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Quand j'étais chanteur (The Singer) |
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12 weeks to go!
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 France 2006 / directed by Xavier Gianolli / 112 mins / rated M
A hit at the Cannes Film Festival, Gerard Depardieu plays an ageing singer who performs in local dancehalls and tea clubs. Singing is his life and he knows that he will never be great. Life suddenly takes a new twist when he meets a beautiful young single mother with an unhappy past. Depardieu even sings his own songs. A delight. |
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Salmer fra kjøkkenet (Kitchen Stories) |
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11 weeks to go!
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 Norway & Sweden 2003 / directed by Brent Hamber / 95 mins / rated PG
This brilliantly funny award winning movie is set post-war. The Swedish Home Research Institute sent out eighteen observers to a rural district of Norway to map out the kitchen routines of single men. The observers and the observed are under strict rules not to communicate. Folke Nilsson is assigned to study the habits of Isak Bjornsson. The two lonely men slowly overcome the initial Norwegian-Swede distrust and become friends. |
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Mensonges et trahisons et plus si affinités... (The Story of my Life) |
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10 weeks to go!
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 France 2004 / directed by Laurent Tirard / 86 mins /rated M
An award winning comedy. Raphael a talented author, makes his living as a ghost-writer of autobiographies. His latest project is a book on a macho soccer superstar Kevin. He discovers that Kevin is dating Claire, the object of Raphael's desires while at college. Raphael wants to win back Claire but has to do this somehow without upsetting either Kevin or his own current girlfriend. |
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Efter brylluppet (After the Wedding) |
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9 weeks to go!
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 Denmark 2006 / directed by Susanne Bier / 120 mins / reated M
Australian Premiere!
An award winning movie, Jacob Petersen has dedicated his life to helping street children in India. When the orphanage he heads is threatened by closure, he receives an unusual offer. A Danish businessman, Jørgen, offers him a donation of $4 million dollars. There are, however, certain conditions ... Not only must Jacob return to Denmark, he must also take part in the wedding of Jørgen's daughter. The wedding proves to be a critical juncture between past and future and catapults Jacob into the most intense dilemma of his life. |
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8 weeks to go!
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 Italy & France 2006 / directed by Nanni Moretti / 112 mins / rated M
This is a part divorce drama, part political satire and part film-within-a-film. It revolves around Bruno, a disillusioned movie-producer who can’t get financing for his movie. He receives a script from a young director and starts producing the film without reading it and discovers that the story is based on Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi. Now the production of the movie becomes a matter of life and death for Bruno. |
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7 weeks to go!
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 Brazil 2005 / directed by Matt Mochary & Jeff Zimbalist / 80 mins / rated M
Favela Rising was short-listed in the 2006 Academy Awards for best documentary. This movie is set in a favela, an impoverished barrio on the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro. In a shoot-out, by an infamous druglord that killed four policemen, Anderson Sá's brother was killed. Anderson, a former drug trafficker, is focused on counteracting the cycle of violence by the use of music to bring hope to the community. He began Group Cultural AfroReggae, an organization that uses the music and dance to rally against the violence and crime that these youth face every day. However an accident besets Anderson and the true power of his movement is put to the test. Will the movement be able to sustain this tragedy? |
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6, 5, 4 weeks to go!
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We were unfortunately not able to screen lead up films during the school holiday weeks. |
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Agata e la tempesta (Agatha and the Storm) |
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3 weeks to go!
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 Italy, Switzerland & UK 2004 / directed by Silvio Soldini / 125 mins / rated M
A romantic comedy cut from similar cloth to Soldini’s art house hit Bread & Tulips. Agatha, a forty-something proprietor of a book store begins a romance with a much younger man which sends her into a tailspin. Her brother, Gustavo is struggling to come to terms that he was adopted and this sends him into crisis. Added to this, he meets his new half-brother who has dramas of his own. |
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Mon meilleur ami (My Best Friend) |
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2 weeks to go!
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 France 2006 / directed by Patrice Laconte / 94 mins / rated TBA
This is another buddy movie by Patrice Laconte about two very different characters brought together in an off-beat situation. Francois (Daniel Auteuil) is a good-natured dealer in antiques, obsessed about his trade. At a birthday gathering for him, a guest of honour was astounded to find that no one could say anything positive about him. His business partner, Catherine then challenges him to find one genuine friend within 10 days, otherwise he would have to give up a valued antique vase from 5BC. So the chase begins. When all seems lost, Francoise turns up with a buddy who is a taxi-driver. |
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Paris, je t'aime (Paris, I Love You) |
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1 week to go!
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 France 2006 / directed by (many, cf. below) / 120 mins / rated TBA
Paris, je t'aime is a love-letter of sorts to Paris brought together by different directors presenting petite vignettes of stories about love, meaning and loss, set in its neighbourhoods. These five minute presentations are somehow link to each other, beginning with the last frame of the previous film and ends with the first frame of the next. The tone of movie is light with references to famous scenes attributable to the history of French cinema. The list of directors includes the acclaimed Coen brothers, Christopher Payne, Gus Van Sant, Gurinder Chadha, Wes Craven, Olivier Assayas, Frederic AUburtin & Gerard Depardieu. The stellar cast includes Julitette Binoche, Steve Buscemi, Sergio Castellitto, William Dafoe, Marianne Faithfull, Ben Gazarra, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Bob Hoskins, Nick Nolte, Catalina Sandino Morano, Natalie Portman, Miranda Richardson, Ludivine Sagnier, Rufus Sewell, Gaspard Ulliel and Elijah Wood. |
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2007 Lead-Up Programme 
