French Film Festival
DatesSun 21 February 2016
Start time: 3pm & 5:30pm
Price: $15 Adult, $13 Concession
SISTER - 5:30PM
French
97 mins
Rated M
2013 Cannes Palme d’or winner Léa Seydoux (Farewell My Queen, Blue Is The Warmest Colour) delivers on her promise as France’s next breakthrough star with her astonishing performance in SISTER, Ursula Meier’s internationally-heralded and extraordinarily moving new drama about two siblings searching for a place in the world.
12-year-old Simon (Kacey Mottet Klein) lives with his restless older sister Louise (Seydoux) at the base of the Swiss Alps. Every day he takes the cable car to the ski resorts above to pilfer from rich tourists, while Louise drifts through a series of part-time jobs and promiscuity, sometimes disappearing for days on end. In her absence, Simon forges a strong bond with a wealthy tourist (Gillian Anderson), and his fragile relationship with his sister fractures into dangerous new territory…
THE GILDED CAGE - 3PM
French
English Subtitles
Rated M
91 mins
writer/director Ruben Alves’ enormously charming, semi-autobiographical Parisian comedy is the story of a loving, hardworking married couple whose long-held dream of returning to their homeland finally comes true – only to be secretly undermined by their overly dependent friends and neighbours.
