NFSA Restores: The Cars That Ate Paris – 50th Anniversary Screening M

Name: NFSA Restores: The Cars That Ate Paris – 50th Anniversary Screening
Start: 2024-10-11T08:00:00
End: 2024-10-11T08:00:00
Location: Arc Cinema

Still from The Cars That Ate Paris, 1974

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11 October

7:00pm

Arc Cinema

$16/$12

Dir: Peter Weir, M, Australia, 1974, 88mins, DCP,

Mild-mannered Arthur (Terry Camilleri) wakes up in a hospital in the country town of Paris after running off the road in a car accident that killed his brother. The mayor (John Meillon) takes Arthur under his wing, but Arthur senses that things are not right in Paris, from the youths who rule the streets at night in souped-up cars to the hospital full of accident victims. And then Arthur discovers he is not allowed to leave…

An Australian New Wave classic, The Cars That Ate Paris made a splash at Cannes and the Chicago International Film Festival when it was first released, helping to establish Australian cinema and director Peter Weir on the global stage. The NFSA digital restoration premiered at the 2024 Sydney Film Festival.

‘The tone is beautifully sustained throughout, hovering just on the right side of conviction, with superbly understated comic performances from Camilleri and Meillon’ – Time Out

This title has been digitally restored through NFSA Restores.

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