….apparently, very specific funeral arrangements. We hope you all enjoyed “Anatomy Of A Fall” as our first film of 2025. Next, on 22nd January, “Driving Mum” serves up a helping of dark Nordic humour. An odyssey across the stunning, if slightly bleak, Icelandic landscape, the comedy is as black as the volcanic sand beaches. The… Continue reading Iceland, Land of Fire and Ice and…….
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Happy New Year
We hope you enjoyed your festive period. Happy New Year to everyone. We look forward to welcoming you back when our season continues on Wednesday 8th January 2025 with “Anatomy Of A Fall“. Sandra Hüller gives an emotionally charged performance as a woman grappling with grief and suspicion in this intense courtroom drama. When Sandra’s… Continue reading Happy New Year
Happy Christmas
Thank you for all your support this year. We hope you all have a happy Christmas and are looking forward to the films we have left this season. The season resumes on 8th January 2025 with “Anatomy of a Fall“, winner of the Palmer d’Or, Cannes 2023. Happy New Year
Christmas Is Here
We all hope you can join us for our last film of 2024 and our Christmas get together. Your choice for this event was “We’re No Angels,” a heartwarming Christmas comedy. Three Devil’s Island escapees become unlikely angels, bringing laughter and goodwill to a struggling family. Bogart and Ustinov shine in this festive classic, perfect… Continue reading Christmas Is Here
Stolen Faith
This Wednesday, 4th December, brings our season to “Kidnapped“. A powerful and unsettling film based on the true story of Edgardo Mortara, a young Jewish boy abducted from his family in 19th century Italy. Director Marco Bellocchio delivers a moving and thought-provoking exploration of faith, power, and family.
Historical Drama
Next in our season on 4th December is “Kidnapped“, a gripping drama that tells the true story of a young Jewish boy abducted from his family in 1858 Italy. Director Marco Bellocchio masterfully portrays the emotional turmoil and political intrigue surrounding this shocking event.
Film Season 2012-2013
The Skin I Live In
La piel que habito 7 Nov 2012 Director: Pedro Almodovar Spain 2011 117 min An occasionally disturbing – but nonetheless stunning – film, The Skin I Live In revisits many themes familiar from earlier Almodovar works: identity, revenge, and overwhelmingly powerful emotions. Running throughout is the idea of dark secrets and revelation. Plastic surgeon Robert… Continue reading The Skin I Live In
A Separation
24 Oct 2012 Director: Asghar Farhadi Iran 2011 123 min Director and screenwriter Farhadi has created a superbly crafted film about moral and ethical contradictions that face all of us irrespective of our surroundings. The tension is palpable throughout as the densely plotted story unfolds.Simin (Leila Hatami) wants to leave Iran with husband Nader (Peyman… Continue reading A Separation
The Debt
10 Oct 2012 Director: John Madden USA 2010 113 min This gripping thriller uses a clever time-shifting technique to keep the audience wondering right until the end just how the events of the past might come to revisit themselves upon the present. The story focuses on a Mossad mission in 1966, when three agents tracked… Continue reading The Debt