Johnny Depp movie among highlights of Cork French Film Festival
Maïwenn and Johnny Depp in Jeanne du Barry at the Cork French Film Festival.
Not surprisingly, given Paris’s hosting of the summer Olympics, there’s a strong sports strand in this year’s Cork French Film Festival. Running from March 2-10 at the Arc Cinema in Cork city, the 35th edition of the annual festival includes films with stories based around swimming, tennis and horse-riding among its mix of classic and contemporary offerings. A number of the movies showing at the Arc also won Cesars at the recent awards ceremony for the French film industry.
The event is programmed by Cork festival stalwarts Úna Feely and Mick Hannigan, along with Valérie David McGonnell and Josselin le Gall, and is organised by the Alliance Française de Cork. Organisers stated: “This year again, we are thrilled to direct the festival and be part of the programming team, with Úna Feely and Mick Hannigan, to present the best of French-language films, by French, Canadian, and Belgian-Congolese directors. You don’t need to speak French to enjoy our programme, as all our films are subtitled. There is something for every cinephile in our festival.”
