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Alliance Française Central Queensland is delighted to invite you to its

2025 French Film Festival

Friday 16 May - Sunday 18 May

The Walter Reid Centre (16-17 May)

The Yeppoon Cinemas (18 May)

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Gala Evening 16 May

$30 includes a glass of French wine and finger food. No concession for this film.

All other sessions at the WRC

$18 without concession

$15 students, concession & members of Rocky Flix, Keppel Coast Flix, Alliance Française CQ

Yeppoon Cinemas

Sunday 18 May: The Count of Monte Christo. Tickets sale on the Cinemas’ website.

Ticket price for this movie set by The Yeppoon Cinemas.  

Friday 16 May - Gala Evening: doors open at 6pm - Film starts at 7pm

$30 includes a glass of French wine and finger food. No concession for this film.

Jeanne du Barry

Cast: Maïwenn, Johnny Depp

Duration: 116 mins, Rated M  

Pre-Revolution France: Jeanne Bécu, the illegitimate daughter of a monk, hungers for culture and pleasure and is determined to escape her upbringing. With charm and wit, she builds a reputation as a skilled courtesan and her benefactor, the Comte du Barry, presents her to the widowed King (Depp).

She is soon anointed his new favourite. Louis moves her into his Versailles palace, sparking scandal and jeopardising relations with the newly arrived Marie Antoinette...

Shot on location at Versailles and featuring majestic costumes and production design, Jeanne Du Barry is a visual feast for the senses. It is Depp’s first French speaking role.

Saturday 17 May

Doors open at 2.30pm | session starts at 3pm

A difficult Year

Cast: Pio Marmaï,Jonathan Cohen, Noémie Merlant, Mathieu Amalric, Grégoire Leprince-Ringuet

Duration: 133 mins, Rated M

The wildly entertaining new comedy from the directors of The Intouchables and C'est la vie stars Pio Marmaï and Jonathan Cohen as two compulsive spenders who get much more than they bargained for when they try and scam their way out of trouble.

Both in debt up to their necks, they turn to a community worker for help. However, at one of their group sessions, they stumble into an adjoining meeting room hosting a gathering of young social activists.

Attracted more by the free beer than the group's struggle against consumerism and protection of the environment, Albert and Bruno join the movement without any particular conviction but soon sense an opportunity... if they don't get arrested first.

Saturday 17 May

Doors open at 6.30pm | session starts at 7pm

Iris and the Men

Cast: Laure Calamy, Vincent Elbaz

Duration: 98 mins, Rated M

After the smash-hit international success of Antoinette In The Cévennes, writer/director Caroline Vignal and the fabulous Laure Calamy reunite for a comedy about reignited desire in the modern age.

“They’re not”. This is how Iris answers her doctor when she is asked how things are going with her husband.  Soon Iris will be turning 50, so she dares to open Pandora’s box and registers herself on a dating app. Immediately, men start to appear, as if it were raining…So begins this cheeky, joyous and conversation-starting delight, in which Calamy completes her transformation from quirky character actress into unadulterated comedic star.

   YEPPOON  CINEMAS        

Sunday 18 May 3pm

The Count        of Monte Cristo

Marseille, 1815. The dreams of Edmond Dantès are about to come true; promoted to ship’s captain, he can finally marry the love of his life, Mercédès. But his success inspires jealousy… betrayed by his rivals, Dantès is denounced as a member of a pro-Napoleon conspiracy and incarcerated without trial in an isolated prison.  

A true cultural phenomenon in France (where it stormed the box office with close to 10 million tickets sold), THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO delivers luxurious, spectacular big-screen entertainment. Widely expected to sweep the 2025 César Awards, it’s a Festival must-see.

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