The largest celebration of French cinema outside of France, the 37th edition of the Alliance Française French Film Festival tours Australia until 22 April! Palace Films is delighted to be premiering 10 titles in the programme, including Cannes Official Selections THE RICHEST WOMAN IN THE WORLD, THE GREAT ARCH, LEAVE ONE DAY and ENZO, San Sebastian winner SIX DAYS IN SPRING and Venice Film Festival standout THE STRANGER. Advance bookings highly recommended.

Writer/director Thierry Klifa on his irresistible dark comedy THE RICHEST WOMAN IN THE WORLD: "What fascinated me from the start was the Shakespearean quality of the story. There is at once tragedy and farce, the two blend together. I wasn’t going to make anybody cry for the extra-rich, so we might as well laugh at them – especially since most of the characters are often mean and cruel, and are often very spirited. Their wit is funny, and so is their cruelty. But we also laugh at their ridiculousness, their excess."

Writer/director François Ozon on his gripping and elegant new adaptation of Albert Camus' landmark novella ​​THE STRANGER, premiering across Australia at this month's AF French Film Festival: "What compelled me wasn’t to make a film from the perspective of the 1940s, but make it with today’s perspective, with the distance we have from this period of French Algeria, and of the colonization, and contextualizing the book a little in the era in which it was written..."