We don't go to many movies, but went twice to the recent French Film Festival.
Un Château en Italie, centres on a debt ridden palazzo in Piedmonte. Lovely setting there, but the scenes also move to Paris and London. The script was written and the film directed and starred Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, and included her former lover playing her lover and her mother playing her character's dotty mother as main characters in the cast. The film also made biographical reference to her brother who died of AIDS. (She left out her sister, wife of President Sarkozy.) An intense family saga nominated for Palme d'Or 2013 but got some testy reviews. I liked it but my wife didn't.
Belle et Sėbastian is set breathtakingly in the Rhône Alpes. We expected this to be a feel good story about a boy and his dog. It is in fact one of the genre of helping Jewish refugees escape Nazis in 1943. Thin story line but a really nice dog- Maremma I think.
The Rabble Theatre Company is the Malthouse's company in residence this year. They are currently presenting a re-think of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein as a female doctor who uses IVF- like techniques to create a monster in the form of an adult female with many many breasts. She is rejected. Loud screams, blinding lights and totally in your face.
Our email from Malthouse warned that "Frankenstein contains nudity, graphic imagery particularly related to pregnancy, sexual content, violence, adult themes, horror themes, coarse language, loud noises, strobe effects and smoke effects." Yes, all of that, but this is a serious and demanding piece of theatre raising questions about life and motherhood. I found it a memorable endurance trial, my wife thought it very worthwhile.
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