25TH ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE FRENCH FILM FESTIVAL
Image: Bright Days Ahead
French cinema has never been more popular in Australia and The Alliance Française French Film Festival returns celebrating its 25th anniversary with sophisticated and vibrant new cinema from France. It will showcase a selection of contemporary films including comedies, dramas and documentaries.
This is the biggest foreign film festival in Australia and admissions escalate annually as moviegoers are increasingly mesmerised by French culture. The festival boasts forty-six features of which only six have been screened publicly.
A variety of genres is one of the main characteristics of French cinema which allures audiences.
Bright Days Ahead is a romantic comedy exploring an older woman/younger man relationship and The Finishers is an emotional sporting feature about a wheelchair-bound teenager.
Jappeloup is the inspiring true story of an Olympic victory by a man and his horse and La Monique, A Caledonian Wound is an outstanding documentary revisiting the mysterious disappearance of a passenger liner in1953.
Families will be delighted by Kiddies’ Korner, a selection of live and animated shorts and highly-anticipated Belle And Sebastian, the heart warming story of a boy and his dog set against the backdrop of World War II. (MM)
March 4-23, Palace Norton Street, 99 Norton St, Leichhardt; Palace Verona, 17 Oxford St, Paddington; Chauvel Cinema, Oxford St & Oatley Rd, Paddington; Hayden Orpheum, 380 Military Rd, Cremorne, $15-19.50, affrenchfilmfestival.org
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