La France

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When:

Mon 29 Mar ’10, 6:00pm–8:00pm

Where: The Paramount Theatre, 25 Courtenay Place, Te Aro, Wellington Show map

Restrictions: R15

Ticket Information:

Members only. 12-month memberships available at the door: $90.00
Booking fees may apply

Website:

www.filmsociety.wel ... 528&sy=2010

Favourites:

Wellington Film Society

(Serge Bozon, France 2007)
Winner of France's Jean Vigo Award for the year's most remarkable debut, the elegantly assured La France mixes genres - period romance, war movie and pop album - to confoundingly pleasurable effect. As WWI rages, Camille (Sylvie Testud) receives a letter from her husband at the front, telling her that she will never see him again. Determined to prove him wrong, she sets off, disguised as a boy, to find him. She falls in with a lost regiment she meets in a forest, and their strange, detached war-weary world becomes the landscape of her romantic quest. In the film's most amazing invention, the action pauses while the men gather to sing their hearts out - to tunes that might have been written 45 years later. "Sublime... a holy union of war movie and love story, consecrated in the chapel of pop."
- San Francisco Bay Guardian