The French Films Season Is On!

With the Alliance Francaise French Film Festival 2014 that officially started last Tuesday in Sydney, the season for French films is at its peak.

Throughout March enjoy a series of French films or films taking place in France. This year again, the festival covers a diversity of genres from family dramas, light comedies, epic feudal stories to animated films for kids. It tackles also serious subjects with different lights. ‘Me, myself and mum’ is a very exceptional sweet and sour comedy about finding one’s sexual identity. ‘The finishers’ with the great Jacques Gamblin is an inspiring family story about overcoming disability by embarking on a challenge of a lifetime in the form of an ironman event. On a lighter note, Cesar winner Omar Sy is back this year with ‘On the other side of the tracks’, a hilarious, high-octane action comedy about mismatched cops in the grand tradition of Beverly Hills Cop, Lethal Weapon and 48 Hours. For its 25th anniversary, the festival pays a tribute to one of the greatest movie directors, Francois Truffaut (1932-1984), one of the founders of the French New Wave, and will play some of his masterpieces such as ‘Jules and Jim’, ‘Finally, Sunday!’ and ‘The 400 Blows’. Also, this year, the festival will feature some of the FIFO documentaries – a film festival that happens every year in Tahiti, with for example a documentary about ‘Jacques Brel, the Home Stretch’.

Alongside the Alliance Francaise French Film Festival – the biggest French Film Festival in the world – after Cannes Film Festival, still playing in the cinemas:

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– ‘Blue is the warmest colour’ (La Vie d’Adele) – Winner of the Palm d’Or at Cannes Film Festival, this powerful film is a must-see and will challenge many.
Adele’s life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire, to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adele grows, seeks herself, loses herself and ultimately finds herself through love and loss.
Director: Abdellatif Kechiche
Writers: Abdellatif Kechiche
Stars: Léa Seydoux, Adèle Exarchopoulos

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– ‘Le Week-End’
A British couple return to Paris many years after their honeymoon there in an attempt to rejuvenate their marriage. It’s an authentic, fresh and funny film.

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-‘The Gilded Cage’
Writer/director Ruben Alves’ enormously charming, semi-autobiographical Parisian comedy is the story of a loving, hardworking married couple whose long-held dream of returning to their homeland finally comes true – only to be secretly undermined by their friends and neighbours.
The ‘Gilded Cage’ won People’s Choice Award for Best European Film in 2013.

And soon to come:

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– ‘Chinese Puzzle’, latest Cedric Klapisch’s comedy, features Romain Duris, Audrey Tautou, Cecile De France, Kelly Reilly.
A 40-year-old father of two, still finds life very complicated. When the mother of his children moves to New York, he can’t bear them growing up far away from him and so he decides to move there as well.

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– ‘Exit to Marrakech’, as part of the German Film Festival starting on March 26th in Sydney. This drama by Caroline Link is set in beautiful and colourful Marocco and features uprising star Hafsia Herzi (‘The Secret of the Grain’ for which she won the Most Promising Actress Cesar).

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The French Films Season Is On!