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
Category: Social Commentary
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
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
In the House (15) 2012, France 1hr 45 mins. (subtitles) A sixteen-year old boy insinuates himself into the house of a fellow student and writes about it in essays for his teacher unleashing an unstoppable series of events. “Dark, tense, and wryly funny, In the House is brilliantly directed by François Ozon and features fine…Continue readingIn the House
A “brilliant exploration of violence and corruption in contemporary China” (Jon Frosch, The Atlantic), A TOUCH OF SIN was inspired by four shocking (and true) events that forced the world’s fastest growing economy into a period of self-examination. Written and directed by master filmmaker Jia Zhangke (The World, Still Life), “one of the best and…Continue readingA Touch of Sin
The best explanation of why I think you should come and see this film is to quote Peter Bradshaw’s review of it from the Guardian in full: ‘It isn’t simply that Patricio Guzmán’s Chilean documentary Nostalgia for the Light is moving: it has a tragic grandeur that really is very remarkable. It is deeply intelligent,…Continue readingNostalgia for the Light
This year’s season kicks off on Friday, 25th Jan with I’ve Loved You So Long Quoting my colleague, Tadg: “This film nearly made it onto our programme for last year. I can’t remember why we decided not to include it but over the year we have been watching how it has done with other film…Continue readingI’ve Loved You So Long
… mother struggles to love her strange child, despite the increasingly vicious things he says and does as he grows up. But Kevin is just getting …Continue readingWe need to talk about Kevin
Tonight’s showing is of the Sci-Fi hit, District-9. Be there or be a large gloopy green mess of alien. Continue readingDistrict 9