Get your friends and picnic gear ready, the Perth Festival 2023 Film season starts on November 21, 2022. Let the lazy summer nights of fascinating stories under star filled skies begin. I can feel myself relaxing already.
This year we have 19 fabulous films to choose from. As usual I have a few tips.
- Tickets. Don’t regret not getting your tickets earlier. They sell out fast so if you think you want to go, get a ticket early. Seriously, this is not a sales pitch I don’t work for the Festival, it’s a genuine heads up.
- Friends. Make sure you take the right friends. Yes I did say that. These are not your average films and definitely not the type you take your most chatty friend to, unless you like having leftover picnic food thrown in your general direction.
- Food. Yes you can take a picnic basket but the Festival also provides some fantastic food options.
- Toilet breaks. Make sure you leave enough time to go to the bathroom before the movies start. Once the lights are dimmed it can be tricky. Besides you don’t want to miss the crucial bit in the film.
- Support Australian film. The program features three Australian movies Blueback, You Can Go Now and The Giants. Make sure you put these on your list.
- Random treat. Pick a random film, one you have no idea about and probably wouldn’t usually see. You never know which film is going to give you the message you need.
- Five film tips. A couple of films that look interesting. I haven’t seem them yet but I have them on my list.
- Lunana: A Yak In The Classroom. A young Bhutan teacher who dreams of living in Australia ends up in the world’s most remote school, where he learns about what matters most in life.
- Corsage. From Austria this is said to be a witty period drama exploring a woman’s worth in 19th Century Europe. When women were constrained by their clothing as well as society’s expectations.
- Triangle Of Sadness. When a celebrity couple joins a luxury cruise helmed by an unhinged captain (Woody Harrelson), what appears Instagrammable ends in hilarious catastrophy.
- Everybody Loves Jeanne. A combination of film and hand-drawn animated hairy troll-like creatures, that burst out of her brain to comment on her life.
- Broker. Starring Parasite’s Song Kang-Ho I’m already in. The film is about an unlikely family unit on the run with an abandoned baby.
For more information go to Perth Festival.
