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| We're celebrating the 21st anniversay of the wildly popular Alliance Française French Film Festival, and this year will also celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Alliance Française in Adelaide. |
This year the Festival is bigger than ever with 25% more films and 30% more sessions!
For the first time in its 21 year history, the Festival will feature six distinctive sections encompassing a range of genres that will showcase an impressive forty three new French Films: Blood Is Thicker Than Water, First Feature Film, Comedy, Love At First Sight, Resistance and Kids. |
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2010 Gala Opening Night:
MICMACS
AMELIE director Jean-Pierre Jeunet brings his trademark style and whimsy back to the screen with the thrilling new comedy MICMACS.
Jean-Pierre Jeunet is one of cinema’s most inventive and inspired talents and the creator of Amelie, Delicatessen and A Very Long Engagement. In his new film MICMACS, a man and his friends come up with an intricate and original plan to destroy two big weapons manufacturers, and in the process find answers to such questions as: Are zebras white with black stripes or black with white stripes? Can you get drunk from eating waffles? What's the human cannonball world record? Can a woman fit inside a refrigerator? Is it better to live with a bullet lodged in your brain, or have it removed?
"Packed with great little touches and
surreal flights of fancy, this is witty,
wonderfully inventive as well as a visual joy"
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Join us for a fun-filled celebration with French cinema, wine and food!
The cocktail party will commence after the Adelaide premiere of the opening night film, Micmacs.
 Thursday 18 March at Palace Eastend Cinema.
7.00pm screening of the main feature
All tickets $40 |
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2010 Closing Night event:
Gainsbourg: Je T'aime
... moi non plus |
Meet the filmmaker event:
Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinksy |
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The Festival's Closing night event is graphic novelist Joann Sfar's audacious directorial debut, an amusing and fantastical biopic of the debonair Serge Gainsbourg - iconic singer, poet, writer, actor and general provocateur. It traces his youth growing up in 1940s Nazi-occupied Paris, through to his transformation into the hard-living showman, enfant terrible and successful songwriter of the 50s and 60s (as famous for his glamorous lovers including Brigitte Bardot and Jane Birkin as he was was for penning such hits as Je t’aime … moi non plus.
Wednesday March 31, 9.30pm. Tickets are $18 members/concession and $21, and include a Cointreau Blush Cocktail on arrival.
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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.
Director Jan Kounen will be our special guest at the screening.
Sunday March 28, 6.30pm.
He will introduce the film and conduct a question and answer discussion after. Tickets usual prices.
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The 21st annual Alliance Francaise French Film Festival, presented by Tefal, will screen at Palace Nova Eastend Cinemas from March 18 to 31.
Featuring the best of French Cinema over the past 18 months, this is an event not to be missed.
Details of the programme are available at
 www.frenchfilmfestival.org |
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Renée Fleming stars in Verdi's La Traviata, presented by the Royal Opera
Fri: 11.30am N, Sat, Sun: 1.00pm N, Wed: 6.30pm N |
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THE HABIT OF ART
by Alan Bennett
Two performances only - SAT MAY 8 at 1.00pm and
SUN MAY 9 at 1.00pm
Starring: Richard Griffiths, Alex Jennings and Frances de la Tour.
Bennett returns to the National following the huge success of his Laurence Olivier and Tony Award-winning play The History Boys with a new work The Habit Of Art. Directed by Nicholas Hytner, the new play involves W H Auden in his last years and includes a fictional meeting between the poet and the composer Benjamin Britten, who famously fell out in the 1940s after a long friendship.
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View trailer here
For additional information visit: www.NTLive.info
An initiative of London’s National Theatre, NT Live is dedicated to the high definition broadcast of live performances around the world.
 NT Live is supported by Travelex and is distributed by Sharmill Films. |
TICKETS ON SALE NOW from the Box Office or online |
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Warren Miller's 60th annual film, DYNASTY reveals the past, present, and future of winter sport. It is a film that gathers the generations under one filmic roof, from the Crist Family Patriarch to Glen Plake to Daron Rahlves, and the youth explosion of terrain park talent they've inspired. It's like a family reunion, held in neck deep pow, with mandatory air required for entry.
Once again hosted by Jonny Moseley, this year's film finds epic snowfall, insane big mountain lines, and huge air in places like Washington's Crystal Mountain, Lake Tahoe's Sierra Nevada mountains, and all across Colorado. It's a one-of-a-kind look at a world you know like your own family. And it leaves no snowball unturned in celebrating everyone who has, does, and will forever be a part of Warren Miller's Dynasty.
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