‘In terms of family drama, has any film been more moving than Yasujiro Ozu’s Tokyo Story? Time and again, Ozu has made films about family, and the shifting structure we refer to as “time and again”. Family is less a fixed entity than a kind of weather system that keeps coming back. So children…Continue readingTokyo Story
Category: Foreign Language
A powerful portrait of female empowerment set in a remote Turkish village. Early summer in a village in Northern Turkey. Five free-spirited teenaged sisters splash about on the beach with their male classmates. Though their games are merely innocent fun, a neighbour passes by and reports what she considers to be illicit behaviour to the…Continue readingMustang
Winner of the Palme d’Or at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival, the new film from acclaimed director Jacques Audiard (A Prophet) is a gripping, human tale of survival. On the losing side of a civil war in Sri Lanka, a Tamil soldier (Antonythasan Jesuthasan) poses as the husband and father of two other refugees in…Continue readingDheepan
Our first film of 2017 is the Icelandic film ‘Rams’. In a remote valley two estranged brothers are forced to come together – after 40 years of feuding – to save their cherished rams. “A darkly comedic drama, by turns hilarious and heartbreaking” The Guardian “Switching from dour humour to humanist drama without seeming contrived,…Continue readingRams
From Chile, a story about water through which flows a stream of historical recollections, and poetic reflections rendered with breathtaking clarity. You can watch the trailer here. THE PEARL BUTTON (15) 2016, Chile, 1hr 22mins (Subtitles) Doors and Bar 7.30pm Film begins at 8.00pmContinue readingThe Pearl Button
Not far from the ancient Malian city of Timbuktu, now ruled by the religious fundamentalists, proud cattle herder Kidane lives peacefully in the dunes with his wife Satima, his daughter Toya, and Issan their twelve-year-old shepherd. In town, the people suffer, powerless, under the regime of terror imposed by the Jihadists determined to control their…Continue readingTimbuktu
Six tales of power and revenge from Argentina that explore the extremes of human behaviour on the blurred line between comedy and tragedy. You can watch the trailer here. Wild Tales (15) 2014, Argentina, 2hrs 2mins (Subtitles) Friday 25th March. Doors and bar 7.30. Films begins at 8.00. Continue readingWild Tales
Our next film is the Oscar nominated and BAFTA winning THEEB… In the Ottoman province of Hijaz during World War I, a young Bedouin boy experiences a greatly hastened coming-of-age as he embarks on a perilous desert journey to guide a British officer to his secret destination. You can watch the trailer here Annual Cheese…Continue readingTHEEB
A boy who is believed to bring bad luck leads his family (and a couple of ragged misfits) through Laos to find a new home. After a calamity-filled journey through a land scarred by war, the boy builds a giant rocket to prove he’s not cursed and to enter the most lucrative but dangerous competition…Continue readingThe Rocket
“A small gem, tender and bleak, funny and sad, superbly photographed in luminous monochrome”. Peter Bradshaw, Film Critic, The Guardian Pawel Pawlikowski, the director of Last Resort and My Summer of Love returns to his homeland for this moving and intimate drama about a young novitiate nun in 1960s Poland who, on the verge of taking…Continue readingIda