Cleo from 5 to 7 - International Film Festival - SkyCity Theatre

NZ International Film Festival - Auckland 9-26 July 2009
http://nzff.co.nz...

Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009
Meetup time: 5.30pm
Meetup place: I'll wait in the Casino's Rebo Cafe & Bar http://www.skycityauc... between 5.30-6.15pm or txt me 0272750083
Film start time: 6.30pm

Cleo from 5 to 7 (Cléo de 5 à 7) – 6.30 pm Mon 20 Jul
In French with English subtitles
Director: Agnès Varda
Year: 1962
Running time: 90 mins
France/Italy
Screenplay: Agnès Varda
B&W and Colour/PG cert

Payment options
I plan to see at least 9 festival films and will be pre-paying all of them (Option 1). As usual, the seats are allocated and there is the potential to miss out if not booked/paid for in advance. EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT: Book before July 9 and pay $14.00 for adult tickets to A-coded sessions. (normal price $15.00). Ticketing service fees will apply. Check out the festival site for the cheap parking special deal.

I will be setting the RSVPs for Friday 3 July with the following payment options: Option 1: RSVP & Pre-purchase all films (and get a discount). Meet me outside the main entrance of the Civic theatre on Saturday, 4 July and we can purchase tickets to all the films from the theatre’s ticket counters – this way we can be seated together! I thought some time after 1.00pm but I’m flexible so long as everyone can agree on the time.
Option 2: RSVP & make your own payment arrangements. There are a number of payment options set out in the NZFF guide e.g. via internet. You’re more than welcome to take this option – chances are that we won’t be seated together but you can still meet me at the specified meet up time and place prior to the start of the film.
Option 3: Don’t RSVP and show up on the day. Can’t decide or don’t want to plan ahead? No problem! Meet me at the specified meet up time and place prior to the start of the film and see if there are still tickets available – you’ll probably be seated elsewhere in the theatre though.

Please let me know which option you are going for when you RSVP, thanks.

SYNOPSIS
We call her the grandmother of the French New Wave now but here's the film that put young Agnès Varda on the map – or, more specifically, the streets of 60s Paris. Godard and Anna Karina make cameo appearances in this still bracing protofeminist classic. “I don't know how widely the new 35mm print of Cléo from 5 to 7 will play... but, God, I hope it comes to your town too, because it sure is wonderful. Out of slight material – a spoiled actress and pop star, Cléo (Corinne Marchand), wanders the streets of Paris for two hours, distracted and anxious, while awaiting the results of a medical test – Varda creates a tapestry of city life, and a consideration of mortality, that's joyful, simple, daring and profound... With its lighthearted experimentation and its magical transformation of a shallow, self-absorbed girl into a romantic heroine, Cléo is, for me, above all other films of the French New Wave.” — Andrew O'Hehir, salon.com