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The Noosa Film Society was established in 1979 to encourage interest in film as an art form. At first movies were screened at the golf club to a small group of film enthusiasts once a month. Several years later, screenings were moved to the Noosa Arts Centre where they continued to play until the cinema in Noosa Junction was built.
Film Society screenings are scheduled on average twice a month on Wednesdays and are restricted to members only.
Membership renewals take place each year in August/September at which time existing members are invited to re-join. Vacancies are filled from a waiting list compiled from applications received throughout the year.
Membership to Noosa Film Society - Waiting List
Due to the number of people on the current waiting list, there is a delay of approximately two years before being invited to join the Noosa Film Society. Invitations to join are sent out by post, in August each year.
While waiting, we suggest you take advantage of some of the discounts offered by the Noosa Five Cinemas - such as Seniors Card or by joining the Directors Club. If you are keen to see any of our films, the Noosa Five Cinema usually screens our films for the general public for a week after one of our screenings.
For more information visit their website www.noosafivecinemas.com.au. |
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The Women on the 6th Floor
(IFrance) 106 mins. Rated PG
Comedy/Satire - Subtitled
Wednesday 1st February
10.00am, 2.30, 5.00 & 7.15 pm
The Women on the 6th Floor is a French film, set in Paris in 1962. The women in question are Spanish maids, working for middle-class French families, when Franco is still in power in Spain and de Galle still rules France. The traditional values of both cultures remain strong, even among the Spanish refugees coming to France. The maids are devoutly Catholic, rather more so than the French people they serve. They are less educated, earthier, and more "communal". They are Spanish people as the French generally perceive them.
Maria Gonzalez (Natalia Verbeke) arrives on a bus to find a job. She will stay with her aunt, Concepcion (the great Carmen Maura), the mother figure of the group. The other maids make her welcome. These are women without men, although most are married. They support their families in Spain, saving for an eventual return.
On the floor below, Jean-Louis Joubert (Fabrice Luchini) is master of the house in which he grew up. He is a stockbroker with a pedantic desire for order and good manners. His wife Suzanne (Sandrine Kiberlain) regards a game of bridge with her similarly indolent friends as exhausting.
The script, co-written by Jerome Tonnere is driven by class conflict. The director, Philippe Le Guay, grew up in a middle class family with a Spanish maid and a stock-broking father. The film is not strictly autobiographical but the sense of humour, laced with bile, comes with a close knowledge of his class, and their sense of superiority. In fact the film is conceived more as a satire on the French than a collection of clichés about the Spanish.
The Women on the 6th Floor has been a great success in France, where its satire would be felt more closely than it is here. Fabrice Luchini, looking younger than his 60 years, gives a superb comic performance.
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