French Film Festival Weekend

Michel Hazanavicius (Oscar-winning director of The Artist) delivers a brilliantly realised glimpse into the life of iconoclastic French filmmaking legend Jean-Luc Godard, his search for inspiration in late 1960s Paris and his subsequent spiralling into philosophical and romantic crisis.

The social and economic issues of provincial France are explored through the medium of education in this new film by Laurent Cantet as he captures the jostling tensions between a group of antsy teenagers attending a writing workshop and their teacher’s attempts to guide them.

François Ozon’s new sleek but gleefully irreverent erotic thriller sees the prolific French auteur ramping up the sexual tension while keeping his tongue firmly in his cheek.

The opening film at this year’s Cannes Film Festival, director Arnaud Desplechin’s latest follows a filmmaker whose life is turned upside down when a former lover who had disappeared without trace some two decades previous, suddenly reappears.