Focus on Girls 24/7
What:
Focus on Girls 24/7
Where:
ACMI Cinemas
When:
Fri July 3 - Sun July 12
Win:
Thanks to ACMI, we have 10 dbl passes to give away! You choose which films to see. To enter, email win@threethousand.com.au with the subject 'She's more than a lady'
When Norman Jewison was to film the Malcolm X story, Spike Lee protested that only a black who had experienced the specific challenges firsthand was qualified to direct. The Focus on Girls series at ACMI seems to ask "Should this theory extend to the sexes as well?" And if we were judging on the quality of flicks presented here my answer would be - goddamn yes!
Highlights include: Cleo From 5 to 7, directed by Agnes Varda - the only woman in the boys club of French New Wave - who shows the sunny side of a wait for cancer results. Czech masterpiece Daisies portrays two girls gone wild - in a world gone bad they just go mad! So few so-called art movies are as much fun as these two!
The series covers off a former fighter pilot turned school principal (Wings), pragmatic and adulterous East End housewives (Sparrows Can't Sing), one night stands that change lives (The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum) and the ultimate anti-Bonnie and Clyde film (Wanda).
This is a not-to-be-missed series that gives a long overdue airing to these gender-breaking films that despite huge critical acclaim are so rarely seen. Viva la femme!
Format: Festival
Mood: Smarts
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