Oh those French know how to celebrate! Not only have they assembled their most intoxicating movie line-up to date to mark the 21st anniversary of the wildly popular Alliance Francaise French Film Festival, but they've also lured renowned French filmmaker, Jean-Pierre Jeunet to our shores to open the 2010 Festival with his acclaimed new film MICMACS (Micmacs a tire-larigot) which will screen courtesy of Hopscotch Films.

Highlights of the 2010 Festival include:
Welcome
Serge Gainsbourg
I'm Glad My Mother is Alive
Coco Chanel and Igor Stravinsky
Queen to Play
Anything for Her
Bellamy
The First Day of the Rest of your Life
Father of my Children

SYDNEY: 2 - 21 March - Palace Academy, Palace Verona & Palace Norton Street
MELBOURNE: 4 - 21 March - Palace Como, Palace Balwyn, Palace Westgarth and Kino Cinemas
BRISBANE: 17 - 31 March - Palace Centro & Palace Barracks Cinema
PERTH: 17 - 31 March - Cinema Paradiso & Luna on SX
CANBERRA: 18 - 31 March - Greater Union Manuka (Opening Closing Nights at National Film & Sound Archives)
ADELAIDE: 18 - 31 March - Palace Nova Eastend