Melbourne Film Festival opens today

July 21, 2011 4:49

The 60th Melbourne International Film Festival opens tonight and runs until 7 August.

Belgian/French film The Fairy will open the festival with a black tie event at Great Union Cinemas (131 Russell St, Melbourne).

MIFF Artistic Director, Michelle Carey described The Fairy as: “That rare case of a festival-friendly film that is honourably humanist and inventive yet unapologetically accessible and comical. That it is also whimsical and a little nostalgic makes it the perfect opening for the 60th MIFF.”

An afterparty at Melbourne Town Hall (90-120 Swanston St) will run until 1am.

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Colin Delaney

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