Whanganui Film Society is back with a 2014 French film from first-time director Lucie Borleteau - Fidelio: Alice's Journey (Fidelio, l'odysseé d'Alice).
Described as an insightful study of a woman at work in an almost exclusively male milieu, the film is In French, Romanian, English, Tagalog and Norwegian, with English subtitles.
Ariane Labed stars as a nautical engineer who runs across an old flame in her new posting aboard a cargo ship.
"A powerful first feature from a French filmmaker to watch, this is about a young woman toughing it out below decks on an ocean voyage, wrote Trevor Johnston of Time Out.
"It's unusual to see a 30-year-old woman as an engineer on a cargo ship, but Alice (Ariane Labed) is a tough pro, holding her own among the otherwise all-male crew in this slice-of-life French drama.
"Alice's sweet Norwegian boyfriend is patiently waiting for her in Marseille, but when the captain of her latest posting turns out to be an old flame, staying true just got a lot more challenging.
"Lucie Borleteau's remarkably assured first feature intrigues with its doc-style observation of the daily routines, sudden stresses and eccentric rituals of life on an ocean-going workhorse.
"Yet it never loses sight of the aching, sensual undertow prompting its protagonist's sometimes impulsive behaviour."
Fidelio: Alice's Journey screens at screens at the Davis Theatre, Whanganui Regional Museum, Watt St, at 7pm on Monday, July 23.