The Extraordinary (Hors Normes) Directed by Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano. Featuring Vincent Cassel, Reda Kateb, Hélène Vincent, Bryan Mialoundama, Alban Ivanov, Benjamin Lesieur, Marco Locatelli, and Catherine Mouchet. In French with English subtitles. Showing at the Alliance Francaise French Film Festival 2020 across Australia. This French drama was released as Hors Normes at the … Continue reading The One Review: The Extraordinary / Hors Normes (2019 Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano)
I was very privileged to have experienced the CinefestOZ Film Festival down in the beautiful Margaret River region in South West Australia recently. It is a neatly-styled, homegrown festival with a community feel and a strong focus on Indigenous film-making. It mainly showcases Australian films, but with a tinge of international influence from the likes … Continue reading Review Special: 2019 CinefestOz Film Festival, Western Australia
This science film festival was screening across Australia in May and June 2019, and will embark on a second round throughout August. And several of the films will be shown elsewhere across the world over the next year or so. The basic aim of SCINEMA is to put science back into cinema, something I would … Continue reading Review Special: SCINEMA 2019 – International Science Film Festival
Yesterday (2019, Working Title Films and Universal Pictures) Directed by Danny Boyle. Story by Jack Barth and Richard Curtis. Starring Himesh Patel, Lily James, Kate McKinnon, Robert Carlyle and Ed Sheeran Yesterday is a light comedy co-written by Richard Curtis (Four Weddings and a Funeral and Notting Hill) and directed by Danny Boyle (Trainspotting and … Continue reading The Two Reviews: Yesterday and Parasite
The 2019 French Film Festival of Australia is in its 30th year now. It is the largest film festival dedicated to French cinema in the world and is presented by the Alliance Française of Australia. The festival will screen French films across many Luna Palace Cinemas in Perth from mid-March to mid-April, as well as … Continue reading Review Special: The 2019 French Film Festival of Australia – Advanced screening of The Sisters Brothers
Momentary Cinema 