Hi MIFFsters!,
How are you going to spend the last day of MIFF 2012?
Can we suggest watching Our Children (pictured)? Director Joachim Lafosse tackles one of cinema’s, and society’s, last taboos in this intelligent, deeply moving film. His "fifth and finest feature" (Variety) is far more than a story of a mother with post-natal depression; it's a dark domestic thriller anchored by devastating performances. It's on at 6.30pm tonight at Greater Union and this may be your last chance to see it.
Or you could take a brief rest from sitting in a darkened cinema to sit in the darkened Festival Lounge and watch God Bless America director Bobcat Goldthwait in conversation with comedians Peter Helliar and Justin Hamilton. It's on from 4pm. Click here for more information.
Here's to a fantastic final day of MIFF!
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MIFF PICKSHong Sang-soo’s In Another Country (pictured, left), stars Isabelle Huppert as a Frenchwoman named Anne. And a Frenchwoman named Anne. And another Frenchwoman named Anne!
Screening in competition at Cannes, In Another Country is classic Hong in the playful way it uses meta-narratives and structure, here blurring the line between three scripts – or is it just one? – and the ‘reality’ of the film to comment on miscommunication and human interconnection.
BOOK NOW for 6.30pm today at The Forum.
Girimunho is a magical, moving portrait that poignantly explores the relationship between tradition and contemporary life, reality and dream, life and death.
BOOK NOW for 4pm today at ACMI.
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MADMAN GIVEAWAYThanks to Madman’s new Festival at Home catalogue, we have 18 MIFF DVD packs to give away! Each five-DVD pack includes Melancholia (MIFF 11), Fire In Babylon (MIFF 11), The Loved Ones (MIFF 09), Troll Hunter (MIFF 11) and Submarine (MIFF 11).
Festival at Home will help you keep the MIFF fires burning after closing night; be sure to check out their full launch catalogue at festivalathome.com.
For your chance to win, simply email widescreen@miff.com.au with 'Festival at Home' in the subject line, and tell us your all-time favourite MIFF film! Entries close 5pm Monday 20 August.
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FESTIVAL LOUNGEFrom 4pm today in the Festival Lounge, prolific and prodigious comic talent Bobcat Goldthwait chats with comedians Peter Helliar and Justin Hamilton. From his directorial debut Shakes the Clown (famously dubbed the “Citizen Kane of alcoholic clown movies” by Martin Scorsese!) to World’s Greatest Dad (MIFF 10) and his new film, God Bless America, which ruthlessly takes apart the inanity of American pop culture, they'll cover Goldthwait's 30-year career in film and television.
Then, from 9pm, Bali Hai – one of Melbourne's best exotica-inspired instrumental artists – present a set of synthesised vintage film classics to close the Melbourne International Film Festival 2012.
Come down and farewell MIFF 2012 with us!
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MIFF PARTNER: GROLSCHYou have probably noticed the distinctive shape of Grolsch beer bottles at MIFF this year.
Grolsch are supporters of film around the world, and are the Official Beer Partner of MIFF as well as the Presenting Partner of MIFF Shorts.
Cheers, Grolsch!
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