Film Festivals 2009
Mother (2009)
7.8/10
Director: Joon-ho Bong
Starring: Weon Bin, Jin Gu
Widowed for a long time, a mother lives alone with her only son. He is 28 years old, a shy and quiet young man. In the aftermath of a terrible murder,... Read more
In the Loop (2009)
7.5/10
Director: Armando Iannucci
Starring: Peter Capaldi, James Gandolfini, Tom Hollander, David Rasche, Gina McKee, Anna C...
This razor-sharp political satire is the debut feature from Armando Iannucci, long-time BBC writer/producer behind such classics as 'I'm Alan Partridg... Read more
The Man in the Hat (2009)
Director: Luit Bieringa
Starring: Narrated by, Sam Neill
Peter McLeavey has run his gallery in Wellington for more than 40 years, becoming a legendary figure of the city and the New Zealand art community. Mc... Read more
The September Issue (2009)
7/10
Director: R J Cutler
Starring: Sienna Miller, Anna Wintour, Grace Coddington
Vogue is the world's most powerful fashion magazine, and each year it's autumn issue highlights designs and designers that it's editors think will be... Read more
Coco Avant Chanel ( Coco Before Chanel ) (2009)
6.7/10
Director: Anne Fontaine
Starring: Alessandro Nivola, Emmanuelle Devos, Marie Gillain, Benoit Poelvoorde, Audrey Ta...
Audrey Tautou plays the headstrong, self-sufficient designer Gabrielle 'Coco' Chanel who, in pre-First World War France, was one of the first women to... Read more
The Class ( Entre Les Murs ) (2008)
7.5/10
Director: Laurent Cantet
Starring: Francois Begaudeau, Franck Keita, Nassim Amrabt, Esmerelda Ouertani
French director Laurent Cantet does something miraculous with the well-worn conceit of a teacher and his underprivileged students in this fresh and op... Read more
Flame and Citron (2008)
Director: Ole Christian Madsen
Starring: Thure Lindhardt, Stine Stengade, Mads Mikkelsen
'Flame & Citron' tells the story of two heroes of the Danish resistance to the Nazi occupation, but it is far from your typical World War II period pi... Read more
Wake in Fright (1971)
7.7/10
Director: Ted Kotcheff
Starring: Gary Bond, Donald Pleasence, Chips Rafferty, Sylvia Kay, Jack Thompson, John Mei...
A naive young teacher finds himself in a remote outback school where the 'pupils' are more interested in killing kangaroos and sexual experimentation... Read more
Mary and Max (2009)
8.1/10
Director: Adam Elliot
Starring: Barry Humphries, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Toni Collette, Eric Bana, Renee Geyer
Mary Dinkle (voice of Toni Collette), a chubby lonely eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max Horovitz (Philip Seymour Hoffman... Read more
Boy A (2007)
7.6/10
Director: John Crowley
Starring: Andrew Garfield, Peter Mullan, Siobhan Finneran, Skye Bennett, Alfie Owen
A hauntingly ruminative tale of redemption and the pain of starting over, based on the novel by Jonathan Trigell. Jack is a young ex-con desperate to... Read more