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15 Aug 2019

INTERVIEW: Josephine Mackerras on her New Film “Alice” – Coming to a Cinema Near You #ListenNow

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INTERVIEW: Josephine Mackerras on her New Film “Alice” – Coming to a Cinema Near You #ListenNow

Film David & Alex talk to Australian Director/Producer Josephine Mackerras on her new film “Alice” which showed to sold-out sessions at the Melbourne International Film Festival and is coming to a cinema near you in the near future.

Here’s the film’s description from the MIFF website so watch out for at a cinema near you in the coming months:

Josephine Mackerras’s SXSW Grand Jury Prize winner is an intimate story of one woman’s empowerment that also destigmatises common ideas about sex work.

Alice (Emilie Piponnier) has what seems like a perfect life in Paris with her husband, François and their young son, Jules. When François disappears, Alice discovers he’s been leading a double life, leaving her in a precarious financial position. Increasingly desperate as the bills pile up and she’s threatened with eviction, Alice finds freedom and purpose as a high-class escort.

Australian filmmaker Mackerras has crafted an understated and unadorned debut, striking for its lack of melodrama and unsensationalised representation of sex work. Piponnier rivets as a woman who has always done what’s expected of her suddenly pushed to do what she never imagined she would have to. Alice’s transformation is revolutionary – defying patriarchy’s suffocating constraints and raising complex ethical questions without ever moralising on them.