Film Review: An Impossible Love (2018)
byYour parents’ relationship plays a big part in shaping who you are. Basic assumptions on many things are forged in the fires of childhood,…
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Film Review: The Sisters Brothers (2018)
byThe Sisters Brothers doesn’t look like the kind of film you’d expect to find at a French film festival. Indeed, this Western shoot-out, set…
Film Review: See You Up There (2017)
byTranslating Pierre Lemaitre’s epic, Prix Goncourt winning novel, Au revoir là–haut (See You Up There), to the screen is no easy feat. Though the…
CLOSED: 2015 Alliance Francaise French Film Festival Giveaway
byCourtesy of the Alliance Francaise French Film Festival, Film Blerg is giving away 10 double passes to attend this year’s festival, playing across Australia from 3 March. For more…
CLOSED: Alliance Francaise French Film Festival 2014 Giveaway
byCourtesy of the Alliance Francaise French Film Festival, Film Blerg is giving away 10 double passes see a screening of your choice. AFFFF2014 screens around…
AFFFF: Another Woman’s Life (2012)
byThe directorial debut of French actress and writer Sylvie Testud, Another Woman’s Life stars actress Juliette Bionche as a woman who awakes one morning to find that 15 years of her life have mysteriously disappeared. While undoubtedly an intriguing premise, it’s not long before the conventional romantic comedy lurking within this material rears its head to suffocate the potential hinted at in the film’s opening act.
AFFFF Review: In The House (2012)
byThe French auteur Francois Ozon has crafted a deftly intelligent character drama interwoven with a psychological thriller that works extremely well in the first two thirds before collapsing under the weight of expectation in its finale.
AFFFF: Looking For Hortense (2012)
byDamien Hauer (an unkempt Jean-Pierre Bacri) is a down-trodden Parisian professor whose relationship with long-time companion and playwright Iva (Kristin Scott-Thomas) is falling apart….
AFFFF Review: The Man Who Laughs (2012)
byThose who are familiar with Les Miserables will know that Victor Hugo was not the most cheerful of chaps. The Man Who Laughs, one of his less well known works, might sound merry but where pre-revolutionary France is concerned, there is not a great deal to laugh about.
AFFFF Review: On Air (2012)
byShowing as part of the section of “Women’s Stories” this year in the French Film Festival is On Air, a character driven drama that follows an emotionally damaged women’s search for closure with the mother who gave her up to an orphanage as a child.