The Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) once again takes up a new work by ground-breaking French director Francois Ozon with a season of The Refuge (2009) opening 2 December, 2010.

Mousse (Isabelle Carre) and Louis (Melvil Poupaud) are young, beautiful, rich and in love. Mousse wakes from a drug-induced coma to discover her lover has died of an overdose and she is pregnant. She retreats to a secluded seaside villa where she sees through her pregnancy while battling addiction and loss. Months later she is joined by her deceased lover's brother Paul (Louis-Ronan Choisy) and through a series of deceptively casual incidents, a deeply charged relationship develops.