Running 4 March to 27 April 2025: The Alliance Française French Film Festival in Australia (2024) saw over 188,000 attendees, making it the largest French film festival outside France.
Seeing French films on the big screen is such a treat! While SBS is a truly wonderful treasure trove, these films are best viewed not only in cinemas, but even better during a film festival with like-minded people. We laugh together, we gasp together - it’s great listening to what people have to say when the film’s over.
Charlotte Gainsbourg is always a good reason to see a film. In Meet the Leroys, she plays Sandrine, a wife with two almost adult children who has become unhappy in her marriage and wants to divorce her husband Christophe (José Garcia). He is surprised, shocked, and upset, but he comes up with a plan to win her back.
The program as always is diverse, with everything from the swashbuckling Count of Monte Cristo/Le Comte de Mont Cristo starring the fabulous Pierre Niney, to biopics Monsieur Aznavour, Saint-Ex/Saint-Exupéry, and The Divine Sarah Bernhardt/Sarah Bernhardt, La Divine starring the divine Sandrine Kiberlain.
If you love food and are interested in a behind-the-scenes look from paddock to fine dining restaurant plate, then this is the film for you.
Boris Lojkine: Cynthia Karena's Interview Boris Lojkine director of the film The Story of Soulymane MIIf 2024
The Story of Souleymane : The film looks at the struggles and obstacles that Souleymane and his fellow undocumented workers face in Paris while they wait to learn if they will be granted legal status.
Mr. Blake At Your Service - It’s a charming film. Malkovich is mesmerising, and both he and Ardant are of course a joy to watch.
Iris and the Men: This film looks to be a winner and many people including myself will see it purely because it stars the charming Laure Calamy (‘Antoinette in the Cévennes’, ‘Call My Agent’).
A film worth watching for a window into French life in the late 1800s – with the rise of feminism, plenty of duelling action, albeit with some old men stuffily pontificating about the world, and there’s a dash of romance as well.
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