Festival de Cannes 2011

Festival de Cannes 2011: 11-22 May 2011

Oh Cannes how I miss you and how I wish I were with you again..

• BIR ZAMANLAR ANADOLU'DA (ONCE UPON A TIME IN ANATOLIA) directed by Nuri Bilge CEYLAN
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• DRIVE directed by Nicolas WINDING REFN 
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• HABEMUS PAPAM (We have a pope) directed by Nanni MORETTI
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• HANEZU NO TSUKI (HANEZU) directed by Naomi KAWASE
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• HEARAT SHULAYIM (Footnote) directed by Joseph CEDAR
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• ICHIMEI (HARA-KIRI: DEATH OF A SAMURAI) directed by Takashi MIIKE
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• L'APOLLONIDE - SOUVENIRS DE LA MAISON CLOSE (HOUSE OF TOLERANCE) directed by Bertrand BONELLO
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• LA PIEL QUE HABITO (THE SKIN I LIVE IN) directed by Pedro ALMODÓVAR
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• LA SOURCE DES FEMMES (THE SOURCE) directed by Radu MIHAILEANU
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• LE GAMIN AU VÉLO (THE KID WITH A BIKE) directed by Jean-Pierre et Luc DARDENNE
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• LE HAVRE directed by Aki KAURISMÄKI
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• MELANCHOLIA directed by Lars VON TRIER
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• MICHAEL directed by Markus SCHLEINZER
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• PATER directed by Alain CAVALIER
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• POLISSE (POLISS) directed by MAÏWENN
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• SLEEPING BEAUTY directed by Julia LEIGH
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• THE ARTIST directed by Michel HAZANAVICIUS
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• THE TREE OF LIFE directed by Terrence MALICK
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• THIS MUST BE THE PLACE directed by Paolo SORRENTINO
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• WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT KEVIN directed by Lynne RAMSAY
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Alliance Francaise French Film Festival Australia 2011 Part II

Alliance Française French Film Festival Australia 2011

Part I

Les films continued :


Le bruit des glaçons (The Clink of Ice)

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Les mains en l’air (Hands Up)

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Aimez qui vous voulez (Happy Few)

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L'Italien (The Italian)

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Le nom des gens (The Name of Love)

My review here
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Tournée (On Tour)

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Les femmes du sixième étage (The women on the 6th floor)

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L’Amour, c’est mieux à deux (A perfect date)

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L'âge de raison (The age of reason)

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De vrais mensonges (Beautiful Lies/Full Treatment)

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Bus Palladium

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La tête en friche (My afternoons with Magueritte)

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Les petits mouchoirs (Little White Lies)

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Les Petits ruisseaux (Wandering Streams)

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Pièce montée (The Wedding Cake)

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Une vie de chat (A Cat in Paris) (animation)

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Loup (Wolf)

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Les arrivants (The Arrivals)

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L’Empire du milieu du sud (The empire of the mid-south)

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Ce n’est qu’un début (Just a beginning)

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L'amour fou (Yves Saint Laurent - Pierre Bergé)

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Deux de la Vague (Two in the Wave)



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La Meute (The Pack)

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Enjoy! Amusez-vous bien !

Alliance Francaise French Film Festival Australia 2011

Alliance Française French Film Festival Australia 2011


It's with much fondness that I write this post because I had an awesome awesome time at last year's festival. I met so many people (including Jean-Pierre Jeunet!) and saw so many great French films. It also started a whole chain of events for me with involving myself international film festivals in Sydney...
I wish so much I was back in Sydney right now so I could experience those happy moments all over again!

This is the biggest French film festival outside of France. Not bad for a country with a relatively small population...


C'est avec une tendresse que je vous écris ce post, car j'ai passé de très bons moments au festival de film français l'année dernière. J'ai rencontré tellement de gens (y compris Jean-Pierre Jeunet!) et j'ai vu tellement de supers films français. Ce festival a également lancé une chaîne d'événements pour moi avec des festivals internationaux du film à Sydney ...

Je souhaite tant que je suis à Sydney en ce moment pour que je puisse vivre ces moments de bonheur une fois de plus!

Ca c'est le plus grand festival de film français hors de la France. Pas mal pour un pays avec peu d'habitants ...



Previous related posts:
List of films (with links to imdb)
French Film Festival 2010 Opening Night

Official website: French Film Festival Australia 2011


et voilà ! Les films :


Potiche

Imdb: Potiche
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Une exécution ordinaire (An Ordinary Execution)

Imdb: Une exécution ordinaire (An Ordinary Execution)
Une exécution ordinaire


Carlos

imdb: Carlos
Premiere.fr: Carlos, le film


Nannerl, la soeur de Mozart (Nannerl, Mozart’s Sister)

imdb: Nannerl, La Soeur de Mozart
Premiere.fr: Nanner, la soeur de Mozart


Des Hommes et des Dieux (Of Gods and Men)

imdb: Of Gods and Men
Premiere.fr: Des Hommes et des Dieux


Hors La Loi (Outside the law)

imdb: Outside the Law
Premiere.fr: Hors La Loi


La Princesse de Montpensier (The Princess of Montpensier)

imdb: The Princess of Montpensier
Premiere.fr: La Princesse de Montpensier


La Rafle (The Round-Up)

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Tout ce qui brille (All that glitters)





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Angèle et Tony

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Un balcon sur la mer (A view of love, lit.: a balcony by the sea)

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Donnant, Donnant (Fair is fair)

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Un Poison violent (Like Poison)

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Les invités de mon père (My Father’s Guests)

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Sans queue ni tête (Special Treatment, lit: with neither tail or head)

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Comme les cinq doigts de la main (Five Brothers)

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Sans laisser de traces (Traceless)

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Joseph et la fille (Joseph and the girl)

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Crime d’amour (Love Crime)

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Gardiens de l’ordre (Sphinx)

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Tête de turc (Turk's head)

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Blanc comme neige (White as snow)

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Part II

Christmas / Noël

Christmas is a time of giving, no? I sent off a big batch of letters/Christmas cards, photos and small gifts to some of my family and friends back home in Australia as well as around France and I felt so excited and happy. To be honest I don't even care if I don't receive anything in return (because I have nowhere to put it hahaha. I'm kidding.). Seriously, I can imagine the look of surprise on their faces and that's enough for me.

I can't afford a great deal (and heck, the postage usually costs more than the gift!) but it's the thought that counts right? And even if it was a pain queuing up in the LONG queue at the post office (twice!) it was totally worth it to me :D


Noël, c'est le temps de donner, non ? Je viens d'envoyer beaucoup de letters/cartes de Noël, des photos et des petits cadeaux à ma famille et aux mes amis en Australie et autour de la France et je me sentais très heureuse. Franchement, je m'en fiche si je ne recevrai rien (parce que je n'ai pas assez d'espace pour les placer.. je plaisante ;) ) Sérieusement, je peux imaginer le regard de surprise sur leurs visages et ca, ça suffit pour moi.

Je n'ai pas les moyens d'acheter pas cher.. (et le livraison coûte plus cher que le cadeau!) mais c'est l'intention qui compte, n'est-ce pas ? Même si c'était ennuyeux de faire une longue queue dans la poste (deux fois!) ça vaut la peine.


This will be one of the rare Christmases that I don't spend in Australia with my family and friends :( so it will be a little bit sad but I will be with new friends so I'm looking forward to it... and some lovely home-cooked French food! :) 

All that snow and all those Christmas decorations has put me in somewhat of a Pollyanna mood and I like it! It's so unlike me! I just feel happy and giddy all the time. It's kind of crazy. The locals don't even like their town and I love it! Everything is beautiful to me... Every little thing intrigues and surprises me and everything is just beautiful because... it's Christmas and I get to experience a REAL Christmas, in winter, with real Christmas trees, and real snow and soon... skiing!

Merry Christmas / Joyeux Noël to all my readers. Stay safe and happy and I hope that you will have some special and memorable moments with your loved ones.

xxx

Lyon Fête des Lumières 2010

Right now I'm in Lyon enjoying the Fête des Lumières (Lights Festival). Don't ask me how I managed to wrangle 2 nights for free in an apartment in the heart of the city right during one of its busiest period for accommodation... it's my lucky day/week/month! However, it seems I won't be getting any sleep tonight... It's almost midnight and there is a big band playing downstairs on the street... Everybody is in such a festive mood!

Boy on boy was it cold. It was a pretty much cloudless day and those days are always colder than cloudy days. I am surprised I managed to stay out for over 4 hours in -2°C temperature ! Incredible. At times I didn't think I could last but everyone else did, even the little kids and old people so I pushed on although I did give up queuing up for the Jungle one. I might see it tomorrow... It looked good but I really did not want to stand for ages in a queue! (I hate queues).

I'd been looking forward to this even for a year (well since the last one) so I had very high expectations and I was a little disappointed. I'm not sure why exactly. Maybe the massive crowds has something to do with it. I enjoyed the lights festival in May/June in Sydney and it was hardly crowded at all! As well as that it went on for much longer than just 4 days. I guess the crowds and the mega cold was a dampener for me but there were some nice things to see.  My fave (of those that I saw) was the one in Place des Terreaux. The combination of the lights, the sound/music and the water was just amazing!

All the restaurants were open and many had little stands selling fast and cheap snack type food, and vin chaud ((hot) mulled wine). I didn't try any though because I wanted to bring the bare essentials so I didn't even bring my wallet or a handbag! I didn't want to get pickpocketed amongst the crowds. Although I shouldn't have worried because it felt really really safe. There were stacks of police everywhere and everyone was well behaved. I kept thinking to myself if this was in Australia and it was late at night and a Friday night at that and almost Christmas there would surely be many loud, annoying drunk people about but I didn't see any of these... just annoying smokers everywhere :P

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17 December: added photo