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The French Film Festival in New Zealand has had a bit of a chequered history in recent years with changes of ownership and management as different operators attempted to run a profitable event with dwindling sponsorship resources. Last year the festival hit a perfect storm of Covid lockdowns followed by what you might call ‘auditorium reluctance’ on the part of its core audience even after cinemas reopened.
This year the festival returns in much better heart. A new organisation is presenting the event across the country and there’s a new festival director, Fergus Grady, who seems to have rounded up a decent array of titles from the carnage of Covid-era global film production. In fact, it’s the usual mix of costume epics, cop thrillers, romantic comedies and meditations on class and ‘Frenchness’. The French Film Festival has always been a crowd pleaser, and this year really is no different.
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