Heading out to the Sydney Film Festival? We have two double passes to give away!
SFF is running now and will continue until June 19th. Is that enough time to see all the films we want to see? We have a couple top picks, which also happen to be the two films we have double passes for.
What's on the SFF agenda this year? Head to sff.org.au and find out.
Email why you’d like to go and which film you’d like to see of the two listed below to This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it . Best answer wins!
All About Love (pictured)
Monday 13th June 2:30PM Event Cinemas George Street
Queer Hong Kong gets a mainstream makeover in Ann Hui's sparkling romantic comedy, which features more relationship permutations than an episode of Modern Family. Bisexual Macy (Sandra Ng) is a free-spirited lawyer who reconnects with ex-paramour Anita (Vivian Chow) at a pre-natal yoga class. Both of them are accidentally pregnant from incidental affairs - Macy from a sex education lesson with an inappropriate client, and Anita from a one-night stand with an internet date as premature as he is youthful! The rekindling of their romance is complicated by their different ideas about proceeding with their pregnancies, the input of another of Macy's ex-girlfriends and her long-term lesbian partner, and the bumbling persistence of the two fathers-to-be. The stellar cast (including Cantopop princess Chow in her first appearance in 14 years) deliver charming performances in this buoyant film that is direct and upbeat about gender politics in a culture still burdened by taboo.
Old Cats
Tuesday 14th June 6:15pm Dendy Opera Quays
Sebastián Silva and Pedro Peirano (who co-wrote Silva's 2009 SFF Official Competition contender, The Maid) have crafted an endearing, and blackly comic ode to real-life Chilean theatre couple Bélgica Castro and Alejandro Sieveking, who play octogenarian Isadora and her somewhat younger husband Enrique. The affectionate couple share a big rambling apartment with their two fat, contented cats and are struggling with the onset of Isadora's dementia. Things take an unexpected turn when their coked-up, conniving daughter Rosario and her butch girlfriend Hugo pay a visit, having hatched a grand scheme to procure the parental apartment. (Claudia Celedón and Catalina Saavedra, who were the housewife and titular character in The Maid, are hilarious). Silva and Peirano's agile script dovetails with the improvisational skills of these four consummate performers who unravel layers of guilt and repressed accusations to produce a darkly funny and emotionally raw exploration of a complex mother-daughter relationship.
