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[title]Pop a bottle of Champagne and channel your inner Brigitte Bardot at the 35th anniversary of the Alliance Française French Film Festival. From March 6 until April 2, you can watch the best of French cinema at participating Palace Cinemas.
As the Oscars buzz begins to settle after March 11, film fanatics and casual moviegoers alike will have a cinema-shaped hole in their hearts that desperately needs filling. Luckily, the festival program will be showing a whopping 41 films (a third of which are directed by women) and is the biggest French film festival outside of, well, France.
The Opening Night Gala will be a showing of the action-packed film The Three Musketeers: D’Artagnan, playing at the Astor in St Kilda. The film was France’s biggest production and box-office success last year, with a star-studded cast, plus plenty of humour and heart-fluttering romance. Opening night will be a big one, with Champagne aplenty, delicious French food and an after-party with a DJ slinging French bangers. All of this and more is included in the ticket price. Sign us up!
Other films playing during the festival include The President’s Wife starring the legendary Catherine Deneuve, feel-good comedy Iris and the Men and the 1943 French cinema classic Children of Paradise. There will also be special screenings including, the heart-warming 2010 favourite The Intouchables (which fans of the festival voted as the film they thought best encapsulates French cinema).
Tickets are available from the website now, and prices may vary.