Mildura Film Society

The Last Journey
RATING:PG Mild themes and coarse language
RUNTIME: 95mins
DIRECTOR: Filip Hammar, Fredrik Wikingsson
ACTORS: Filip Hammar, Fredrik Wikingsson, Lars Hammar, Tiina Hammar
THE LAST JOURNEY follows Filip Hammar’s father Lars, who is retiring after 40 years as a beloved French teacher in Koping, Sweden.
But instead of a “third age” with travel, wine, and experiences together with his wife, he becomes passive and tired.
Filip and his best friend Fredrik, take Lars to his beloved France and let him revisit the places he loves.
By making the same road trip that the family used to make when Filip was a child and staging some of his father’s fondest memories (often with hilarious consequences), they hope to rekindle Lars’ spark.
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Grand Tour
RATING:M Mature themes and drug use
RUNTIME: 129mins
DIRECTOR: Miguel Gomes
ACTORS: Crista Alfaiate, Gonçalo Waddington
Edward, civil servant, flees fiancee Molly on their wedding day in Rangoon, 1917. His travels replace panic with melancholy. Molly, set on marriage, amused by his escape, trails him across Asia.
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The Phoenician Scheme
RATING: M Injury detail
RUNTIME: 101mins
DIRECTOR: Wes Anderson
ACTORS: Jeffrey Wright, Michael Cera, Mathieu Amalric, Bryan Cranston, Riz Ahmed, Hope Davis, Mia Threapleton, Richard Ayoade, Benedict Cumberbatch, Tom Hanks, Scarlett Johansson, Benicio Del Toro, Rupert Friend

THE PHOENICIAN SCHEME. The story of a family and a family business. Starring: Benicio del Toro as Zsa-zsa Korda, one of the richest men in Europe; Mia Threapleton as Sister Liesl, his daughter/a nun; Michael Cera as Bjorn Lund, their tutor. With: Tom Hanks, Bryan Cranston, Riz Ahmed, Mathieu Amalric, Jeffrey Wright, Scarlett Johansson, Richard Ayoade, Rupert Friend, Hope Davis, and Benedict Cumberbatch.
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There’s Still Tomorrow
RATING:M Mature themes, violence and coarse language
RUNTIME: 118mins
DIRECTOR: Paola Cortellesi
ACTORS: Valerio Mastandrea, Paola Cortellesi, Vinicio Marchioni

The highest grossing film of 2023 in Italy, There’s Still Tomorrow is a vibrant, moving drama starring Paola Cortellesi in her directorial debut.

Delia (Cortellesi) lives in a working-class community in Rome in the late 1940s – a city divided between the positive thrust of liberation and the miseries of the war that has just ended – with her domineering husband, Ivano (Valerio Mastandrea), their three children, and father-in-law.

She rises above the daily challenges of family life; has a best friend with whom to share moments of levity, and dreams for her daughter Marcella to one day have a better life. Delia accepts her fate – the good with the bad – until one day a mysterious letter arrives.

Shot in resplendent black and white, in the style of post-World War II Italian neorealist filmmakers, There’s Still Tomorrow is a critically acclaimed, bittersweet and empowering tale tinged with a comedic irony.
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Lies We Tell
RATING:MA Strong suicide scenes and sexual violence
RUNTIME: 88mins
DIRECTOR: Lisa Mulcahy
ACTORS: David Wilmot, Chris Walley, Mark Doherty, Holly Sturton, Agnes O’Casey, Grainne Keenan, Eleanor Methven, Elaine O’Dwyer, John Olohan, Kieran Roche

The daunting, rambling estate of Knowl is no home for a young woman on her own, and certainly not for Maud (Agnes O’Casey, The Miracle Club) – just 18 years old. Freshly burdened with the sudden death of her father, and granted inheritance to his entire estate when she comes of age at 21, Maud is alone, unschooled in the ways of society, and vulnerable. The wolves begin to circle…

In a bewildering turn of events, Uncle Silas (David Wilmot, The Guard) is revealed as Maud’s guardian in her father’s will. A pariah of ‘society’, he is infamous for being a callous and uncaring man.

Silas is furious at being denied his ‘rightful’ inheritance, and in a world designed to constrain women, deploys society’s most underhand weapons to bend Maud to his will.

As family secrets are uncovered, Maud discovers and reclaims her fledgling independence.

Lies We Tell is a chilling and atmospheric gothic tour de force, featuring a star making turn from Agnes O’Casey.
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Ghost Trail
RATING:M Mature themes, injury detail and violence
RUNTIME: 107mins
DIRECTOR: Jonathan Miller
ACTORS: Tawfeek Barhom, Adam Bessa, Julia Franz Richter, Hala Rajab

Hamid joins a secret group tracking Syrian regime leaders on the run. His mission takes him to France, pursuing his former torturer for a fateful confrontation.
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