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Alliance Française French Film Festival 2011
Approaching its 22nd sensational year, the Alliance Française French Film Festival offers an ambitious national program over 4 weeks traditionally including 40+ films which have been commercially released in France the previous year. The best of contemporary French cinema includes action, romance, comedy, thrillers, children’s films, animation and documentaries.
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As one of Australia’s only national film events it has great appeal to national media and sponsors. It is the largest foreign film festival in Australia.
Here are some highlights from the festival:
Potiche
Toronto International Film Festival 2010: Gala Presentations
Venice International Film Festival 2010: In Competition
Catherine Deneuve, in one of her finest comic roles, stars as a housewife who discovers she’s a natural born leader in the infectious new comedy from François Ozon (Eight Women).
In 1977 in the small northern town of Sainte-Gudule we meet Suzanne Pujol (Deneuve), an impossibly glamorous neglected housewife - a potiche, a decorative object - whose husband Robert (Fabrice Luchini) cheats on her, ignores her in favour of tyrannically running her family's umbrella making factory and even forgets her birthday. Suzanne is uncomplaining and irreproachably coiffed, turning a blind eye to her husband's indiscretions until the stress of striking workers destroys his health and leaves her temporarily in charge of running the company!
Ozon's stylish and charismatic international hit, based on a play by Barillet and Grédy, also features Gérard Depardieu and is guaranteed to open the Festival with pizzazz.
Carlos, Le Chacal
Continuing his pattern for oscillating between contrasting cinematic styles, Olivier Assayas (Summer Hours, Boarding Gate) returns with a pulsing, sublime theatrical-cut of his landmark five-and-a-half hour eponymous trilogy, a fictional biography of the notorious Venezuelan revolutionary who was once the world's most wanted terrorist.
Carlos chronicles two decades in the life of notorious international terrorist Ilich Ramirez Sanchez, known as Carlos the Jackal, who in Assayas’ depiction, lived the life of a revolutionary rock star as he went from doctrinaire militant to free-wheeling mercenary, indulging in guns and women, with ideology increasingly becoming an afterthought as he became more and more concerned with fame and his fearsome reputation, all the while declaring himself a pure revolutionary concerned with the struggles of the oppressed.
This must-see masterpiece captures the rise and fall of one of the most feared terrorists of modern times, featuring a riveting central performance - mercurial and multi-lingual - from Edgar Ramirez (The Bourne Ultimatum). This is a great piece of muscular, intelligent cinema.
Five Brothers
No super powers, no car chases and no special effects. Instead this is a bravura return to the deftly plotted and brilliantly acted 'polars' (French noir thrillers) of the 50s and 60s.
Five brothers were raised by a mother who was widowed at a young age. When one of the brothers reappears on the scene with the mob hot on his heels, he takes refuge with his family and reveals a long hidden secret. Together again, the family must find the strength to defend themselves and avenge their murdered father.
Veteran director Alexandre Arcady has created a fast-paced thriller with a dynamic cast, including a memorable Françoise Fabian as the boys’ mother.
The Arrivals
Claudine Bories and Patrice Chagnard's frank documentary looks at an immigration centre in Paris from the points of view of those most involved: the refugee families looking for asylum and a new life, and the caseworkers whose task it is to try and help them find it.
The film relates the frustrations of two social workers, Caroline, young and impulsive, and Colette, older and compassionate. The "arrivals" are often exhausted but surprisingly obstinate, with stories both exasperating and moving, while the two caseworkers are irritated by limited resources, bureaucracy and the sheer volume of refugees they must deal with.
Bories and Chagnard - in a film that marks the emergence of two powerful voices in documentary filmmaking - capture this to perfection with a roving camera that conveys the hectic action in the centre as well as the tense atmosphere that often develops between people on two sides of what sometimes seems like an insurmountable wall.
The Alliance Française French Film Festival 2011
Dates and Venues:
Sydney 08-27/03/2011 Multiple Venues around Sydney
Melbourne 09-27/03/2011 Multiple Venues around Melbourne
Canberra 16/03-03/04/2011 Greater Union and ARC Cinemas
Brisbane 16/03-03/04/2011 Palace Centro and Barracks Cinemas
Perth 23/03-10/04/2011 Cinema Paradiso and Luna on SX
Adelaide 23/03-10/04/2011 Palace Nova
Official Site: www.frenchfilmfestival.org
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