Belgian director Frank van Passel’s 2002 production of the romance drama Villa des Roses is the Classic Tuesdays film that will be presented on Tuesday at 6 pm at the National Gallery, Castellani House, Vlissengen Road, Georgetown.
A press release from National Gallery said that the film, adapted from the novel of the same name by Belgian writer Willem Elsschot, follows the story of a beautiful young widow, Louise Creteur (leading French actress Julie Delpy) who loses her husband in the Titanic disaster and must leave her country home to find work as a housemaid at an English pension (boarding house), ‘Villa des Roses’, in Paris, a city bustling and prosperous even as the threat of the First World War looms.
She begins a relationship with one of the boarding house guests, Richard Grunewald, a young German artist (Shaun Dingwall), despite being
