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50% off Melbourne International Film Festival tickets*
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The Melbourne International Film Festival (MIFF) returns this August for its 71st edition. The jam-packed 18 day in-cinema program runs August 3-20 and Age subscribers can enjoy 50% off tickets.*
MIFF’s unique festival experience is designed to provide places and spaces to connect with fellow film lovers, hear from inspiring local and international guests and showcase films that you won’t see anywhere else.
MIFF takes place in a range of venues spanning from metro Melbourne to regional Victoria, including Melbourne’s iconic Comedy Theatre.Credit: Melbourne International Film Festival
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The festival features an expansive selection of global cinema, engrossing documentaries, world premieres, exclusive releases, insightful filmmaker conversations and hotly anticipated releases from the likes of Sundance, Berlinale and Toronto film festivals.
Highlights from this year’s festival include:
At 36, Gracie caused a worldwide furore and landed herself behind bars after her predatory sexual relationship with a 13-year-old boy was made public. Some 20 years later, with Gracie now married to him with children of their own, the complexities resurface when actor Elizabeth arrives in their hometown of Savannah, Georgia, ahead of playing her in an upcoming biopic. But Elizabeth’s stripping of her subject’s layers triggers a crossing of boundaries – from every which way.
Julianne Moore and Natalie Portman team up in Todd Haynes’s perfectly camp melodrama that dredges up a sexual scandal, which screened in competition at Cannes.Credit: Melbourne International Film Festival
The Korean concept of ‘inyeon’ holds multitudes, suggesting that two souls colliding is a twist of joyous fate, perhaps predestined, but is one that can also leave a heart bound in inescapable doubt when their paths diverge.
What if the lover who never was is ‘the one’? This swooning romance follows a Korean woman whose heart is torn by the road not taken.Credit: Melbourne International Film Festival
Squaring the Circle (The Story of Hipgnosis)
Travel back to the golden era of 1970s rock ‘n’ roll and ask, “What makes a great album cover?” Corbijn’s music roots are put to exceptional use here as he explores the world of Hipgnosis, whose work graced the LPs and the gatefolds of Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, Peter Gabriel and so many more.
Music video auteur, revered photographer and Control (MIFF 2007) director Anton Corbijn takes history for a spin as he demystifies the vinyl record artwork of the masters.Credit: Melbourne International Film Festival
Making his second venture into English-language cinema after The Human Voice (MIFF 2021), Almodóvar (Pain and Glory, MIFF 2019) returns with a vibrant film that stars Pascal (The Last of Us; The Mandalorian) as Silva, a rancher who rides out to Bitter Creek to meet the town sheriff, Jake (Hawke, First Reformed, MIFF 2018; the Before trilogy).
Ethan Hawke and Pedro Pascal play reunited lovers in Pedro Almodóvar’s sensual queer western, direct from Cannes.Credit: Melbourne International Film Festival
Shopkeeper Etero is approaching middle age with her autonomy and her virginity intact. After a near-death experience while picking blackberries in the hills outside her rural village, she begins a passionate love affair with a local man and is faced with a familiar conundrum: whether to maintain her hard-won freedom or succumb to the possibility of imperfect coupledom.
A charming character study about love, liberty and the pursuit of forbidden fruit, set in the Georgian countryside.Credit: Melbourne International Film Festival
There are just 200 half priced tickets available so get your tickets now. Tickets are limited to one per subscriber.
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*The 50% discount offer is available to The Age digital subscribers and print subscribers with 2+ days of home delivery. The discount can only be applied to full price, standard in-cinema sessions and allocation is capped at 200 tickets. Offer ends August 20, 2023 or when ticket allocation is exhausted. Offer must be redeemed online and cannot be redeemed for cash.