Overview
If you've been out of the loop so far, Concrete Playground and the Sydney Film Festival have this year teamed up to give some very lucky readers double passes to a selection of some of the most exciting films screening this year. Last week we gave away the first prize pack, and this week we bring you the next, with tickets available for Alps, Once Upon A Time In Anatolia, Today, For Ellen and Love Lasts Three Years.
If you're keen on being in the running, first make sure you are subscribed to Concrete Playground, then email your name and film preference to hello@concreteplayground.com.au
Love Lasts Three Years - 6.45pm on June 12
After his wife leaves him for a more successful man, Marronier writes a bestseller denouncing love. Then he meets Alice, who changes his mind about the whole 'love' thing, and he must spend all of his time trying to prove his book wrong.
Alps - 12.20pm on June 13
From the maker of Dogtooth and the newest film from the Greek Weird Wave comes the story of a super secret club whose members go into the homes of the recently bereaved, impersonating their deceased loved ones, in what's one part therapy, one part theatre of the absurd and one part prostitution.
Today - 6.15pm on June 13
Today is a Senegalese magic realist film following Satché, who wakes up inexplicably aware that today is the day he's going to die. As he spends the day wandering his town, the big question is why he ever returned to Senegal from America, where he might have had a future.
Once Upon A Time In Anatolia - 6pm on June 14
Winner of the Grand Prix at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival, following a group of men going out in search of the corpse of a murdered man, where every marginal conversation about ethics, cheese and death brings them one step closer to uncovering the killer.
For Ellen - 8.45pm on June 15
Paul Dano plays a struggling musician with dreams of grandeur, who in finally agreeing to divorce his estranged wife realises he is forfeiting custody rights to his six -year-old daughter, Ellen, who he hasn't seen much of to begin with. The film follows his attempt to connect with his daughter before time runs out.