This Saturday MIFS film features: 'Cafe del Flore' (MA) a beautifully shot, beautifully performed and really heart-wrenching film where two love stories set decades apart are intertwined.

Duration: 120
Genre: Drama
Director: Jean-Marc Vallee
Lead actor: Kevin Parent
Cast: Vanessa Paradis, Helene Florent, Evelyne Brochu
Producer: Pierre Even, Marie-Claude Poulin
Screenplay: Jean-Marc Vallee
Distributor: Icon Film Distribution
Language: French
Country: France

At The Movies Review - Margaret Pomeranz: 4.5 stars, David: 3 stars.

Review by David Strattan (At the Movies):

Meanwhile in present-day Montreal, Antoine, KEVIN PARENT, a successful DJ, lives with his girlfriend Rose, EVELYNE BROCHU, and his two daughters; flashbacks show that the girls are the daughters of Carole, Helene Florent, Antoine's first love.

Dazzling and puzzling in about equal proportions, CAFE DE FLORE is a two-level film in which the two segments, different in tone and time, are mysteriously linked. A bit too mysteriously, because it may take some kind of treatise to work it all out. Carole tells her best friend she dreams of a boy who sounds like Laurent; Antoine's parent's home contains another link to the past. There are strange recurring images. It's all a bit of a mystery, and unless you can unravel it more successfully than I managed to do, it makes for a somewhat frustrating experience. Yet there's something quite haunting about the film, and perhaps more than one viewing is required to sort it all out.

Screening at: The Magnetic Island RSL Hall, 31 Hayles Avenue, Arcadia.Dinner Service, refreshments and bar available from 6.30pm till 8.00pm. Screening: 8pm. Please be early so we may start PROMPTLY at 8.00 pm
Admission: Adults $10.00 Conc. $8.00. Members Free.
Annual membership $50.00. Conc. $40.00.

Annual membership includes admission for one calendar year (10 screenings) and a discount to the Film Festival (March each year). Half-yearly also available.