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French Film Festival 2010
French Film Festival Wrap-up
The fourth annual French Film Festival was held recently in Auckland. Among the films screened were Costa-Gavras’ Eden à L’ouest, which tracks the Odyssean journey of a rootless young man adrift in the world; Ugly Mélanie, a parody/reversal of the immensely popular Amélie in which, Cinderella-style, an ugly duckling is transformed; Caroline Bottaro’s Joueuse, a … Continue reading
Preview: French Film Festival in Auckland
The fourth annual French Film Festival begins in at the Rialto Cinemas in Newmarket on February 10th with what the festival organisers are labelling a “world ‘avant-première’”—the film being shown, Tony Gatlif’s Korkoro (Liberté) will not open in France until February 24th. Gatlif is perhaps best known outside France for Exils, a road movie starring … Continue reading
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