Image: The stately State Theatre is an enviable opening night venue. Source: SFF.
As opening night films go for a major film festival, an all-star dramedy set amid the pristine locale of the Palm Beach peninsula on the New South Wales coast is probably as good a choice as you could make. Whether the team at the Sydney Film Festival like it or not, they are not Cannes or Venice and so they have some leeway with fun choices for opening night, away from the international glare that comes when the French choose disastrous doozies like Grace of Monaco or Hollywood flim-flam like The Da Vinci Code to open for their guests.
