TRANSYLVANIA

By Tony Gatlif

France
Screenplay: Tony Gatlif
Photography: Céline Bozon
Film Editor: Monique Dartonne
Music: Tony Gatlif, Delphine Mantoulet
In French with English subtitles
Rating: M

With: Asia Argento, Amira Casar, Birol Ünel

Festivals:
Cannes (Closing film /Ccompetition) 2006
AFI/Los Angeles Film Festival (World Cinema) 2006
Toronto International Film Festival (Contemporary World Cinema) 2006

Now showing:
Melbourne - Kino Dendy- April 24

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The latest film from Tony Gatlif (EXILES, VENGO, SWING, LATCHO DROM, GADJO DILO) and starring the remarkable and charismatic Asia Argento, TRANSYLVANIA is a romantic and vibrant tale of love lost and found. Peppered with a vibrant, authentic gypsy soundtrack, it's a heady road trip through an unknown landscape and an investigation into the meaning of freedom.

Zingarina arrives in Transylvania, in the heart of Romania, looking for the man she loves. She had met him in France, but one day he left without a word of explanation. With her friend, Marie, who jealously watches over her, Zingarina throws her body and soul into a romantic quest and gets caught up in a fascinating land. But when she finds her former lover in the midst of a pagan festival, he brutally rejects her. Mad with anguish, she then flees Marie, who reminds her too much of her past, to fully merge into this new land, Transylvania, where she meets Tchangalo, a loner, a man like her, without borders, without ties.

"A LITTLE GEM…glorious cinematography...a heady trip through an alien country" Empire

"ARGENTO IS REMARKABLE" BBC

"Gatlif is one of the unsung heroes of art house cinema" HOLLYWOOD REPORTER

"the music score is sensationally vivid and varied…the film roars into life whenever anyone picks up an instrument" SIGHT AND SOUND

AN OLD MISTRESS
(Une Vieille Maitresse)

By Catherine Breillat

France
In French with English subtitles
Rating: R 18+

With: Asia Argento, Fu’ad Ait Aattou, Roxane Mesquida

Comming soon in:
Brisbane - Palace Centro - April 17

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On the eve of the wedding of Ryno de Marigny to the virtuous Hermangarde, Ryno's mistress of 10 years, the tempestuous Vellini, refuses to accept that their passionate love affair has come to an end.
The film is the story of their affair, as told to Hermangarde's grandmother the Marquise de Flers by Ryno, bookended by the events of the days leading up to and the early days of the marriage.

Starring the darling of CANNES 2007, Asia Argento, Breillat regular Roxane Mesquida and newcomer, the immensely talented Fu'ad Aït Aattou, AN OLD MISTRESS (UNE VIEILLE MAÎTRESSE) marks a new type of film for Catherine Breillat. Following her series of 10 films concerned with female sexuality (including ROMANCE and A MA SOEUR! and ending in ANATOMY OF HELL) Breillat has made a film based upon the 19th Century novel of the same name by Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly (1808-89).

AN OLD MISTRESS premiered IN COMPETITION AT CANNES 2007.

"(4 stars) beautiful…wonderful…her (Breillat's) best film to date…Asia Argento is a revelation" David Stratton, At the Movies

"(4 stars) a tale of bohemian amour fou…shakes historical drama out of its petticoats" Jonathan Romney, Screen International

INSIDE PARIS (Dans Paris) (M)

By Christophe Honore

France

After breaking up with his long-time girlfriend, Paul returns to his father's home in Paris. Depressed and lethargic, he remains housebound whilst his younger brother walks the streets of Paris, Antoine Doinel style, chatting up girls.

"a genuinely unpretentious and delightful film, alternately sober and effervescent, steering clear of either heavy-going philosophising or dreaded whimsy" - Variety

Starring Romain Duris (The Beat My Heart Skipped, Exiles) and Louis Garrel (The Dreamers, Regular Lovers), DANS PARIS screened in the Directors' Fortnight of the CANNES FILM FESTIVAL.

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http://www.dansparis-lefilm.com/

THE PAGE TURNER (La Tourneuse de Pages) (PG)

BY Denis Dercourt

France

Set in the world of classical music, with a captivating score, THE PAGE TURNER is a taut psychological thriller about a carefully plotted revenge. A young woman becomes the page-turner of a famous pianist, only to have feelings from the past affect their relationship in the most cunning of ways. Stylish, subtle and often witty, it boasts excellent performances from leads Catherine Frot (Me and My Sister) and Déborah François (The Child).

THE PAGE TURNER screened in "Un Certain Regard" section at CANNES FILM FESTIVAL.

"(4STARS) PSYCHOLOGICALLY SATISFYING…A SINISTER STORY OF CLASS ENVY AND SIMMERING EMOTIONS" - BBC

"(4STARS) MANIPULATIVE, SERENELY PLAYFUL AND ENIGMATIC, DEBORAH FRANCOIS IS SENSATIONAL AS THE SOCIOPATHIC BLONDE IN THIS DELICIOUSLY ELEGANT AND VERY FRENCH PSYCHOLOGICAL THRILLER. A TREAT FOR LOVERS OF INTELLIGENT CINEMA" -Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

Read The Guardian review