Le Mulled Wine Cinema 2023

Overview

Think watching a movie under the stars is a summer activity? Think again. Braving the elements to catch a film in winter comes with its own rewards: snuggling up next to your nearest and dearest, enjoying the brisk night air and sipping hot mulled wine, for example.

As part of the broader Bastille Festival, the Tallowoladah Lawn outside of the MCA will become a pop-up openair movie theatre again in 2023. That means settling in for a flick with a view not just of the screen, but vantages out over the Opera House and Sydney Harbour as well.

Screening 11 sessions over four days between Thursday, July 13–Sunday, July 16 for $19 a ticket, Le Mulled Wine Cinema lets attendees get cosy in 100 chairs (with blankets, of course), and offers up a glass of mulled wine and some raclette to complete the outdoor film-watching experience.

As for what you'll be watching, if the movies aren't French, they have ties to France in some way. Think: Wes Anderson's The French Dispatch, Sofia Coppola's Marie Antoinette, the Audrey Tatou-starring Amelie, Pixar's Ratatouille, Marion Cotillard's Oscar-winning performance in La Vie En Rose and La Famille Bélier, which was remade in the US as Academy Award Best Picture recipient CODA.