Watch the trailer for Antoinette in the Cevennes, in Aussie cinemas from April 8!
She portrays the titular Antoinette, a primary school teacher whose long-planned summer vacation with her married lover Vladimir (Benjamin Lavernhe) is upended when she discovers he is taking his family on a hiking trip in the picturesque Cévennes National Park instead.
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Antoinette - completely unversed in the ways of the wilderness - decides to follow their trail and, paired with an unlikely donkey companion, discovers much more than she bargained for.
Antoi...
Marguerite Competition
Inspired by the life of Florence Foster Jenkins. 1921, the beginning of the Golden Twenties. Not far from Paris it is party day at Marguerite Dumont’s castle. Like every year, an array of music lovers gathers around a great cause at the owner’s place. Nobody knows much about this woman except that she is rich and that her whole life is devoted to her passion: music. Marguerite sings. She sings wholeheartedly, but she sings terribly out of tune.
When a young, provocative journalist ...
Partisan Competition
Alexander is like any other kid: playful, curious and naive. He is also a trained assassin. Raised in a hidden paradise on the outskirts of town, Alexander has grown up seeing the world through the eyes of his father, Gregori. As Alexander begins to think for himself, creeping fears take shape and Gregori’s idyllic world unravels.
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Competition will be drawn 27 May 2015, winners will be ...
Samba Competition
The film has experienced great success at the French box office and has also been selected to screen at the Alliance Francaise French Film Festival 2015!
Samba migrated to France 10 years ago from Senegal, and has since been plugging away at various lowly jobs. Alice is a senior executive who has recently undergone a burnout. Both struggle to get out of their dead-end lives Samba's willing to do whatever it takes to get working papers, while Alice tries to get her life back on track ...
Impressions of Paris Exhibition: Lautrec, Degas, Daumier
Impressions of Paris: Lautrec, Degas, Daumier examines the major contribution to French art made by three key figures: Honoré-Victorin Daumier (1808–1879), Edgar Degas (1834–1917) and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901). A generation apart, each was a consummate draughtsman whose innovative compositions and embrace of modern subject matter played a significant role in artistic developments in France over the nineteenth century.
During the 1800s Paris had witnessed the remarkable ...
