Sat, 12 Oct
|Dome Cinema and Bar
Iris and the Men
A new comedy about reignited desire in the modern age.
Time & Location
12 Oct 2024, 7:00 pm – 11:00 pm
Dome Cinema and Bar, 38 Childers Road, Gisborne 4010, New Zealand
About the event
After the smash-hit international success of Antoinette In The Cévennes, writer/director Caroline Vignal and the fabulous Laure Calamy reunite for a new comedy about reignited desire in the modern age, a playful, joyous and conversation-starting delight.
“They’re not”. This is how Iris (Calamy) answers her doctor when she is asked how things are going with her husband (Vincent Elbaz). The words slip from her mouth like a brutal realisation: how long has it been since they last made love? Yet everything else is great: her partner loves her, they have two happy daughters, she runs a successful medical practice, lives in a beautiful apartment and has the best friends one could hope for... But soon Iris will be turning 50. It is a stranger who whispers the seed of an idea: “Take a lover.” So she dares open Pandora’s box, and hesitantly registers herself on a dating app. Immediately, men…