NZ International Film Festival – July 2010 – French films
Many of you will know that the International Film Festival is on right now. Euroasia is a long-standing supporter of international films in NZ, and every year we encourage all the students at Euroasia Language Academy to go watch these films. Here’s a list of some of the French films you should check out. As always, there’s an amazing selection of top films on offer.
p/s: Join us for French classes starting 19 July if you wish to enjoy French films without solely relying on the subtitles.
Normal ticket price is $15/session. Tip for film festival fans: if you’re planning on attending several films at the Festival this year (or planning to go with a group of people), check out the Ten-Trip Passes. At $105.00, it works out at great value. The Ten-Trip Pass can be purchased on the day or in advance and can be used throughout the Festival to secure tickets to any session that is not sold out. You can also share this pass with a friend or two.
Check out “The Tree” – 16/7 at Lido and 23/7 at Civic. Selected to close this year’s Cannes Film Festival, French director Julie Bertuccelli’s second feature is an arresting drama of loss and rebirth shaped by emotion, intuition and the elemental forces at work in its ravishing Queensland landscape.
French films showing in Auckland at the Film Festival:
A PROPHET
Jacques Audiard, France 2009, 155 mins
Jacques Audiard’s dense, involving, richly layered crimeworld drama is one of the year’s standout films. Set largely in a prison, bu…
15 Jul | 8:45pm
Civic Theatre
16 Jul | 3:45pm
Civic Theatre
AMER
Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani, France 2009, 90 mins
Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani are a Belgian couple who have made five short films together. Amer is their dazzling debut fea…
24 Jul | 8:30pm
Rialto Newmarket
25 Jul | 6:00pm
Rialto Newmarket
AROUND A SMALL MOUNTAIN
Jacques Rivette, France 2009, 84 mins
New Wave veteran Jacques Rivette sets a tentative late-life romance between a performer and an intrigued admirer in a tiny ramshackle circus…
10 Jul | 6:30pm
Rialto Newmarket
12 Jul | 6:30pm
Rialto Newmarket
9 Jul | 1:45pm
Rialto Newmarket
BABIES
Thomas Balmès, France 2010, 79 mins
With wit, tenderness and a keen eye for the fledgling signs of intelligence and sociability, director Thomas Balmès documents the fir…
10 Jul | 1:45pm
Civic Theatre
11 Jul | 4:00pm
Lido Cinema
Sold Out!
13 Jul | 11:00am
Civic Theatre
9 Jul | 3:30pm
The Bridgeway Cinema
CARLOS – PART ONE
Olivier Assayas, France 2010, 100 mins
This extraordinary three-film epic, made for French television, was showcased out of competition in Cannes to a storm of…
22 Jul | 4:00pm
Rialto Newmarket
23 Jul | 4:15pm
Rialto Newmarket
24 Jul | 4:15pm
Rialto Newmarket
25 Jul | 1:00pm
Rialto Newmarket
CARLOS – PART THREE
Olivier Assayas, France 2010, 123 mins
This extraordinary three-film epic, made for French television, was showcased out of competition in Cannes to a storm of…
22 Jul | 8:45pm
Rialto Newmarket
23 Jul | 9:00pm
Rialto Newmarket
24 Jul | 9:00pm
Rialto Newmarket
25 Jul | 5:45pm
Rialto Newmarket
CARLOS – PART TWO
Olivier Assayas, France 2010, 107 mins
This extraordinary three-film epic, made for French television, was showcased out of competition in Cannes to a storm of…
22 Jul | 6:15pm
Rialto Newmarket
23 Jul | 6:30pm
Rialto Newmarket
24 Jul | 6:30pm
Rialto Newmarket
25 Jul | 3:15pm
Rialto Newmarket
CERTIFIED COPY
Abbas Kiarostami, France 2010, 106 mins
At Cannes this was the year of Juliette Binoche. She graced the Festival’s poster; then she took the Best Actress Award for her role i…
18 Jul | 6:15pm
Civic Theatre
20 Jul | 11:00am
Civic Theatre
ENTER THE VOID
Gaspar Noé, France 2009, 156 mins
25 Jul | 8:15pm
Civic Theatre
FAREWELL
, France 2009, 113 mins
Christian Carion’s tensely atmospheric Cold War spy movie reveals an amazing true story. In the early 80s a disillusioned KGB colonel …
15 Jul | 6:00pm
Lido Cinema
20 Jul | 6:15pm
Civic Theatre
21 Jul | 11:00am
Civic Theatre
FATHER OF MY CHILDREN
Mia Hansen-Løve, France 2009, 110 mins
It’s a rare reviewer anywhere who has not been caught up by this persuasively acted portrait of a charismatic, workaholic, art-house m…
11 Jul | 1:00pm
Rialto Newmarket
15 Jul | 9:00pm
Rialto Newmarket
23 Jul | 3:30pm
The Bridgeway Cinema
24 Jul | 3:30pm
The Bridgeway Cinema
GAINSBOURG
Joann Sfar, France 2009, 130 mins
A quintessential French icon gets his big- screen bio. In the 60s, singer Serge Gainsbourg mixed pop outlawry with low-down lechery to blaze…
17 Jul | 5:45pm
Civic Theatre
20 Jul | 3:30pm
Civic Theatre
I’M GLAD MY MOTHER IS ALIVE
Claude Miller, Nathan Miller, France 2009, 90 mins
This compelling drama of a boy’s obsessive pursuit of his birth mother is based on a true story. Like many adolescents, rebellious Tho…
15 Jul | 3:45pm
Academy Cinema
19 Jul | 3:45pm
Academy Cinema
19 Jul | 8:30pm
Academy Cinema
LA DANSE: THE PARIS OPERA BALLET
Frederick Wiseman, France 2009, 158 mins
“In La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet, his 36th documentary in more than 40 years, Frederick Wiseman takes his camera into the stately …
16 Jul | 12:30pm
Civic Theatre
18 Jul | 12:30pm
Civic Theatre
MAMMUTH
Benoît Delépine, Gustave Kervern, France 2010, 89 mins
Inspired absurdists and cheerleaders of underclass rancour, Delépine and Kervern follow last year’s savoury Louise-Michel with …
17 Jul | 6:00pm
Lido Cinema
21 Jul | 1:30pm
Civic Theatre
23 Jul | 6:00pm
Lido Cinema
25 Jul | 4:00pm
Civic Theatre
OCEANS
Jacques Perrin, Jacques Cluzaud, France 2009, 84 mins
A miraculously photographed showcase of some of the seven seas’ least seen and most incredible specimens, Oceans is an immersive cinem…
17 Jul | 11:00am
Civic Theatre
18 Jul | 4:00pm
Civic Theatre
THE CONCERT
Radu Mihaileanu, France 2009, 119 mins
A band of out-of-work Moscow musicians travels to Paris posing as the celebrated Bolshoi Orchestra in this lavish, shamelessly popular comed…
11 Jul | 3:30pm
The Bridgeway Cinema
Sold Out!
13 Jul | 1:15pm
Civic Theatre
9 Jul | 6:15pm
Civic Theatre
THE TREE
Julie Bertuccelli, France 2010, 100 mins
Selected to close this year’s Cannes Film Festival, French director Julie Bertuccelli’s second feature is an arresting drama of loss and rebirth shaped by emotion, intuition and the elemental forces at work in its ravishing Queensland landscape. Like her first, the lovely Since Otar Left (NZIFF03), The Tree is attuned to the delicate, strangely inspired unwordliness of characters discombobulated by loss.
On their small country block, eight-year-old Simone and her mother Dawn (Charlotte Gainsbourg) are dealing in very different ways with the sudden loss of their father and husband. While Dawn struggles spasmodically to keep it together, and her other children fare for themselves, Simone becomes convinced of her father’s presence in the magnificent primeval Moreton Bay fig tree that towers over the family’s rambling bungalow. In Simone’s eyes, Martin Csokas as Dawn’s amorous boss has aroused the tree’s anger. Why else would its roots be rupturing the drains and pushing into the house’s foundations?
16 Jul | 6:00pm
Lido Cinema
22 Jul | 11:15am
Civic Theatre
23 Jul | 6:45pm
Civic Theatre
TWO IN THE WAVE
Emmanuel Laurent, France 2009, 93 mins
Cannes, 1959. The 400 Blows carries off the Best Director award. Its young director and even younger star, François Truffaut and Jean…
15 Jul | 4:00pm
SKYCITY Theatre
17 Jul | 11:45am
SKYCITY Theatre
21 Jul | 11:00am
Academy Cinema
WHITE MATERIAL
Claire Denis, France 2009, 102 mins
Over the past 22 years, Claire Denis (Beau Travail, 35 Shots of Rum) has built up one of the most impressive bodies of work in contemporary
18 Jul | 8:15pm
The Bridgeway Cinema
20 Jul | 8:30pm
Rialto Newmarket
24 Jul | 6:15pm
Rialto Newmarket
25 Jul | 3:45pm
Lido Cinema
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