Antionette in the Cevennes
Sunday, 27 February 2022
Dubbo Regional Theatre and Convention Centre
155 Darling St Dubbo, NSW, 2830
02 6801 4378
3.50PM – Intermission from previous film – complimentary refreshments, tea and coffee will be served.
Alcoholic beverages will be available for purchase from the bar.
4.10PM – Antoinette in the Cevennes
Logline: Teacher Antoinette is looking forward to a holiday with her lover. To her horror, however, he cancels on her and takes his family to the mountains. When she follows him, she ends up on a trekking tour with a donkey.
The story: 40-something primary school teacher Antoinette (Laure Calamy) has been eagerly looking forward to a long-planned weekend escape with her married lover Vladimir (C’est la vie!’s Benjamin Lavernhe), the father of one of her pupils.
Fluctuating between poverty and glamour, she spends her days in a plush, wood-panelled office — where dictaphones and typewriters still reign and agents doze off after three-martini lunches — and her nights in a sink-less Brooklyn apartment with her socialist boyfriend.
Joanna’s main task is processing Salinger’s voluminous fan mail, but as she reads the heart-wrenching letters from around the world, she becomes reluctant to send the agency’s impersonal standard letter and impulsively begins personalizing the responses.
The results are both humorous and moving, as Joanna, while using the great writer’s voice, begins to discover her own. – Rotten Tomatoes
Starring Margaret Qualley and Sigourney Weaver
Running Time: 101 min
Genre: Drama/comedy
Rating: M
Language: English