Lost Illusions (Illusions Perdues) Encore screening. Nambour Majestic Cinema
Sat, 14 May
|Nambour
Winner Best Film. French Cesars. In 1821, Lucien de Rubempré arrives in Paris as a sensitive and idealistic young poet determined to write a reputation-making novel. Instead, he finds himself swept into journalism, bribery and other temptations. Opening night film.


Time & Location
14 May 2022, 2:30 pm
Nambour, Centenary Square, Currie St, Nambour QLD 4560, Australia
About the Event
Trailer HERE
This is grand French cinema at its most lavish, and finest. An all-star cast dazzles in the spectacular and exhilarating new film by Xavier Giannoli (Marguerite, AF FFF16; The Singer, AF FFF13), an adaptation of Balzac’s classic novel about a young idealist who learns that anything can be bought and sold.
1821. Handsome poet Lucien (Benjamin Voisin - Moving On and Summer of 85, AF FFF21 - in a star-making turn) is poor, but highly ambitious. Failing to make a name for himself in his provincial hometown, he naively follows his married patroness (a radiant Cécile de France) to the glamorous beau monde of Paris.
But Lucien has entered a society far more dangerous than he realised, and the venomous denizens of the salons (brought to life by a superb ensemble including Jeanne Balibar, Gérard Depardieu and Xavier Dolan) conspire to keep him out of their ranks. Lucien…
Tickets
Lost Illusions
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