LIFE IS A VERY STRANGE THING


Promoted By French a la Carte

Date: Wed, May 23, 2018 8:00PM

Where: Roseville Cinema
112 Pacific Hwy, Roseville, New South Wales, 2069, Australia

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  • General Admission: $20.00
  • Additional booking fee of $1.95 per ticket.
  • (Includes all applicable taxes)
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LIFE IS A VERY STRANGE THING

Year: 2018

Genre: Documentary - Biography

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Director: LES MCLAREN & ANNIE STIVEN

An Australian filmmaker meets an old friend in Paris… Frédéric has been a young rebel, ethnomusicologist, and executive of a multinational garbage business. But after decades living abroad he’s returned to a France on edge with terror attacks, and the rise of nationalist politics. Frédéric is a wily raconteur and collector, and as we follow his encounters with local characters in the streets of Paris and Bordeaux a rich mosaic of life emerges. And we discover Frédéric's grandfather, a colonial governor in Cambodia; his composer father Charles Duvelle whose recordings of traditional African music helped found the World Music movement; and Frédéric's niece Elvire, a Femen activist who protests against social injustice and the Far Right. The film is part road trip, part meditation, a wry and affectionate portrait by an outsider - with questions of what it is to be French in the 21st century.