02 Apr 2014 Director: Haifaa al Mansour Saudi Arabia 2012 98 min Wadjda is a 10-year-old girl living in a suburb of Riyadh. She is fun-loving, entrepreneurial and always pushing the boundaries of what she can get away with. After a fight with her friend Abdullah, a neighbourhood boy she shouldn’t be playing with, Wadjda… Continue reading Wadjda
Category: Film Season 2013-2014
Dialogue avec mon jardinier
Conversations With My Gardener 25 Sept 2013 Director: Jean Becker France 2007 109 min In this beautifully crafted celebration of the pleasures and value of friendship, Daniel Auteuil plays a successful and affable painter who decides to leave Paris and return to his rural hometown in the throes of a mid-life crisis. At first he… Continue reading Dialogue avec mon jardinier
A Late Quartet
09 Oct 2013 Director: Yaron Zilberman USA 2012 105 min With its suitably resonant title, this film is a subtle and intelligent observation of the internal dynamics of the New York based Fugue String Quartet. When Peter Mitchell (Christopher Walken), the founder and cellist, receives a life changing diagnosis, the group’s future suddenly hangs in… Continue reading A Late Quartet
Barbara
23 Oct 2013 Germany 2012 105 min Director: Christian Petzold Barbara is a doctor in the East Germany of 1980. As a punishment for political insubordination and an application to emigrate to the west, she has been removed from a prestigious position in Berlin and banished to a hospital in the provinces where she plans… Continue reading Barbara
Amour
06 Nov 2013 Director: Michael Haneke France 2012 127 min With his unflinching script, Michael Haneke directs this honest, heart-wrenching depiction of deep love and responsibility. With exceptionally powerful performances from Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva, the film is an intimate account of an elderly couple facing their greatest challenge in the twilight years of… Continue reading Amour
L’llusionniste
The Illusionist 18 Dec 2013 Director: Sylvain Chomet UK, France 2010 80 min Monsieur Tatischeff is an artisan illusionist trying to eke out a living at the end of the dying vaudeville era. While performing at a pub in the Scottish Highlands, he meets a simple young woman who is enthralled by his magic. She… Continue reading L’llusionniste
Dans la maison
In The House 08 Jan 2014 Director: François Ozon France 2012 105 min In Ozon’s teasing comedy, Germain teaches literature. He despises most of his fellow teachers for their conventional thinking and despairs of his pupils for their uniformity and lack of imagination. Germain discovers a gifted pupil, the 16-year-old Claude, who turns in an… Continue reading Dans la maison
Kapringen
A Hijacking 22 Jan 2014 Director: Tobias Lindholm Denmark 2012 103 min The cargo ship MV Rozen is in dangerous waters and heading for harbour when it is hijacked by Somali pirates. Among the men on board is the ship’s cook Mikkel (Pilou Asbeek) who, along with the rest of the seamen, is taken hostage… Continue reading Kapringen
Holy Motors
05 Feb 2014 Director: Leos Carax France 2012 115 min A bizarre surrealist odyssey whose magic ingredient is comedy, Holy Motors is preposterous and filled with secrets. Apparently inspired by the director’s fascination with the after hours life of stretch limousines, the film is centred around Monsieur Oscar who, over the course of a single… Continue reading Holy Motors
Lovesong
19 Feb 2014 Directors: Scott Graham and Steven Hoggett UK 2012 90 min Digital Theatre presents Frantic Assembly‘s critically acclaimed production of Abi Morgan’s Lovesong. This is a departure from our normal screenings and a rare opportunity to see the play, Lovesong, on the big screen.The production is a visual and emotional feast following a… Continue reading Lovesong