French Film Festival in Australia
This Friday evening, I climbed onto the plane to Paris. The take off was so bad that to take off my mind from the uneasy sensation in my stomach and head, I picked up the Air-france magazine. I was turning pages looking at pictures, cursing the pilot and the weather when I stumbled upon advertisements of these two interesting film festivals.
Unfortunately the first one is over by now but I guess there’s no harm in mentioning it:
10th Aisan Fim Festival in Deauville(www.deauvilleasia.com) featuring movies by Im Kwon-Taek, Jiang Wen, Jia Zhang. The small write-up said that the festival was to pay tribute to Chinese, Japanese and South Korean cinema through the works of aforementioned directors.
Where was India? Are we not a part of Asia? A part where the biggest movie industry resides!
Quickly coming to other one. The 19th french film festival is going on in Aurtralia. It started on 5th March and will go on till 6th April. So, there is still time for those of you who are in Australia and are interested in checking out some french cinema. Here’s the list of movies being screened:
To Each His Own Cinema
Paris
13m2
Apres Lui (After Him)
The Age Of Man
Anna M
A Secret
Chrysalis
Je crois que je l’aime (Could This Be Love?)
Truands (Crime Insiders)
L’invite (The Dinner Guest)
Le Voyage du ballon rouge (Flight Of The Red Balloon)
Gotta Dance!
Pars vite et reviens tard (Have Mercy On Us All)
The House
La Tete de Maman (In Mom’s Head)
L’ennemi intime (Intimate Enemies)
Jean de la Fontaine
Les Chanson d’amour (Love Songs)
Moliere
Odette Toulemonde
Le Prix a payer (The Price To Pay)
La Graine et le Mulet (The Secret Of The Grain)
La Disparue de Deauville (Trivial)
UV
J’attends quelqu’un (Waiting For Someone)
Naissance des pieuvres (Water Lilies)
Wicked Weekend
The Year After
Azur and Asmar (Animation)
POM
Princess of the Sun (Animation)
Le Ballon Rouge (The Red Balloon)
DOCUMENTARIES
Les Animaux amoureux (Animals In Love)
In Another Place
Lagerfeld Confidential
Let’s Say…
‘Animals in love’ reminded me of this youtube video :D
Anyway, here’s the official website of the festival: http://www.frenchfilmfestival.org/
Do let me know if any of you happen to catch any of these movies. May be a through a post if the movie is sufficiently interesting.
Happy viewing!
Anurag Kashyap
Abhay Deol
Dibakar Banerjee
Hansal Mehta
Khalid Mohamed
Kundan Shah
Anish Kuruvilla
Jaideep Verma
Manish Gupta
Navdeep Singh
Bhavani Iyer
D. Santosh
Onir
Ashvin Kumar
Ramu Ramanathan
Sudhir Mishra
Pankaj Advani
Revathy
Saurabh Shukla
Shilpa Shukla
Sujoy Ghosh
Suparn Verma
Santosh Sivan
Shashank Ghosh
Shivajee
Pavan Kaul
Partho Sen-Gupta
Prroshant Naryannan
Sam Langoria
Satish Kasetty
Neeraja – Your article comes a bit late :( The festival was in Sydney till 19 March and I did not even know about it. Sigh. Anyway, am going to be in Brisbane next weekend so might try and catch one if I can.
@anand ,
it was in melbourne as well and im stuck in Dufaaai
@Anand G
Sorry yaar but I posted as soon as I got back home. Hope you make it to some films in Brisbane. Good luck
Well I can vouch for
Le Balloon rouge
Moliere
To each his own cinema
Mithun, ‘To each his own cinema’ sounds very interesting.
‘Le Balloon rouge’ and ‘Le Voyage du ballon rouge’ are two different films?
Le Balloon Rouge is the 1956 french film which is nothing short of incredible.
Le voyage du balloon rouge is the Hsien remake which I haven’t seen. I’m a Hsien groupie so am pretty sure it will be pretty good as well.
ah ok, that explains it.