2 australians to the Film Festival of Cannes

And now begin on May 16th the prestigious Film Festival of Cannes, which as its name suggests, takes place in Cannes on the Cote d'Azur in southern France. This film festival presents a selection of films of the year (rather "cinema d'auteur") and invites producers, directors and comedians to submit their films to win the "palm" of the year.

The strongest picture of the festival is certainly the famous "red carpet" (of the Festival Palace), where artists are welcomed to star in an atmosphere so glamorous and so frenchie, "haute couture" dress for ladies (Chanel, dior, Gaulthier, ...), men in tuxedo, lot of photographers, champagne...

And for this 65th edition of the Film Festival of cannes, this year will have the pleasure of welcoming distinguished guests among these two major international and Australian artists:

Kilye Minogue and Nicole Kidman for two new films:
    > The Paperboy, the U.S. Lee Daniels (with Matthew McConaughey and Zac Effron)
    > Hemingway & Gellhorn (out of competition), the American Philip Kaufman, in which she plays Martha Gellhorn, the third wife of famous writer.

Appointment on May 27, to hear: "... and the winner is ...."

More information : www.festival-cannes.com/fr

French film festival : Here we go !

That's it, the French film festival has begun since 1 week now at Adelaïde.

This French festival is organised by the Alliance Française (french and public organisation to promote the french language and french way of life). The festival takes place in each big city in Australia : Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra, Perth and Adelaide of course...

After having studied the festival's guide, it's decided, next sunday at 6:00 pm, we will go watching : "Against the wind" (in french : "Des vents contraires") at the Palace Nova on Rundle Mall - Adelaïde.

Two reasons to be glad :

> I have already read the novel, so I know the story and it's a very beautifull story...

> The story takes place at Saint Malo, my region because I come from Brittany. So I am sure to discover beautifull landscape and point of view.

For the closing night, very beautiful film, for lovers of old movie and François Truffaut famous Director, with "Le dernier Métro", with Gérard Depardieu et Catherine Deneuve. A story with a beautiful storyline, a must-see classic (Sunday 8 April, 6.30pm for 7pm, Palace Nova Eastend Cinemas)

Looking forward to it.

All information : http://www.affrenchfilmfestival.org/