 The Kid has a potential new school to visit at the end of the month.
As if that weren't enough for a special Saturday's excitement or disappointment, Marianne's already obtained her Mum's agreement to let her be in Paris in time to take me to see 'Immortel'.
Of all the interesting prospects recently trailed in the cinemas, this looks set to be one of the best.
 The poster's yet to appear on the streets, but the style is instantly recognisable.
We're both hot fans of Yugoslav-born artist Enki Bilal, whose work I've mentioned before.
His third film -- drawing on characters from 'La Foire aux Immortels' (a 1980 "comic" book series) is released here next Wednesday and is already all over the multi-media press.
The original, available in English as 'The Nikopol Trilogy', takes place in the Paris of 2023, but presumably in one of Bilal's rare concessions to the demands of the market, the film's set in New York, 2095.
It looks stunning, going by the trailer and some of the most prolific pre-release work I've seen in magazines since the original 'Matrix'.
 The 'Immortel Ad Vitam' movie site is in French, as is by far the best Enki Bilal site, but 'The MovieBox' offers a synopsis and other details in English, with some further links.
The star with the striking hairstyle is Linda Hardy, who came came to public notice as Miss France 1992 (photo credit: Marianne Rosenstiehl of H&K).
She made her first film, 'Recto Verso' (Allociné, Fr.) six years later.
Though little more than an unpretentious comedy, it had the merit of being out of the ordinary, which makes Hardy a prime candidate for the 'Final Fantasy' treatment.
 Charlotte Rampling's also in 'Immortel'.
This can only bode well, as does the choice of Thomas Kretschmann, who was brilliant in Polanki's 'The Pianist' (Rotten Tomatoes), to play Nikopol.
While I'm not in the habit of saying much about films before I review them, this has to be an exception.
It's even inspired yet another noteworthy addition to the multi-media press here, making the cover of the promising 'Parallax' N° 1 (no site ... yet).
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