GenQ - For the not so straight individual

Puccini For Beginners

Thursday, 28 June @ ACMI Cinema’s, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Federation Square, Flinders Street at 7pm. Tickets are: $15/12 with MQFF members $11.

Tickets can be purchased at the ACMI Boxoffice or by telephoning: 8663 2583 or on the door.

With fabulous door prizes on offer, don’t miss the only big screen showing in Melbourne of this hit film.

Allegra loves Samantha. But she won't say so. Grace loves Philip but he won't marry her. Samantha leaves Allegra. Allegra meets Philip. Philip leaves Grace. Allegra falls for Philip. Allegra meets Grace. Grace falls for Allegra. Allegra falls for Grace. Allegra sees Philip and Grace simultaneously and has no idea they're exes. A story about chance encounters, psychoanalytic excuses and one woman's struggle to make a commitment, "Puccini for Beginners" is a sophisticated screwball sex comedy.

From the writer/director of "The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love�. A love triangle of operatic proportion.

Nominated, Grand Jury Prize, 2006 Sundance Film Festival

FOUR MINUTES (MA) German with English subtitles

Wednesday 20 June @ 7 pm @ The Classic Cinema
9 Gordon Street, Elsternwick. Phone: 03 9524 7900

This rapturous, inspirational film concerns two women, their lives shaped by violent pasts, who find comfort and respect in each other's company. Tough young Jenny (Hannah Herzsprung, in a meteoric debut performance) is serving time in a women's prison in Luckau, Germany. She meets her match in the elderly Traude (Monica Bleibtreu), a Prussian woman who has been teaching piano to the inmates since World War II. But Traude's near-obsessive attachment to Jenny goes far beyond musical professionalism, becoming something much more fervid and intense. Everything hangs in the balance when the dramatic details of both Jenny and Traude's pasts threaten to be revealed.

2006 Shanghai International Film Festival Golden Goblet – Best Film (Chris Kraus)