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French Film Festival 2010
The French Film Festival is now 21 years old. For a long time it was the year that one came of age in France. The age one reaches maturity.
21 years over which the festival has grown, evolved and taken on new forms to finally become the great success which we know today. More than 80 000 spectators in 2009. I am sure that this record will be broken in 2010 when I see the wide range and number of quality films on offer: 43 films in all, comedies, love stories, thrillers of course but also films with a message which say no, no to the injustice of a system, a way of life, no to oppression. At the same time, films which also say yes, yes to human rights, to the freedom of thought and to dignity.
The fame of this festival has made it possible to welcome great stars from French cinema. Catherine Deneuve two years ago, and Gérard Jugnot last year. This year it will be Jean-Pierre Jeunet, the Director of a film which was very popular in Australia, «Le fabuleux destin d’Amélie Poulain» but you will also have heard of «Un long dimanche de fiançailles », «La Cité des enfants perdus» and «Delicatessen». He will be presenting his latest feature film «Micmacs à tire-larigot» for the opening night in Sydney and Melbourne.
It’s not necessary to remind you that modern means of communication bring individuals closer. It has nevertheless been a long time that cinema has removed the distances which separate men, allowing people to share and partake in different human experiences.
I am happy that the mutual understanding which exists between France and Australia finds in this festival a new opportunity to live to the full and to express itself.
Michel Filhol
French Ambassador in Australia
Here are some highlights of the festival:
Micmacs
Micmacs à Tire-Larigot
Director: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Actors: Dany Boon / André Dussollier / Yolande Moreau / Jean-Pierre Marielle / J. Ferier / O. Sy / D. Pinon
THREE CÉSAR NOMINATIONS! Best Art Direction, Costume Design, Sound
Jean-Pierre Jeunet's gorgeously romantic "Amélie" is unquestionably one of the most beloved and popular films of the last decade. His new piece of movie magic, and the Festival's Opening Night Gala for 2010, is MICMACS, a thrilling comedy centering on a group of misfits as they plan to bring down two big arms manufacturers.
Bazil (Dany Boon) is a man down on his luck following an accident that's left a bullet lodged in his brain, with a good chance that he could die at any moment. The story of his revenge is populated by a ragtag of characters with unique foibles and abilities.
Few directors are more imaginative and boundlessly inventive at creating their own distinctive on-screen worlds as Jeunet ("Delicatessen", "City of Lost Children"). With MICMACS, he's created another perfectly balanced blend of witty wordplay, edge-of-your-seat action and visual wizardry. A captivating must-see.
Gainsbourg : Je t'aime... moi non plus
Gainsbourg (vie héroïque)
Director: Joann Sfar
Actors: Eric Elmosnino / Laetitia Casta / M. Jampanoï / A. Mouglalis / Y. Moreau / S. Forestier / P. K aterine
The Festival's Closing Night Gala for 2010 is graphic novelist Joann Sfar's audacious directorial debut, an amusing and fantastical biopic of the debonair Serge Gainsbourg.
This surreal and evocative record of Monsieur Gainsbourg (Eric Elmosnino) - iconic singer, poet, writer, actor and general provocateur - traces his youth growing up in 1940s Nazi-occupied Paris, through to his transformation into the hard-living showman, enfant terrible and successful songwriter during three decades.
Elmosnino is a revelation as Gainsbourg, inhabiting the spirit and imagination that made him a charismatic star. Among the cast is Laetitia Casta as Bardot, the late Lucy Gordon as Birkin, Anna Mouglalis as Juliette Gréco, Sara Forestier as France Gall and Mylène Jampanoï as Bambou, the last love of his life. A visually and narratively innovative project that features special effects from the makers of Pan's Labyrinth, GAINSBOURG is inventive and groundbreaking filmmaking.
Fashion Victim
Rose & Noir
Director: Gérard Jugnot
Actors: Gérard Jugnot / Saïda Jawad / Bernard Le Coq / J. Diego / A. Bouab
From writer-director Gérard Jugnot ("Monsieur Batignole"), FASHION VICTIM is an irreverent new period comedy about a fashion designer, who in 1577 is sent headlong into the centre of the Spanish Inquisition!
Pic Saint Loup (Jugnot), a great couturier in decline, is entrusted with a diplomatic mission by Henri III: he must create his most beautiful ceremonial gown for the arranged marriage of one of the king's nephews with the daughter of a Spanish nobleman. So Saint Loup (who's not exactly straight) sets out on the road surrounded by his staff. The trouble is, his very talented assistant is a Moor, his perfumer a converted Jew, and his hairdresser's a raging queen - and in fundamentalist Catholic Spain, this makes them all extremely "persona non grata"...
A royal wedding, the Inquisition, outcasts, heretics and plotters make for an explosive and hilarious mix, with Jugnot again demonstrating great comic timing with this, his tenth film as director.
Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky
Director: Jan Kounen
Actors: Anna Mouglalis / Mads Mikkelsen
CÉSAR NOMINATION! Best Costume Design
Picking up the story of Chanel more or less from where Anne Fontaine's "Coco Avant Chanel" left off, director Jan Kounen beautifully captures the charisma of two monumental personalities against the opulent backdrops of 1920s Paris.
The opening sequence sets the film's grand tone by unfolding one of the great artistic scandals in its original venue: the 1913 premiere of revolutionary composer Stravinsky's radically modernist ballet, Rite of Spring, at the Théâtre des Champs-Elysées. Seven years later, rendered penniless by the violently negative reaction to his work, Stravinsky accepts the newly successful Chanel's offer to lodge him, his wife and four children, in her new villa 'Bel Respiro' in Garches. And so begins their frenzied liaison, paralleled by revolutionary ideas – the designer's desire to transform women's fashions and the composer's redefinition of musical taste.
COCO CHANEL & IGOR STRAVINSKY embraces the brilliance of these two rebels, dissecting the intimacies of their personal lives with an empathy that leaves the viewer reaching for superlatives.
French Film Festival 2010
Dates and Venues:
Sydney 02-21/03/10 PALACE ACADEMY TWIN, VERONA & NORTON STREET CINEMAS
Melbourne 04-21/03/10 PALACE CINEMA COMO, PALACE BALWYN, PALA CE WESTGARTH & KINO CINEMAS
Canberra 18-31/03/10 GREATER UNION CINEMA & ARC CINEMA, NFSA
Brisbane 17-31/03/10 PALACE CENTRO CINEMA & PALACE BARRACKS CINEMA
Perth 17-31/03/10 CINEMA PARADISO & LUNA ON SIX
Adelaide 18-31/03/10 PALACE NOVA EASTEND CINEMA
Official Site: www.frenchfilmfestival.org
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