GERRINGONG PICS AND FLICKS

Gerringong Pics and Flicks showed 11 great films through 2019. Now we would love to hear your thoughts about those films that you saw. Each year Gerringong Pics and Flicks sends out an end-of-year survey to you, asking for your feedback on the films that you may have seen with us through the year. The link here will take you to our current survey and we hope you have a few minutes to share your thoughts and also to suggest films, or types of films, that you'd like to see in 2020. Thankyou for your support of Gerringong Pics and Flicks in 2019 and very best wishes to you for a safe and happy festive season. 2019 Film survey

Origin: France   Original title : En liberté !   Length: 108mins  Language: French  Yvonne is a police detective in a town on the French Riviera and the young widow of police chief Santi, a local hero. One day, she learns that her husband was in fact a crooked cop. Determined to right all the wrongs he committed, she will cross paths with one Antoine, who was unjustly imprisoned by Santi for 8 long years. Their encounter leads to a troublesome sequence of wild mishaps. A comedy with romance unlike any other!  [ https://mk2films.com/en/film/the-trouble-with-you/ ] By the director of PRICELESS (2006 )

There will be no Pics and Flicks screening this month  as Kiama Council is making repairs on the Gerringong Town Hall. Please join us on 1st November to see the award-winning French comedy that combines laughs, action and romance. More details here soon or check our Facebook page.

Please note:  Kiama Council is doing maintenance at Gerringong Town Hall through October so our film night has been brought forward to Friday 27th September. Our November screening will be back to our usual first Friday of the month, 1st November 2019. Woman at War "Near Perfect.  Is there anything rarer than an intelligent feel-good film that knows how to tackle urgent global issues with humour?  Look no further."  Variety.     Woman at War , is a dark comedy that takes as its catastrophic subject matter the despoliation of planet Earth and one woman's secret eco-warrior response to local environmental assault in rural Iceland. Halla, the main character balances her environmentalist efforts with a 'usual' life, including  leading a local choir and seeking to create a family. The director,  Benedikt Erlingsson, has a career in theatre, film and tv.  His substantial skills ensure this film brings  a warmth, wit and wisdom that transcend natio

Macadam Stories Rating: M Length: 100 mins Cast: Gustave Kervern, Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi, Isabelle Huppert, Michael Pitt Director and author Samuel Benchetrit brings much of his autobiographical book Asphalt Chronicles to the screen as Macadam Stories, a series of interconnected vignettes set in a public housing complex on the outskirts of Paris. With a focus on six characters, we meet the penny-pinching loaner Sternkowitz (Gustave Kervern from In The Courtyard – Festival 2015), who forges an unlikely relationship with a night nurse (Valeria Bruni-Tedeschi). In another thread, inquisitive adolescent Charly (the director’s son Jules Benchetrit) and Jeanne (Isabelle Huppert), an ageing movie star, form a bond that changes them both for the better. In the final instalment, American astronaut, John McKenzie (Michael Pitt) accidentally lands on the apartment of a migrant, Mrs Hamida, and the pair communicate through fractured French while NASA busily stages a cover up.

GENRE:   Documentary DIRECTOR:   Agnès Varda DURATION:   89 Mins COUNTRIES:   France "Marking a long-awaited return to filmmaking in the year of her 90th birthday, Face Places sees iconic filmmaker Agnès Varda forging an unexpected collaboration with photographer JR as they embark on a road trip like no other. The two artists share a passion for images and how they’re created, displayed and shared; Varda through cinema, JR through his emotionally arresting outdoor installations. Inspired by this connection, they set out in JR’s photo booth-enhanced truck, exploring the villages and small towns of rural France and meeting its humble residents – all the while creating large-scale portraits plastered across unconventional locations. What follows is a heart-warming insight into unnamed communities, documented here in Varda’s typically playful and tender manner. A Cannes Film Festival award-winner and Academy Award nominee, Faces Places is a deeply charming and l

H irokazu Kore-eda ’s Shoplifters is a complex, subtle, mysterious film that builds to the most extraordinary surprise ending, a twist-reveal worthy of psychological suspense noir. Yet the film is nothing like that generically. In fact, it is another of the intricate and nuanced family dramas in the classical Japanese style, of which Kore-eda has made himself a modern master. Its significant plot shifts happen unobtrusively, almost invisibly, except for those big, heart-wrenching revelations in its final section.  Peter Bradshaw, Guardian.

Rating:  M Length:  110 mins Cast:  François Cluzet, François-Xavier Demaison, Toby Jones The new comedy from Philippe Le Guay ( The Women On The 6th Floor ), NORMANDY NUDE is a warm and wise tale starring the irrepressible François Cluzet ( The Country Doctor ,  The Intouchables ) as the mayor of a proud farming community who must put aside their grievances in order to save their village. Language: French with English subtitle

Please note that, just for May, the Pics and Flicks film will be on the SECOND Friday of the month. This is because the Surf Life Festival will be using the Town Hall on our usual first Friday. This wonderful Australian film will be screened by Surf Life and also by Pics and Flicks on these two Fridays. Please note that your 10-tixs and annual memberships will only be accepted for entry to the screening on 10th May. Breath, a profound Tim Winton adaptation that swirls with soul and beauty Simon Baker’s directorial debut is poetic without being pretentious, capturing the natural beauty of the WA coast and the complexity of coming of age    The natural beauty of the film’s coastal, Western Australian settings provides scope for symbolic interpretation. But like Winton’s novel, the film is unpretentiously profound, with a very Australian (and very cinematic) regard for allowing natural beauty to speak for itself. It is the rarest kind of sports movie, in that it

Pics and Flicks begins 2019 with an acclaimed film that examines Lebanese conflict and culture, in the courtroom.