seniors' film festival 2006
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A festival of fine films for discerning seniors. Monday 2 October - Friday 6 October > Seniors (55+) $3 Presented by ACMI and the Department of Victorian Communities as part of the 2006 Victorian Seniors' Festival.
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Set in post-war England, this moving film charts the education of young Jack in the wake of the death of his beloved mother Emily.
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The tale of a ragtag fishing community whose residents (in order to qualify for a new factory) must persuade a young doctor to live in their town.
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Director Ron Howard casts Tom Hanks and Audrey Tatou in his blockbuster adaptation of the bestselling suspense thriller by Dan Brown.
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Director Lasse Hallstrom assembles an international cast including Jeremy Irons, Oliver Pratt and Australian Heath Ledger in the title role.
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"A heartfelt, laughter-through-tears story aimed at the folks who lapped up Calendar Girls and The Full Monty." The Telegraph
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Pulitzer Prize-winner Annie E. Proulx's short story forms the basis of Oscar-winning director Ang Lee's sensitively rendered drama.
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Anthony Hopkins stars as Burt Munro, a man who never lets the dreams of his youth fade.
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"The best movie yet made from John Irving's fiction" The New York Times
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A memorable drama about a fourteen year-old boy's experience of war.
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This fascinating ode to the Ballets Russes combines rare archival footage, clips from Hollywood movies, letters, journals and interviews.
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Wheeler-dealer Jäeckie Zucker is up to his neck in trouble - his wife wants a divorce and the court bailiff is threatening him with jail.
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Live And Become follows the path of a nine-year old Ethiopian boy passed off as an African Jew in order to escape his war-torn homeland.
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This mordant black comedy has a pointed social critique at the core of its drama.
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Balding, down-cast François (Bernard Campan) enters a 'hooker-in-the-window' joint in Paris' Pigalle to meet the voluptuous Daniela (Monica Bellucci).
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Frank Keane can't seem to move beyond an all-consuming grief following the death of his wife, until the course of his life finally changes.
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