French Film Festival
SCREENING Fri July 26 – Thu Aug 1st
Join us this July for the 16th annual Wagga Wagga French Film Festival, presented by Alliance Française de Wagga Wagga.
Opening on Friday 26th July, with A DIFFICULT YEAR, a wildly entertaining new comedy from Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache ('The Intouchables').
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Runtime: 135 MinutesStarring: Pio Marmaï, Jonathan Cohen, Noémie Merlant, Mathieu Amalric, Grégoire Leprince-RinguetLanguage: In French, with English subtitlesCompulsive spenders Albert and Bruno are in debt up to their necks. While seeking help from community workers to get their lives back on track, they run into a group of young green activists. Lured by the free beer and snacks rather than by the ideals of eco-activists, Albert and Bruno find themselves joining the movement without much conviction. -
Runtime: 116 MinutesStarring: Emmanuelle Devos, Daniel Auteuil, Larisa Faber, Matthieu Galoux, Jeanne CherhalLanguage: In French, with English subtitlesAstrid is the wife of an acclaimed lawyer. Silenced for 25 years, her family balance suddenly collapses when her children initiate their search for justice.Click time to order tickets -
Runtime: 153 MinutesStarring: Benjamin Lavernhe, Emmanuelle Bercot, Michel Vuillermoz, Antoine Laurent, Alain SachsLanguage: In French, with English subtitlesThe life of Henri Grouès, known as Abbé Pierre, from his time in the Resistance in WWII to his fights against poverty and for the homeless.Click time to order tickets -
Runtime: 132 MinutesStarring: Maïwenn, Johnny Depp, Benjamin Lavernhe, Melvil Poupaud, Robin RenucciLanguage: In French, with English subtitlesThe life of Jeanne Bécu, who was born as the illegitimate daughter of an impoverished seamstress in 1743 and went on to rise through the Court of Louis XV to become his last official mistress.Click time to order tickets -
Runtime: 99 MinutesStarring: Ilça Moreno, Louise Mauroy-Panzani, Fredy Gomes Tavares, Abnara Gomes Varela, Arnaud RebotiniLanguage: In French, with English subtitlesCleo is six years old, has a myopic look and has been madly in love with Gloria, her nanny, since she was born. When Gloria receives a call and must urgently return to her home in Cape Verde to care for her two children, whom she has not raised, Cleo makes her promise to meet one last time. Gloria accepts and invites Cleo to spend the summer vacations on her island. A last summer that they will spend together, in Gloria’s family, before inevitably saying goodbye. -
Runtime: 136 MinutesStarring: François Civil, Vincent Cassel, Romain Duris, Pio Marmaï, Eva GreenLanguage: In French, with English subtitlesD'Artagnan, a spirited young Gascon, is left for dead after trying to save a noblewoman from being kidnapped. Once in Paris, he tries by all means to find his attackers, unaware that his quest will lead him to the very heart of a war where the future of France is at stake. Aided by King's Musketeers Athos, Porthos and Aramis, he faces the machinations of villainous Cardinal Richelieu and Milady de Winter, while falling in love with Constance, the Queen's confidante. -
Runtime: 136 MinutesStarring: François Civil, Vincent Cassel, Romain Duris, Pio Marmaï, Eva GreenLanguage: In French, with English subtitlesD'Artagnan, on a quest to rescue the abducted Constance, runs into the mysterious Milady de Winter again. The tension between the Catholics and the Protestants finally escalates, as the king declares war — forcing the now four musketeers into battle. But as the war goes on, they are tested physically, mentally and emotionally. -
Runtime: 133 MinutesStarring: Birane Ba, Leïla Bekhti, Anne Benoît, Dali Benssalah, Élodie BouchezLanguage: In French, with English subtitlesSince 2014, France's restorative justice programmes have offered a safe space for supervised dialogue between offenders and victims. Grégoire, Nawelle, and Sabine, victims of heists and violent robberies, agree to join one of these discussion groups alongside offenders Nassim, Issa, and Thomas, all convicted of violent robberies. Meanwhile Chloé, a victim of childhood sexual abuse, prepares for dialogue with her own agressor after learning he has moved back into town. -
Runtime: 150 MinutesStarring: Benoît Magimel, Juliette Binoche, Patrick d'Assumçao, Emmanuel Salinger, Jan HammeneckerLanguage: In French, with English subtitlesSet in 1889 France, Dodin Bouffant is a chef living with his personal cook and lover Eugénie. They share a long history of gastronomy and love but Eugénie refuses to marry Dodin, so the food lover decides to do something he has never done before: cook for her.
