French Film Festival

Presented by Alliance Française of Armidale Inc. Experience the best of French cinema with a selection of films!

10.00am – The Richest Woman in the World (M – mature themes, coarse language, nudity and sexual references), 2hrs 1 min, Comedy) – An elderly billionaire woman gives hundreds of millions of euros to a younger gay artist she is close to. Her daughter files a complaint for abuse of a vulnerable person and a scandal erupts. Loosely based on Liliane Bettencourt, the late L’Oreal heiress and her daughter.

4.45pm – The French Job (M – coarse language), 1hr 34 mins, Drama) – Jonathan, an expert in luxury watches, leads a grey and monotonous life until he meets Eric, a charming conman and dealer in stolen goods. Fascinated by his lifestyle, Jonathan is drawn deeper and deeper into the world of criminal transactions. The situation spirals out of control when the virtuoso thief Joe joins them. In 2010, the trio committed one of the most daring robberies in history – they stole five masterpieces by Picasso, Matisse and Modigliani from the Museum of Modern Art in Paris.

7.00pm – The Rookie Guide (M – coarse language), 1hr 25 mins, Comedy) – Yann can’t find a job he likes or can keep, and dreams of a better life. One day he learns that the famous travel guide Le Routard pays its employees to travel the world. Surely the perfect free holiday! Smooth-talking his way through the door, Yann manages to get himself hired for a trial research trip to Morocco, but he rapidly comes to realise that he’s seriously underestimated the job… Beguiled by Sofia, a feisty tourist guide, Yann gets swept up in an art trafficking operation led by the infamous mobster art dealer Dr Charoux and is plunged into an adventure where nothing will go as planned!