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MONSIEUR MAYONNAISE opens NZ theatrical run

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29/11/2016

MONSIEUR MAYONNAISE opens NZ theatrical run after sell out sessions at JIFF

Kicked out of university. Makes a career as a people smuggler. Is this the sort of person we want to come to our country? You bet it is! – Richard Cotter, Sydney Arts Guide.

The eponymous MONSIEUR MAYONNAISE, aka Georges Mora, the story’s hero and French Resistance fighter who arrives in Australia just after WWII, with his wife, the artist Myrka Mora. They settle in Melbourne and become household names as artists, restaurateurs and eventually, cultural icons.

Following sell-out screenings at the travelling Jewish Film Festival (JIFF) MONSIEUR MAYONNAISE will start its NZ commercial cinema run exclusive to the Rialto Cinemas on December 8 with other cinemas to follow. Check listings from December 8.

MONSIEUR MAYONNAISE is an artist’s epic adventure into his family’s secret past.

Australian artist and film-maker, Philippe Mora, investigates his father’s clandestine role in the French Résistance in WWII and his mother’s miraculous escape en route to Auschwitz.

Philippe, a Hollywood cult-horror movie director and pop-artist, adopts a Film Noirpersona to tell his family’s story. He also packs his paints and easel, as he embarks on a journey to create an audacious comic book about his parents, their survival and the Holocaust.

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From LA to Berlin, Paris to Melbourne, MONSIEUR MAYONNAISE is a richly layered, road movie starring artists, real life heroes, Nazi villains … and baguettes with lashings of tasty French mayonnaise!

-ENDS-

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/179858097

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