Let’s Talk About The Rain 17 Mar 2010 Director: Agnés Jaoui France 2008 110 min This is a comedy about middle-class French life. Agathe returns to Provence after the death of her mother to help her sister with the sale of the maternal home. Agathe, feminist and best selling writer, moves in with her sister’s… Continue reading Parlez-moi de la Pluie
Category: Film Season 2009-2010
Summer
31 Mar 2010 Director: Kenneth Glenaan UK, Germany 2008 88 min Shaun and Daz are inseparable kids who spend the summer bunking off from school, racing bikes and going down to the river with Katy, Shaun’s first love. Shaun comes up against the education system in a battle he will lose and, branded a violent… Continue reading Summer
The Kite Runner
23 Sep 2009 Director: Marc Forster USA 2007 128 min It is a glorious afternoon in 1970s’ Kabul and the young Amir has just won a kite-fighting tournament. A fearful act of betrayal is about to tear apart his friendship with Hassan. Twenty years later, Amir is a successful writer living in America. He is… Continue reading The Kite Runner
Il Y A Longtemps Que Je T’Aime
I’ve Loved You So Long 7 Oct 2009 Director: Philippe Claudel France, Germany 2008 117 min Juliette (Kristin Scott Thomas) has just been released after a 15 year prison sentence for the murder of her 6 year old son. As she struggles to adjust to her freedom she comes to live with her sister Léa,… Continue reading Il Y A Longtemps Que Je T’Aime
Wolke Neun
Cloud Nine 6 Jan 2010 Director: Andreas Dresen Germany 2008 99 min After 30 years of marriage, Inge, in her 60s, embarks on a passionate affair with 76 year-old Karl. She is now torn between the husband she loves dearly and the man who ignites a spark of life in her.Inge feels her youth re-awakened… Continue reading Wolke Neun
Entre Les Murs
The Class 17 Feb 2010 Director: Laurent Cantet France 2008 128 min This film is based on the autobiographical novel of François Begaudeau. It follows a year in the life of François Marin who teaches at a racially mixed school in inner city Paris. Marin starts the year with a determination and passion to give… Continue reading Entre Les Murs
Il Divo
18 Nov 2009 Italy, France 2008 110 min Director: Paolo Sorrentino Paolo Sorrentino, a leading light in the Italian new wave of directors, gives us a bird’s eye view of the controversial post-war figure of Giulio Andreotti. Leader of the centrist Christian Democracy Party, Andreotti became Prime Minister of Italy seven times and remains a… Continue reading Il Divo
Katyń
2 Dec 2009 Director: Andrzej Wajda Poland 2007 122 min Director Andrzej Wajda takes a unique dramatic examination on the tragic story of Katyn. In the spring of 1943 the advancing German army uncovered 4,400 bodies in the Katyn Forest near Smolensk. The majority of the dead were Polish officers and soldiers executed by Stalin’s… Continue reading Katyń
In Prison My Whole Life
20 Jan 2010 UK, USA 2007 90 min Director: Marc Evans William Francome was born on the 9th of December 1981 in London during a snow storm. At almost exactly the same time a Police officer was shot dead in Philadelphia. A prominent political activist and journalist was arrested at the same time. This man,… Continue reading In Prison My Whole Life
Les Plages d’Agnès
The Beaches Of Agnès 3 Feb 2010 Director: Agnés Varda France 2008 110 min Agnés Varda, an early member of the French New Wave of directors, takes a personal and inventive autobiographical journey through her life. Stories from her childhood in Brussels, her teenage years in occupied Paris, her life in 60s’ Los Angeles and… Continue reading Les Plages d’Agnès