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French Film Festival

French Film Festival

SCREENING Friday July 31st – Friday Aug 7th 

Join us this July for the 18th annual Wagga Wagga French Film Festival, presented by Alliance Française de Wagga Wagga!

French Film Festival
  • La Venue de l'avenir (Colours of Time)

    La Venue de l'avenir (Colours of Time) Mature Audiences

    Runtime: 126 Minutes
    Starring: Suzanne Lindon, Abraham Wapler, Vincent Macaigne, Julia Piaton, Zinedine Soualem
    Language: In French, with English subtitles
    United by the unexpected inheritance of a house in Normandy, four estranged cousins discover their family history by retracing their ancestor's steps.
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  • Vie privée (A Private Life)

    Vie privée (A Private Life) Mature Audiences

    Runtime: 118 Minutes
    Starring: Jodie Foster, Daniel Auteuil, Virginie Efira, Mathieu Amalric, Vincent Lacoste
    Language: In French, with English subtitles
    When renowned psychiatrist Lilian Steiner learns of the sudden death of a patient, she suspects murder. She mounts a private investigation, enlisting an odd assortment of quirky characters.
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  • Coutures

    Coutures Check Classification

    Runtime: 135 Minutes
    Starring: Angelina Jolie, Ella Rumpf, Anyier Anei, Louis Garrel, Garance Marillier
    Language: In French, with English subtitles
    In the frenzy of Fashion Week, three women cross paths in Paris, grappling with the world's tragedies and the questions of their lives: Maxine, an American film director in her forties, discovers she has cancer; Ada, a young South Sudanese model, escapes a predetermined destiny to be thrust into a deceptive universe and French makeup artist Angèle, a small hand working in the shadows of the catwalks, dreams of escaping her life.
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  • Fils de (The Son Of)

    Fils de (The Son Of) Check Classification

    Runtime: 120 Minutes
    Starring: Jean Chevalier, François Cluzet, Karin Viard, Alex Lutz, Émilie Gavois-Kahn
    Language: In French, with English subtitles
    The week after the French elections, the President must appoint his prime minister. In exchange for a higher position, ambitious young parliamentary attaché Nino is charged with persuading his longestranged father, a reclusive senator, to accept the post. But Lionel Perrin isn’t the only candidate for the coveted position, and in the race for power absolutely nothing is off-limits… Nino embarks on a high stakes adventure risking everything, his love life and political ambitions alike.
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  • Jean Valjean

    Jean Valjean Check Classification

    Runtime: 114 Minutes
    Starring: Grégory Gadebois, Bernard Campan, Isabelle Carré, Alexandra Lamy, Loup Cousteil
    Language: In French, with English subtitles
    Jean Valjean is released from prison after nineteen years of hard labor, violence, and suffering. Filled with anger and a deep sense of injustice, he has become a dangerous man who trusts no one and nothing. When he arrives in a small village in Provence, he is repeatedly turned away. Desperate, he unknowingly finds refuge at the house of Bishop Bienvenu, who lives simply, with his sister and a single servant. There, he is surprised by their warm welcome, and his inner demons start to waver. But the temptation to be what society sees in him still haunts him, and he steals the Bishop’s silverware. When the police ultimately catches him, the Bishop forgives him and gifts him the candlesticks. This acts becomes the starting point of Jean Valjean’ transformation into a new man who reclaims his humanity.
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  • Maigret et le mort amoureux (Maigret and the Dead Lover)

    Maigret et le mort amoureux (Maigret and the Dead Lover) Parental Guidance

    Runtime: 95 Minutes
    Starring: Denis Podalydès, Olivier Rabourdin, Micha Lescot, Laurent Poitrenaux, Irène Jacob
    Language: In French, with English subtitles
    Commissioner Maigret rushes to the Quai d’Orsay with Lieutenant Janvier. There, they find Mademoiselle Larrieu in a state of shock. That very morning, she discovered the bullet-riddled body of Mr. Berthier-Lagès, a renowned former ambassador whom she had served as a housekeeper for 46 years. While searching the victim's apartment, Maigret and Janvier uncover hundreds of letters. The diplomat had maintained a fifty-year-long love correspondence with a certain Princess of Vuynes, whose husband - by a strange coincidence - had died just a few days earlier. As he confronts the various members of the two families and the suspicious silence of Mademoiselle Larrieu, Maigret finds himself faced with surprise after surprise, watching his certainties crumble - until the solution to the mystery finally hits him in the face at the very last moment...
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  • Partir un jour (Leave One Day)

    Partir un jour (Leave One Day) Mature Audiences

    Runtime: 112 Minutes
    Starring: Juliette Armanet, Bastien Bouillon, François Rollin, Tewfik Jallab, Dominique Blanc
    Language: In French, with English subtitles
    Cécile is about to open her own gourmet restaurant, finally making her dream come true, when suddenly her father has a heart attack and she is called back to the village where she was born. Far from the hubbub of Paris life, she runs into her teenage crush. The memories come flooding back, destabilizing her certainties.
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  • C’est quoi l’amour? (What Is Love)

    C’est quoi l’amour? (What Is Love) Check Classification

    Runtime: 106 Minutes
    Starring: Laure Calamy, Vincent Macaigne, Lyes Salem, Mélanie Thierry, Céleste Brunnquell
    Language: In French, with English subtitles
    Marguerite has no reason to refuse the church’s annulment of her marriage to Fred. She also has a new partner with whom she has a child. However, to convince the church that their previous marriage was doomed from the start, Marguerite and Fred must examine their shared past.
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  • Les Musiciens (The Musicians)

    Les Musiciens (The Musicians) Parental Guidance

    Runtime: 117 Minutes
    Starring: Valérie Donzelli, Frédéric Pierrot, Mathieu Spinosi, Emma Ravier, Daniel Garlitsky
    Language: In French, with English subtitles
    Astrid Thompson finally succeeds in fulfilling her father's dream: to bring together four Stradivarius for a unique concert, eagerly expected by music lovers around the world. But Lise, George, Peter and Apolline, the four virtuosos recruited for the occasion, are incapable of playing together. The rehearsals are one ego crisis after another. With no solution in sight, Astrid decides to go and find the only person who, in her eyes, can still save the event: Charlie Beaumont, the composer of the score.
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