Sacreblue! x SBS
The April Selection
Every month, Sacreblue! highlights some francophone films from the SBS catalogue.
These movies will be available for the whole month for free on SBS On Demand!
Here is our April selection, enjoy these uplifting and heart warming tales as the winter cold sets in.
My Donkey, My Lover & I / Antoinette in the Cévennes (2020)
Teacher Antoinette (Laure Calamy) is looking forward to a holiday with her lover. To her horror, however, he cancels on her and takes his family to the mountains. When she follows him, she ends up on a trekking tour with a donkey.
Laure Calamy received the 2021 César award for best actrice for her role as Antoinette. The film was also received 7 other César nominations including for best film and best cinematography.
Watch it on SBS on Demand here.
Cleo from 5 to 7 / Cléo de 5 à 7 (1962)
Cléo from 5 to 7 is part of Sight & Sound magazine’s Critic’s Poll of the greatest movies of all time in 2002 and 2022. It its also the third-highest ranking for a film directed by a woman, after Claire Denis’s Beau Travail at number 2 and Jeanne Dielman, 23, quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles by Chantal Akerman at number 1.
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 92%. The website’s critical consensus reads “Cléo from 5 to 7 represents a beautifully filmed highlight of the French New Wave that encapsulates the appeal of the era while departing from its narrative conventions.”
Watch it on SBS on Demand here.
Skies of Lebanon / Sous le Ciel d’Alice (2020)
In the 1950s, a young woman leaves the Swiss mountains for the shores of Beirut. She falls in love with a quirky astrophysicist, and the pair live in bliss until the civil war threatens their peaceful existence.
Watch it on SBS on Demand here.
