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IFI French Film Festival 2012

  • 25-10-2012 11:49am
    #1
    johnny_ultimate
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    http://www.ifi.ie/FrenchFest

    Think the big draw this year are two high-profiled guest stars - Beatrice Dalle (Betty Blue, Inside) and Juliette Binoche (every other French film made in the last twenty years). The lineup includes the likes of Alain Resnais' You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet! and screenings of old favourites Hidden and Betty Blue. Michael Haneke's Amour is finally receiving its Irish premiere on November 14th, but it's going on general release two days later so it's not exactly a must-attend event ;)

    Tickets on sale tomorrow.


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  • #2
    [Deleted User]
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    johnny_ultimate wrote: »
    Michael Haneke's Amour is finally receiving its Irish premiere on August 14th.

    I'm assuming that it's November 14th unless of course the IFI have somehow stumbled upon a way to send entire screens back in time.


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    gugleguy
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    maybe its like the American in Paris, where Owen Wilson goes around the different time periods.


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    kitakyushu
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    gugleguy wrote: »
    maybe its like the American in Paris, where Owen Wilson goes around the different time periods.

    Midnight in Paris.

    Darn, this thread is error prone! (I'm expecting someone to find an error with this post now).


  • #5
    Faith+1
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    Shame they're not showing The Big Blue or Nikita :(


  • #6
    Squelchy
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    Got me a ticket to the screening with the Juliette Binoche Q&A... I have a restraining order to earn.


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  • #7
    garbanzo
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    Got me a ticket too to the Betty Blue screening this coming saturday afternoon with Beatrice Dalle giving an introduction. She hasn't really aged well by all accounts courtesy of a lot of hard living so unlike Squelchy a barring order won't be required.

    Going to be interesting seeing her from 25 odd years ago and again in person.


  • #8
    A Disgrace
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    garbanzo wrote: »
    Got me a ticket too to the Betty Blue screening this coming saturday afternoon with Beatrice Dalle giving an introduction. She hasn't really aged well by all accounts courtesy of a lot of hard living so unlike Squelchy a barring order won't be required.

    Going to be interesting seeing her from 25 odd years ago and again in person.

    Sorry to report that she has pulled out.

    Confirmation towards bottom of page http://www.ifi.ie/FrenchFest


  • #9
    garbanzo
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    C'est la vie...!


  • #10
    johnny_ultimate
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    Saw You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet! tonight, which is one of the weirdest, most challenging films imaginable. Basically an avant-garde adaptation of an obtuse, somewhat turgid play called Eurydice (which does get more engaging around act three of four, but then just sort of ends). The film is constantly flirting with different perspectives - real-life actors such as Mathieu Almaric play themselves watching an adaptation of the play but then actually acting out the play themselves. Sometimes multiple actors play the same characters, with Resnais frequently inter-cutting between them.

    It's full of intertextual and extratextual references (from the casting of Resnais regulars to the nearly hidden background posters of previous Resnais films), and all in all is draped in layers of self-awareness and irony that are challenging to work through. There's some really interesting themes in there - Resnais reflecting on his life, his legacy, his career, his collaborators, the nature of art and death. It requires a lot of work to get to them, although its occasionally rewarding. There's some very weird CGI and an awful, awful soundtrack. The performances are inevitably a mixed bag. On the plus side, its inspirational to see a ninety year old director experimenting like this, and there is a sense of wit and ironic playfulness to it all. It's very frequently a struggle though.


  • #11
    garbanzo
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    Full house for Betty Blue. It was the original print of the movie so the quality was a bit patchy in parts. A very, dark moving film detailing her decline. I'd recommend though three hours is probably at the limit of what I could watch.

    Bravo !


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  • #12
    ButtersSuki
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    garbanzo wrote: »
    Full house for Betty Blue. It was the original print of the movie so the quality was a bit patchy in parts. A very, dark moving film detailing her decline. I'd recommend though three hours is probably at the limit of what I could watch.

    Bravo !


    How did I manage to miss this? Gutted. Gutted. Gutted. :mad:


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