Alliance Francaise French Film Festival 14 March - 1 April 2012
EXTRA BY POPULAR DEMAND SCREENINGS
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AND IF WE ALL LIVED TOGETHER
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Book your tickets online for the CLOSING NIGHT
and win a Walking Tour of Montmartre in Paris!
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Experience a unique and intimate guided private tour through the inspiring od-world charm of Montmartre.
Herve your local artiste and guide knows the area like the back of his hand and will show you not only al the must-see sights, but also the secret spots not listed in your guide book and share stories and facts that will please you. Experience the real "Insiders" Paris!
To win a walking Tour of Montmartre proudly offered to you by Petite Paris for two people with an exclusive Tour Guide ending with a delicious wine and Cheese tasting and valid 12 months, please click here to book your ticket before Friday 30 March - 3pm.
After the booking, please send an email to culture@afbrisbane.com with the details of your booking in order to be registered for the drawing lot.
(Note: the prize includes the walking tour as above, flights to Paris not included - Bookings online only) |
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OPENING NIGHT FILM & PARTY
Brisbane Première of DECLARATION OF WAR followed by the official Opening Night Gala.
Wednesday 14 March 6.30pm for 7pm, Palace Centro
Members $50/ non-members $55
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DECLARATION OF WAR
Director: Valérie Donzelli
Cast: Valérie Donzelli, Jérémie Elkaïm, César Desseix, Gabriel Elkaïm, Michèle Moretti, Béatrice de Staël
Based on real-life events experienced by filmmaker Valérie Donzelli and co-star/writer Jérémie Elkaïm, Declaration of War tells the powerful story of a young Parisian couple suddenly dragged from their carefree existence by an unexpected twist of fate.
Beautiful Juliette (Valérie Donzelli) and dashing Romeo (Jérémie Elkaïm) are two insouciant souls whose electric first encounter and rapid storybook romance is quickly followed by the birth of a child. But their lives are transformed overnight when a visit to their pediatrician results in a shocking verdict: their infant son Adam is critically ill.
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CLOSING NIGHT EVENT
Sunday 1 April, 7.15pm Closing Night reception for 8pm, Palace Barracks
Join us to celebrate French Cinema Forever: THE LAST METRO preceded by complimentary glass of wine with themed entertainment
Members $25/non-members $30
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THE LAST METRO
Director: François Truffaut
Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Gérard Depardieu, Jean Poiret Andréa Ferréol, Jean-Louis Richard
Paris, 1942. Paris is under Nazi occupation. Catherine Deneuve plays Marion Steiner who is left to manage a small theatre company, the Montmartre, when her Jewish husband Lucas is forced into exile under the German occupation of Paris. Marion stars in the company’s new play, The Disappearance, alongside Bernard Granger (Gérard Depardieu), a womanising but talented actor who is also a member of the Resistance. As Bernard’s passion for Marion grows, emotional complications arise between the two and loyalties are compromised due to their respective connections.
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THE FRENCH-SPEAKING WORLD
Tuesday 20 March, 6pm arrival for 6.45pm screening, Palace Barracks
Enjoy the French atomosphe with a glass of wine and tastes of French cuisine before a special screening of NOTHING TO DECLARE
Members $22/non-members $26
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NOTHING TO DECLARE
Director: Dany Boon
Cast: Dany Boon, Benoît Poelvoorde, Julie Bernard, Karin Viard, François Damiens
Fiercely nationalistic Belgian customs officer Ruben Vandevoorde (Benoît Poelvoorde) detests all things French and is utterly dismayed when made to join a flying Franco-Belgian customs squad formed to combat a major drug trafficking ring.
On the other side of the border, Ruben’s mild-mannered French counterpart, Mathias Ducatel (Dany Boon) is secretly in love with Ruben’s sister whom he dreams of marrying. Determined to win the respect of her cont rolling brother, Mathias surprises everyone when he volunteers to partner Ruben in his quest to hunt-down the drug traffickers, and in so doing, gain his consent to marry his sister. But whether Ruben’s ingrained bigotry can be swayed remains to be seen!
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LOVE AND CHOCOLATE
Thursday 22 March, 6pm arrival for 6.45pm screening, Palace Centro
Enjoy a glass of wine and French cuisine before indulging in romantic comedy ROMANTICS ANONYMOUS
Members $22/non-members $26
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ROMANTICS ANONYMOUS
Director: Jean-Pierre Améris
Cast: Benoît Poelvoorde, Isabelle Carré, Alice Pol, Lorella Cravotta, Pierre Niney
Two chocolate makers find the perfect recipe for love in this moving comedy that has wowed French audiences. Jean-René (Benoît Poelvoorde) is the owner of a chocolate factory. Angélique (Isabelle Carré) is a talented chocolate maker who wants to remain anonymous. As fate would have it, Jean-René employs her to sell his factory’s chocolates. They are both emotionally-challenged people – too shy to talk to others, make encounters, or anything beyond that. But both of them, desperately suffering from this illness, are willing to cure themselves.
Drawn together through a shared passion for chocolate, Jean-René and Angélique fall in love, but their crippling shyness is driving them apart, leading to hilarious and unexpected situations. Eventually, they manage to overcome their lack of self-confidence, and risk baring their true emotions.
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A NIGHT IN PROVENCE
Tuesday 27 March, 6pm arrival for 6.45pm screening, Palace Centro
Immerse yourself in the French culture with a glass of wine and french cuisine followed by THE WELL-DIGGER'S DAUGHTER
Members $22/non-members $26
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THE WELL-DIGGER'S DAUGHTER
Director: Daniel Auteuil
Cast: Daniel Auteuil, Kad Merad, Sabine Azéma, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Astrid Berges-Frisbey, Nicolas Duvauchelle
It’s the beginning of the Second World War. Patricia (Astrid Berges-Frisbey) is young, beautiful and the apple of her adoring father’s eye. A chance encounter with Jacques Mazel (Nicolas Duvauchelle), a seductive and handsome pilot from a bourgeois family, leads to a fleeting romance. They meet but twice. No sooner have the pair fallen in love is Jacques sent off to fight in the war, leaving Patricia behind – and pregnant.
A rift erupts between Patricia and her father (Daniel Auteuil) and the Mazels refuse to acknowledge their grandchild, having no desire for th eir superior genes to intermix with those of a lesser class. But what will happen when Jacques is reported missing? Will compassion triumph in the end?
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SCHOOL SCREENINGS
For bookings, please email: melissa.woite@palacecinemas.com.au
If you wish to book a 45min fun activity organised by one of our teacher from the Alliance Française de Brisbane after the movie, please mention it in your booking.
All the school screenings happen at the Palace Centro.
Educational booklets accompany the children movies. They have been elaborated by the teachers of Alliance Française Federation. They are ready to use resources to be developped in the class, before or after the screenings. Please download them below.
THE WAR OF THE BUTTONS
Director: Yann Samuell
Cast: Alain Chabat, Eric Elmosnino, Mathilde Seigner, Fred Testot, Salomé Lemire
Schedule : Thu 15 Mar - 11am / Fri 16 Mar - 10 am / Thu 22 Mar - 10 am
Yr 8-10
From the furtive imagination of writer/director Yann Samuell comes the smash-hit adaptation of Louis Pergaud’s classic 1912 novel (a book long on the French curriculum and reprinted over thirty times!) about the rivalry between children from two villages.
A gang of boys, aged 7 to 14 led by the intrepid Lebrac (Vincent Bres) are at war with the kids of the neighbouring township, their sworn enemies. In this uncompromising battle of honour and allegiances that’s been kept alive for generations, humiliation is the most fearsome defeat and no tactic is too extreme - even if it necessitates fighting naked or accepting the help offered by Lanterne (Salome Lemire) - a girl! She’s the gang’s new recruit, a tomboy full of panache and ingenuity – and it seems victory could now just be a skipping stone’s throw away. But it’s not easy to wage war without getting c aught by your parents…
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A NIGHT IN PROVENCE
Tuesday 27 March, 6pm arrival for 6.45pm screening, Palace Centro
Immerse yourself in the French culture with a glass of wine and french cuisine followed by THE WELL-DIGGER'S DAUGHTER
Members $22/non-members $26
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THE WELL-DIGGER'S DAUGHTER
Director: Daniel Auteuil
Cast: Daniel Auteuil, Kad Merad, Sabine Azéma, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Astrid Berges-Frisbey, Nicolas Duvauchelle
It’s the beginning of the Second World War. Patricia (Astrid Berges-Frisbey) is young, beautiful and the apple of her adoring father’s eye. A chance encounter with Jacques Mazel (Nicolas Duvauchelle), a seductive and handsome pilot from a bourgeois family, leads to a fleeting romance. They meet but twice. No sooner have the pair fallen in love is Jacques sent off to fight in the war, leaving Patricia behind – and pregnant.
A rift erupts between Patricia and her father (Daniel Auteuil) and the Mazels refuse to acknowledge their grandchild, having no desire for th eir superior genes to intermix with those of a lesser class. But what will happen when Jacques is reported missing? Will compassion triumph in the end?
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DUCOBU
Director:
Philippe de Chauveron
Cast: Vincent Claude, Elie Seimoun, Bruno Poladydès, Joséphine de Meaux, Helena Noguerra
Schedule : Fri 23 Mar - 10:30 am / Mon 26 Mar - 10:30am / Tue 27 Mar - 10:30am
Yr 4-7
Ducoboo, 11, is an incorrigible dunce, who has just been expelled from yet another school. His father, who raises him on his own, decides to enrol him at the Saint-Potache school, warning him that if he doesn’t improve his grades the next stop will be a boarding school. Saint-Potache is actually the last school who will accept Ducoboo. With this threat hovering over his head and despite a formidable opponent in his teacher, Mr Latouche (Elie Seimoun), Ducoboo displays boundless ingenuity in cheating and copying from his neighbour, Léonie, top of the class. Léonie finds her new neighbour both challenging and charming.
Will Mr Latouche succeed in showing the true face of Ducoboo?
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TALES OF THE NIGHT
Director: Michel Ocelot
Cast: Marine Griset, Julien Beramis, Yves Barsacq, Michel Elias, Isabelle Guiard (Animation)
Schedule : Fri 23 Mar - 10 am / Mon 26 Mar - 10am / Tue 27 Mar - 10 am
Prep & Yr 1-3
Every night, a girl, a boy and an elderly technician meet in a little cinema that seems abandoned, but is in fact full of wonders. The three friends research, draw, invent, dress up and act out the stories that take their fancy in a magical night where anything is possible – sorcerers and fairies, powerful kings and stable boys, werewolves and merciless ladies, cathedrals and straw huts, cities of gold and deep forests, the waves of harmony of choirs immense and the spells of a single tom-tom, malice that ravages and innocence that triumphs… The three of them are at the same time storytellers, cartoonists and actors of these fabulous stories.
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FACEBOOK FILMS
Films highlighted on our facebook page. Do not hesitate to join us : 
DELICACY
Director: David Foenkinos & Stéphane Foenkinos
Cast: Audrey Tautou, François Damiens, Bruno Todeschini, Audrey Fleurot, Pio Marmaï
Members $15 / Concession $16 / Adult $19 / Children (see classifications) $14
No person under the age of 15 shall be admitted to the screenings of this film unless in the company of an adult
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Based on the successful eponymous novel by David Foenkinos, this refreshing romantic comedy tells us about love’s strangeness.
Nathalie (played by the stunning Audrey Tautou, Amélie) has everything to be happy about: she is young, beautiful and madly in love with her husband François. But the accidental death of the latter radically changes her life. For years, Nathalie doesn’t go out anymore. She buries herself in work and puts her sentimental life aside, until one day when, without really knowing why, she kisses Markus (François Damiens), an insignificant
Swedish colleague, who is the antithesis of her late husband. What follows is this improbable couple’s sentimental waltz which attracts questioning and aggressiveness within the company.
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17 GIRLS
Director: Delphine & Muriel Coulin
Cast: Louise Grinberg, Juliette Darche, Roxane Duran, Esther Garrel, Noémie Lovovsky, Florence Thomassin, Carlo Brandt, Solène Rigot, Frédéric Noaille, Arthur Verret
Members $15 / Concession $16 / Adult $19 / Children (see classifications) $14
No person under the age of 15 shall be admitted to the screenings of this film unless in the company of an adult
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Between light comedy and drama, this debut film from the Coulin sisters is based on a true story. The film recounts how the accidental pregnancy of a young teenager leads to an epidemic of teen pregnancies.
The girls are all from the same school and all fall pregnant at the same time. First of all, their collective choice establishes a form of teenage utopia, as they plan a life without restraint, a life for themselves and their future children. It’s a dream, which harks back to the naïve sense of optimism typical of these tender teenage years.
But this act of emancipation also highlights a disturbing sense of feminism. When it comes to the option of abortion, parents of girls aged under eighteen are relatively powerless. In a legal sense, the girls themselves are fully responsible for this decision. This powerful film subsequently tracks the changes in the minds and bodies of these young girls, reminding us in an entirely unconventional way of what can happen on the journey to becoming a woman. |
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MY PIECE OF THE PIE
Director: Cédric Klapisch
Cast: Karin Viard, Gilles Lellouche, Audrey Lamy, Jean-Pierre Martins, Raphaële Godin
Members $15 / Concession $16 / Adult $19 / Children (see classifications) $14
No person under the age of 15 shall be admitted to the screenings of this film unless in the company of an adult
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Two worlds collide in this contemporary drama from Cédric Klapisch (L’Auberge Espagnole). Working-class single mother France (Karin Viard) finds herself at a crossroads when she loses her job when the local factory closes following a corporate merger. Mother of three daughters and separated from their father, she must find a solution and look for a new job. With few prospects in her small seaside town, she moves to Paris and secures a position as a housekeeper for Steve (Gilles Lellouche) - a handsome workaholic and successful businessman who leads a lavish lifestyle in Paris. Dedicated to her work and generous, France soon finds herself looking after Steve’s young son, whose mother has decided to leave for a couple of months. But there is more to Steve than meets the eye. What really lies behind his bravado? Will France accept everything?
With its comedic edge, this engaging social commentary reflects upon the realities of today’s power-hungry, money-driven society and the larger consequences of a single decision.
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AGAINST THE WIND
Director: Jalil Lespert
Cast: Benoît Magimel, Isabelle Carré, Audrey Tautou, Ramzy Bedia, Antoine Duléry
Members $15 / Concession $16 / Adult $19 / Children (see classifications) $14
No person under the age of 15 shall be admitted to the screenings of this film unless in the company of an adult
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From gifted actor-turned-director Jalil Lespert, Against The Wind is a radiant, emotional and superbly realised story of one father’s challenge to keep his family together.
One morning, Sarah (Audrey Tautou) vanishes, leaving her husband Paul (Little White Lies’ Benoît Magimel) and their young son and daughter reeling, without a word as to her whereabouts or a clue about when she will return. As time passes, Paul anxiously but tenderly tries to sustain some sense of normalcy and after a year, in an attempt to start over, he reluctantly returns to his coastal home town. There, he takes a job as a driving instructor, reunites with his estranged brother and befriends a local police officer (Isabelle Carré). But still he dreams of Sarah, refusing to let go.
Why did she leave, and will she return?
Based on a best-selling novel by Olivier Adam (the co-writer of Philippe Lioret’s Welcome), Against The Wind is a deeply moving family drama with immense depth and heart.
The bookclub meets up at Palace Centro Cinema on Friday 23 March at 6.45pm to see Against the wind. All avid readers welcome to share thoughts after the movie. |
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