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Careless Love (MA15+)
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Director: John Duigan (Lawn Dogs, Head In The Clouds)
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Australian director John Duigan returns home to make his first Australian film since audience favourites The Year My Voice Broke, Flirting and Sirens. Linh (Nammi Le) is a Vietnamese Australian university student who begins working secretly an escort. Managing to keep her two lives separate, she develops a close rapport with one of her clients, an enigmatic American art dealer. But when she falls for a fellow student, her worlds collide and she must deal with the emotional chaos that follows. |
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A deeply profound and touching film about the universality of tradition and loss. When Miron's (Yuriy Tsurilo) beloved wife Tanya (Yuliya Aug) passes away, he asks his best friend Aist (Igor Sergeev) to help him say goodbye to her according to the rituals of the Merja culture, an ancient Finno-Ugric tribe from Lake Nero in the picturesque region of West-Central Russia. As the two men set out on a road trip thousands of miles across the boundless land to the banks of the sacred lake where the couple spent their honeymoon, Miron shares intimate memories of his conjugal life. |
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Director Tim Burton brings the cult classic series "Dark Shadows" to the big screen in a gothic comedy featuring an all-star cast, led by Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer and Helena Bonham Carter. It is the year 1752 and Barnabas Collins (Depp) is the master of Collinwood Manor. A rich, powerful and an inveterate playboy, he makes the grave mistake of breaking the heart of Angelique Bouchard (Eva Green). A witch, in every sense of the word, Angelique turns him into a vampire, and then burys him alive. Two centuries later, Barnabas is inadvertently freed from his tomb and emerges into the very changed world of 1972. He returns to Collinwood Manor to find that his once grand estate has fallen into ruin, and the dysfunctional remnants of the Collins family have fared little better. |
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Trishna (MA15+)
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Director: Michael Winterbottom
Run time: 113 mins
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From acclaimed director Michael Winterbottom (GENOVA, A MIGHTY HEART) comes a modern day re-telling of Thomas Hardy's classic novel "Tess of the d’Urbervilles". Starring SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE’S Freida Pinto, TRISHNA is a beautifully shot tale of love and tragedy set across modern day rural Rajasthan and the thriving metropolis of Mumbai. Trishna (Freida Pinto) lives a poor, sheltered life until one day she meets the wealthy young Jay (Riz Ahmed), who has come back to India to work in his father's hotel business. |
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In the last moments of World War II, a secret Nazi space program evaded destruction by fleeing to the Dark Side of the Moon. During 70 years of utter secrecy, the Nazis construct a gigantic space fortress with a massive armada of flying saucers, with the aim of one day returning to claim Earth.
This quirky comedy is one of a new wave of productions, including Artemis Eternal and RiP!: A Remix Manifesto, produced in collaboration with an on-line community of film enthusiasts, that are creating a new kind of participatory cinema. Moon Nazis? A Sarah Palin look-alike as American president? You asked for it! |
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Delicacy (M)
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Directors: David Foenkinos, Stéphane Foenkinos
Run time: 105 mins
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Based on David Foenkinos’ best-selling novel, Delicasy stars Audrey Tautou (Amelie) as Natalie, a happily married, successful career woman, convinced the future is full of promise until a tragic accident turns her world upside down. Years later, still bruised by grief, she impulsively kisses her colleague Markus (Francois Damiens). For Natalie, it is just a kiss. For the awkward, unassuming Markus, it is the moment in which he falls hopelessly, helplessly in love. But how will he ever convince such a beautiful, intelligent, confused young woman that he is the man who can bring her back to life? |
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The Woman In The Fifth (M)
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Director: Pawel Pawlikowski
Running Time: 80 min
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Based on the novel by Douglas Kennedy, The Woman In The Fifth is a Paris-set psychological thriller starring Academy-Award nominees Ethan Hawke and Kristin Scott Thomas. American writer Tom Ricks (Hawke) arrives in Paris desperate to put his life together again and win back the love of his estranged wife and daughter. When things don’t go according to plan, he ends up in a shady hotel in the suburbs, having to work as a night guard to make ends meet. When beautiful and mysterious stranger, Margit (Scott Thomas) walks into his life and things start looking up for Tom and their passionate and intense relationship triggers a string of inexplicable events. |
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King of Devil's Island (M)
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Director: Marius Holst
Run time: 116 mins
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Based on remarkable true events in Norway in 1915, King Of Devil’s Island tells an extraordinary story of friendship, courage, loyalty and rebellion. On the remote ice-bound island reform school Bastøy (located in the fjord of Oslo), life is tough. Hard work and discipline are what the guards believe will convert these youths into well-adjusted Christian citizens. So when enigmatic 17-year-old Erling (magnetic newcomer Benjamin Helstad) arrives at Bastøy, his defiant attitude makes an immediate impression on the other boys, and rattles the authority of the stern governor (Stellan Skarsgård). Erling quickly determines the only means of survival is escape, but this unwittingly transforms him from the role of fugitive into the leader of a rebellion, provoking an astonishing series of events that remain unparalleled in Norwegian history. |
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A powerful and inspirational story about family, friends and the challenges we all face while navigating an ever-changing and complicated world. Martin Sheen plays Tom, an irascible American doctor who comes to France to deal with the tragic loss of his son (played by Emilio Estevez). Rather than return home, Tom decides to embark on the historical pilgrimage "The Way of St. James" to honor his son's desire to finish the journey. What Tom doesn't plan on is the profound impact this trip will have on him. Through unexpected and oftentimes amusing experiences along "The Way," Tom discovers the difference between "the life we live and the life we choose.” |
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Wish You Were Here (MA15+)
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Director: Kieran Darcy-Smith
Run time: 93 mins
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Nominated for the Grand Jury prize at this year’s Sundance Film Festival, Wish You Were Here is a powerful psychological drama/mystery starring Joel Edgerton, Felicity Price and Teresa Palmer. Edgerton and Price play husband and wife Dave and Alice who travel to South East Asia on a carefree holiday with Alice’s sister Steph (Teresa Palmer) and her new boyfriend Jeremy (Antony Starr). However, only three of the friends return back to Australia. Dave and Alice come home to their young family desperate for answers about Jeremy's mysterious disappearance and when Steph returns not long after, a brutal secret is revealed about the night her boyfriend went missing. Who amongst them knows what happened on that fateful night when they were dancing under a full moon in Cambodia? |
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Cafe De Flore (MA15+)
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Director: Jean-Marc Vallee (The Young Victoria, C.R.A.Z.Y)
Running Time: 120 mins
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In 2011, Antoine (Kevin Parent) has a life most people would envy as a successful club DJ living in Montreal with an international following. He has a beautiful girlfriend Rose (Evelyne Brochu), and is raising two healthy daughters. However, Rose is not Antoine's first love. He is still infatuated with his ex-wife Carole (Helene Florent), the mother of his children. Carole hopes he'll someday return to her, though despite his feelings there's little evidence to suggest he will. Conversely, in 1969, Jacqueline (Vanessa Paradis) is a single mother who is raising a seven-year-old son Laurent (Marin Gerrier). Laurent was born with Down's Syndrome, and is not expected to live past 25; Jacqueline is determined to do whatever she can for her boy during the time he has, but as the stress of these demands take their toll, we learn that she and Carole share a special connection. |
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The Lady (MA15+)
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Director: Luc Besson
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The Fifth Element, Nikita)
Run time: 132 mins
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Michelle Yeoh stars as Aung San Suu Kyi, the brave, charismatic Burmese dissident and non-violent proponent of democracy. Leaving Burma after the murder of her father (a General and hero to the people) Suu Kyi relocates to England, where she marries Oxford don Michael Aris and raises their family. But the plight of the Burmese continues to haunt Suu Kyi and on return to Rangoon she assumes leadership of the democratic party. But when she wins the country’s first democratic election in a landslide, she is immediately placed under house arrest. This visually stunning film is essentially about the love between Suu Kyi and Michael and the exemplary courage, resolution and dedication to democracy they showed over the years in the face of a vindictive military government. |
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Romantics Anonymous (M)
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Director: Jean-Pierre Améris
Run time: 80 mins
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Romantics Anonymous tells the story of Angélique (Isabelle Carré), a gifted chocolate-maker whose uncontrollable shyness prevents her from acknowledging her talents. Struggling chocolatier Jean-René (Benoît Poelvoorde), who also suffers from a similar case of awkward bashfulness that threatens to drown his company, hires Angelique as his new sales associate. Realizing she's attracted to her boss, Angelique decides to anonymously develop a new line of chocolates to save the company. With the future of the business hanging in the balance, Angelique and Jean-Rene must overcome their limitations and confess their sweet affections for one another in this delectable comedy. |
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This Must Be The Place (M)
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Director: Paolo Sorrentino
Run Time: 114 mins
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Sean Penn plays Cheyenne, a bored, retired, wealthy American goth rock star living in Dublin with his down-to-earth wife of 35 years, Jane (Frances McDormand.) When he learns of the death of his father - who he has been estranged from for over 30 years - he returns to America to embark on a road trip that will change him forever. His quest is driven by the revelation that his father was humiliated in Auschwitz at the hands of an SS officer, who may still be alive and living in America. Cheyenne's search takes him across the heartland of a country now foreign to him, encountering some great people as he is reawakened to the possibility of reconciliation and self-discovery. |
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Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (M)
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Director: Lasse Hallström
Run time: 107 mins
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From the director of Chocolat & The Cider House Rules, and the academy-award winning screenwriter of SlumDog Millionaire. When Britain's leading fisheries expert (Ewan McGregor) is approached by a consultant (Emily Blunt) to help realise a sheikh's (Amr Waked) vision of bringing the sport of fly-fishing to the desert, he immediately thinks the project is both absurd and unachievable. But when the Prime Minister's overzealous press secretary (Kristin Scott Thomas) latches on to it as a "good will" story, this unlikely team will put it all on the line and embark on an upstream journey of faith and fish to prove the impossible, possible. |
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The Raid (MA15+)
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Director: Gareth Huw Evans
Run time: 100 mins
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Director Gareth Evans (Merantau) and rising martial-arts star Iko Uwais reunite in this adrenaline-fuelled action film. Deep in the heart of Jakarta’s slums lies an impenetrable safe house for the world’s most dangerous killers and gangsters, until now considered untouchable to even the bravest of police. An elite swat team is tasked with raiding the safe house in order to take down the notorious drug lord that runs it. But when a chance encounter with a spotter blows their cover and news of their assault reaches the drug lord, the building’s lights are cut and all the exits blocked. Stranded on the 6th floor with no way out, the unit must find a way to survive their mission. |
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2011 Cannes Film Festival critics favourite and winner
of the FIPRESCI International Federation of Film Critics
Award, acclaimed director Aki Kaurismäki’s
enchantingly comic tale is set in the seaside town of
Le Havre, France. Marcel Marx, a former author who has
retreated into a voluntary exile there to become a shoe-shiner,
finds his life taking an interesting turn when fate suddenly
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A Dangerous Method (MA15+)
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Director: David Cronenberg (Eastern Promises, A History of Violence)
Run time: 99 mins
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Set on the eve of World War I in Zurich and Vienna and drawn from true-life events, A Dangerous Method is a provocative tale of sexual and intellectual discovery, ambition and deceit. Seduced by the challenge of an impossible case, a driven psychiatrist Dr. Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) takes the unbalanced yet beautiful Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley) as his patient. Jung's weapon is the method of his master, his mentor, the renowned Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen), but soon both men fall under Sabina's spell. |
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The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel (PG)
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Directed By: John Madden (Shakespeare in Love, The Debt)
Run time: 123 minutes
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Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Bill Nighy, Tom Wilkinson and Dev Patel star in this heart-warming British comedy drama about a group of retirees who decide to "outsource" their retirement to the less expensive and seemingly exotic India. Enticed by advertisements for the newly restored Marigold Hotel and bolstered with visions of a life of leisure, they arrive to find the palace a shell of its former self. Though the new environment is less luxurious than imagined, they are forever transformed by their shared experiences, discovering that life and love can begin again when you let go of the past. |
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Jiro Dreams Of Sushi (G)
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Director: David Gelb
Run time: 81 min
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Enthralling documentary that chronicles the life of Jiro Ono, the most famous sushi chef in Tokyo. For most of his 85 years, Jiro has been perfecting the art of making sushi. He works from sunrise to well beyond sunset to taste every piece of fish; meticulously train his employees; and carefully mould and finesse the impeccable presentation of each sushi creation. Although his restaurant Sukiyabashi Jiro only seats ten diners, it is a phenomenon in Tokyo that has won the prestigious 3-Star Michelin review, making him the oldest Michelin chef alive. |
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In 2008, the world held its breath as the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression unfolded. In this powerful drama starring Kevin Spacey, Paul Bettany, Zachary Quinto, Jeremy Irons and Demi Moore, the downsizing of a corporate firm causes newly-redundant executive Eric Dale (Stanley Tucci) to pass along some research he’s been working on to fledgling banker Peter Sullivan (Quinto). When Sullivan continues Dale’s work he discovers the firm’s financial position is on a precipice, at risk of falling into financial disaster. As the various executives across the company become aware of the tenuous situation they are each forced to make unthinkable decisions with untold ramifications. Winner: Robert Altman Award - Independent Spirit Awards, Best Debut Director – National Board of Review & New York Film Critics Circle Awards, Best Original Screenplay – San Francisco Critics Circle Awards. |
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A Separation (PG)
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Director: Asghar Farhadi
Run time: 123 minites
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Winner of the Golden Bear for Best Film and the Silver Bears for Best Actress and Best Actor at the 61st Berlin International Film Festival, A Separation is a compelling drama that focuses on a contemporary Iranian middle-class couple. Nader (Peyman Maadi) and Simin (Leila Hatami) have been married for fourteen years and live with their eleven-year-old daughter Termeh (Sarina Farhadi) in Tehran. Nader and Simin are attempting to divorce on the grounds of irreconcilable differences. They have acquired visas to emigrate from Iran - Simin is anxious to ensure a better future for Termeh, but Nader does not want to leave his elderly father who suffers from Alzheimer's disease. When a judge refuses to formalise their separation, Simin departs the family home, leaving the obstinate Nader to hire a housekeeper Razieh (Sareh Bayat) that leads to an altercation that has unexpected consequences. Propelled by an acute attention to class, religion and gender differences, Farhadi's meticulous script explores the cultural, social and judicial minefield that plagues contemporary Iran. |
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The Artist (PG)
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Director: Michel Hazanavicius
Run time: 100 mins
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A sublimely funny love letter to the end of silent movies in 1920s Hollywood, The Artist’s depiction of Hollywood’s golden age makes it this year’s Oscar dark horse. George Valentin (Cannes 2011 Best Actor winner Jean Dujardin) is a handsome and debonair star whose career comes to a crushing end with the advent of ‘talking pictures’. As Valentin quickly disappears from the A-list his former co-star Peppy Miller (Bérénice Bejo) shoots to stardom, potentially leaving their budding romance in her wake. Winner of the Audience Awards at both the San Sebastian and Hamptons International Film Festivals, The Artist also took out the ‘Palm Dog’ award at Cannes for Valentin’s canine co-star Uggy. |
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Room (M)
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Director: Tommy Wiseau (Homeless in America, Neighbors)
Running time: 99 mins.
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Written, directed and starring Tommy
Wiseau, The Room is like no other film you’ve seen.
Johnny (Tommy Wiseau) seems to have it all- a beautiful
fiancée, Lisa, great friends and a job with a promotion
in the works. But Lisa, (Juliette Danielle) isn’t
who she seems. Manipulative and restless, Lisa sets her
sights on Johnnys best friend Mark (Greg Sestero) and
they start a torrid affair and Johnny’s perfect
world starts to crumble. Featured on Adult Swim’s
Tim and Eric, Awesome Show, Great Job! and beloved by
comic actors such as David Cross and Alec Baldwin, The
Room has garnered a massive cult following, selling out
sessions across the US, leaving audiences stunned and
wondering “how can so bad, be so good?” Don’t
miss your chance to see The Room at Cinema Nova.
Read director/writer/star
Tommy Wiseau’s letter to his Australian fans.
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