Lisa – Potential Films

The Origin Of Evil | in New Zealand Cinemas

May 10, 2023

Dir. by Sebastien Manier | 2022 | France |125 Mins | CTC

Official Selection at:
The French Film Festival Aotearoa NZ 2023 May 25- July 5

In this wickedly funny French thriller, shady relatives scheme for family fortunes through a succession of ingenious twists.
Stéphane’s volatile lover is halfway through her prison sentence while she’s stuck working in a fish cannery. One day Stéphane boldly decides to reach out to her wealthy, estranged father. Stéphane discovers the dysfunctional family around him to be a vipers’ nest, […]

The Blue Caftan in New Zealand

February 27, 2023

By Lisa

Dir. by Maryam Touzani | 2022 | France, Morocco, Belgium, Denmark | 122 Mins | CTC

WINNER – Fipresci Prize – Un Certain Regard. Cannes Film Festival 2022
WINNER – Grand Jury Prize, Golden Star – Marrakech International Film Festival 2022
WINNER – Grand Jury Prize- International Feature – NewFest LGBTQ+ Film Festival NYC
WINNER – Audience Award – Athens International Film Festival 2022
WINNER – Greek Film Critics Association Award – Athens International Film Festival 2022
WINNER – Best Director | Silver Hugo – […]

The Origin Of Evil

December 7, 2022

By Lisa

Dir. by Sebastien Manier | 2022 | France |125 Mins | CTC

In Cinemas Australia-wide 2023.

Official Selection at:
The French Film Festival Aotearoa NZ 2023
The Alliance Francaise French Film Festival 2023

The Blue Caftan AU

November 4, 2022

By Lisa

Dir. by Maryam Touzani | 2022 | France, Morocco, Belgium, Denmark | 122 Mins | M

The first Australian reviews are in..
Glam Adelaide | 5 Star Review
Christos Tsiolkas | The Saturday Paper Review

Splice Here: A Projected Odyssey

November 2, 2022

By Lisa

A “cineramic” roller coaster ride through the rise, fall and rebirth of projected film.

Dir. by Robert Murphy | 2022 | Australia | 119 Mins | E for Exempt

Direct from the Melbourne International Film Festival and DOC New York City.

MEET THE FILMMAKER Q&A’s IN SELECT CINEMAS:

Sun Theatre, Yarraville, Friday Nov 25, 2022. Movie at 630pm.
New Farm, Brisbane, Sunday Nov 27 2022. Movie at 4pm.

The Ritz, Randwick, Tuesday Nov 29 2022. […]

The Night Of The 12th in NZ Cinemas

August 23, 2022

By Lisa

Directed by Dominik Moll | 2022 | France | 115 Mins | M

In the corridors of the criminal police, […]

The Night Of The 12th | Cinemas

August 15, 2022

By Lisa

THE NIGHT OF THE 12TH.. More Details HERE

IN CINEMAS OCTOBER 13

VICTORIA
** Cinema Nova, […]

The Leopard

July 15, 2022

By Lisa

Dir. Luchino Visconti | Italy 2005 | PG

The Leopard (Italian: Il Gattopardo) is a 1963 epic historical drama film directed and co-written by Luchino Visconti, based on Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa‘s 1958 novel of the same title.[5] Burt Lancaster stars as Don Fabrizio Corbera, an aging Sicilian nobleman caught up in the sociopolitical turmoil of the Risorgimento (Italian unification) during the mid-19th century, […]

Furia | Norwegian | 8 Episode Thriller

July 12, 2022

By Lisa

FURIA is a tense, eight-episode thriller with a dark, twist-laden plot, set against the backdrop of two of Europe’s most distinguished capital cities – Oslo and Berlin – as well as rural western Norway.

An edge-of-your-seat mix of undercover thriller and prescient political drama, the story centres around RAGNA, an undercover operative who has penetrated a far-right extremist terror cell, hellbent on carrying out an atrocity the likes of which Europe has never seen before.
Elsewhere, former special ops officer ASGEIR is living the quiet life in western Norway after escaping from the Russian underworld and assuming a new identity. […]

The Night Of The 12th | 7 x Time Cesar Award Winner | On DVD and Digital

June 23, 2022

By Lisa

Directed by Dominik Moll | 2022 | France | 115 Mins | M

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