NZ FILM SOCIETY
  • HOME
  • ABOUT
  • SOCIETIES
    • AUCKLAND
    • HAMILTON
    • TAURANGA
    • NEW PLYMOUTH
    • WHANGANUI
    • PALMERSTON NORTH
    • CARTERTON
    • WELLINGTON
    • NELSON
    • CANTERBURY
    • TIMARU
    • QUEENSTOWN
    • DUNEDIN
    • WESTPORT
  • 2022 SEASON
    • ROBERT ALTMAN
    • SCANDINAVIA
    • BREAKING THROUGH
    • CONTEMPORARY WORLD
    • CLASSIC & CULT
    • NZ FILM
    • FRENCH CONNECTIONS
    • AFRICAN CINEMA
    • GERMAN CINEMA

Lost in Paris
Paris pieds nus

Dominique Abel & Fiona Gordon  •   France  • ​  2016
84 mins  •  HD  •   tbc
​
 ​In French and English with English subtitles

In a snow-dusted Canadian village, Fiona dreams of someday travelling to Paris. She eventually fulfills that dream when she arrives to visit her adventurous Aunt Martha, only to discover that her aunt has gone missing. As Fiona scours the city, she encounters Dom, a friendly but annoying tramp who won’t leave her alone…

“Pure of vision, an ambitious accomplishment, and undeniably sweet”
– Time Out
DIRECTORS/SCREENPLAY: Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon
PRODUCER: Charles Gillibert
PHOTOGRAPHY: Claire Childeric, Jean-Christophe Leforestier
EDITOR: Sandrine Deegen
PRODUCTION DESIGNER: Nicolas Girault
COSTUME DESIGNER: Claire Dubien
WITH: Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon, Emmanuelle Riva, Pierre Richard

FESTIVALS: Telluride

REVIEW

“Here is one of the final screen appearances of Emmanuelle Riva, icon of movies from Michael Haneke’s Amour to Gillo Pontecorvo’s Kapò and Alain Resnais’s Hiroshima Mon Amour, who died in January at the age of 89. It is a delectably gentle, elegant, self-effacing performance. Riva plays a lovably scatty old lady called Marthe in this Tati-esque comedy from French writer-directors Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon. The movie they have jointly devised, and in which they star, is a clever, funny and distinctly unworldly comedy with an insouciant line in visual humour.
 
Fiona (Fiona Gordon) is a young goof from Canada who comes to Paris to visit her similarly away-with-the-fairies aunt Marthe (Riva). A mishap on the banks of, and then in, the Seine leads to an encounter with a romantic tramp called Dom (Dominique Abel). It’s a classic French entertainment that could have been produced almost any time in the last 60 years. There is a sophistication in its childlike guilelessness and also a cameo for veteran French comedy player Pierre Richard. This movie is as sweet-natured as Abel and Gordon’s debut film Rumba, and they break out some serious tango movies here, too. It’s a little gem."

— Peter Bradshaw, Guardian


FILM SOCIETY SCREENINGS

Whanganui   
Monday, 22 November, 7:0pm

WHANGANUI FILM SOCIETY schedule >> 

Film Societies of Aotearoa New Zealand

HOME
ABout
Societies
New Zealand Federation of Film Societies  |  PO Box 9544, Te Aro, Wellington, NZ  
Phone: +64 4 385 0162  |  Fax: +64 4 801 7304  |  Email: 
michael@nziff.co.nz
  • HOME
  • ABOUT
  • SOCIETIES
    • AUCKLAND
    • HAMILTON
    • TAURANGA
    • NEW PLYMOUTH
    • WHANGANUI
    • PALMERSTON NORTH
    • CARTERTON
    • WELLINGTON
    • NELSON
    • CANTERBURY
    • TIMARU
    • QUEENSTOWN
    • DUNEDIN
    • WESTPORT
  • 2022 SEASON
    • ROBERT ALTMAN
    • SCANDINAVIA
    • BREAKING THROUGH
    • CONTEMPORARY WORLD
    • CLASSIC & CULT
    • NZ FILM
    • FRENCH CONNECTIONS
    • AFRICAN CINEMA
    • GERMAN CINEMA