National Film and Sound Archive Cinémathèque – the films of controversial French Filmmaker: Maurice Pialat
Electric Shadows Cinemas, City Walk, Canberra, admission by subscription ($15 for any three films)
In August, the NFSA Cinémathèque at Electric Shadows Cinemas screens the first major Australian retrospective of the films of controversial French filmmaker Maurice Pialat. Pialat is celebrated as maybe the most important French filmmaker, post- nouvelle vague, with his films now heralded as the major influence on contemporary French film.
The NFSA Cinémathèque’s sessions will include Under the Sun of Satan, Pialat’s disturbing study of religious faith which won the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 1987; Police, hard-hitting police corruption drama starring Gérard Depardieu, and scripted by Catherine Breillat (Romance, Á Ma Soeur!); Le Garçu – Pialat’s dark autobiography on fatherhood, also starring Depardieu; and For All My Loves, starring Sandrine Bonnaire in a tumultuous portrait of adolescent female sexuality, winner of the César for Best French Film.
Presented in association with the New Zealand International Film Festival and the Bureau du Cinema of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Paris).
VAN GOGH (unclassified 18+) screens 5 August, 2.00pm
A MOUTH AGAPE (unclassified 18+) screens 12 August, 1.00pm, followed by UNDER THE SUN OF SATAN (unclassified 18+) at 2.45pm.
FOR ALL MY LOVES (unclassified 18+) screens 19 August, 2.00pm
POLICE (unclassified 18+) screens 26 August, 2.00pm
LE GARÇU (unclassified 18+) screens 2 September, 2.00pm
Full program now online: www.nfsa.afc.gov.au/cinematheque.
The NFSA will be producing a three monthly NFSA Cinémathèque screenings calendar from now on. You can receive the calendar by mail for FREE by contacting 02 6248 2000 or email theflicks(a)nfsa.afc.gov.au.
In August, the NFSA Cinémathèque at Electric Shadows Cinemas screens the first major Australian retrospective of the films of controversial French filmmaker Maurice Pialat. Pialat is celebrated as maybe the most important French filmmaker, post- nouvelle vague, with his films now heralded as the major influence on contemporary French film.
The NFSA Cinémathèque’s sessions will include Under the Sun of Satan, Pialat’s disturbing study of religious faith which won the Palme d’Or at Cannes in 1987; Police, hard-hitting police corruption drama starring Gérard Depardieu, and scripted by Catherine Breillat (Romance, Á Ma Soeur!); Le Garçu – Pialat’s dark autobiography on fatherhood, also starring Depardieu; and For All My Loves, starring Sandrine Bonnaire in a tumultuous portrait of adolescent female sexuality, winner of the César for Best French Film.
Presented in association with the New Zealand International Film Festival and the Bureau du Cinema of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Paris).
VAN GOGH (unclassified 18+) screens 5 August, 2.00pm
A MOUTH AGAPE (unclassified 18+) screens 12 August, 1.00pm, followed by UNDER THE SUN OF SATAN (unclassified 18+) at 2.45pm.
FOR ALL MY LOVES (unclassified 18+) screens 19 August, 2.00pm
POLICE (unclassified 18+) screens 26 August, 2.00pm
LE GARÇU (unclassified 18+) screens 2 September, 2.00pm
Full program now online: www.nfsa.afc.gov.au/cinematheque.
The NFSA will be producing a three monthly NFSA Cinémathèque screenings calendar from now on. You can receive the calendar by mail for FREE by contacting 02 6248 2000 or email theflicks(a)nfsa.afc.gov.au.