of a “Fabrice Luchini type.” Mr. Luchini, 57, who has appeared in dozens of movies, has over the years refined an adaptable persona that is recognizable across genres and periods. His startled-looking eyes, delicate chin and slight overbite convey a mixture of cynicism and cluelessness, as mature worldliness seems to do battle with childlike credulity. In “The Girl From Monaco” Mr. Luchini plays Bertrand Beauvois, an eminent Parisian lawyer who travels to that notorious principality on the Mediterranean to defend a 70-year-old woman (Stéphane Audran) implicated in a tawdry, tabloid-feeding murder. The case, however, proves to be something of a distraction, since Bertrand’s attention is quickly hijacked by Audrey Varella (Louise Bourgoin), a minor local celebrity — and major party girl — whose television weather report pretty much makes ordering soft-core pay-per-view on hotel-room cable redundant. If in the end “The Girl From Monaco” is neither a cogent psychological thriller nor an effervescent sex comedy, it does at least have an interesting sense of place.

Fairhope's 58th Annual Arts and Crafts Festival

03/19/2010

Festival hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. daily. Over 200 exhibitors from throughout the nation will bring their best works to show and sell at this prestigious juried show. Live entertainment will be going on throughout the three-day event and unique cuisine will be served up in the food court. It all takes place on the streets of beautiful downtown Fairhope, Alabama. BRATS will offer a shuttle service from the Plantation Pointe Shopping Center, Eastern Shore Village Shopping Center and Ecor Rouge Place. All of the parking is free and the locations are less than a five-minute ride away. The shuttle ride costs only $1.

PZK Center Dances

03/19/2010

7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. Soft drinks and coffee will be provided. Those attending should bring finger food to share.

10th Annual Gulf Coast Fun in the Sun Corvette Show

03/20/2010

11:00 a.m.-2:00 p.m. Corvettes, Corvettes, Corvettes! Come out and vote for your favorite. Trophies awarded according to the most People-Choice votes.