2nd October 2002 Director: Pawel Pawlikowski UK 2000 73 min A topical film for the start of the season. Tanya, a young single mother, leaves her native Russia, with her young son Artion, to meet her British fiancé at London’s Stansted Airport. When he does not appear, Tanya, frightened she will be returned to Russia,… Continue reading Last Resort
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Traffic
8 Jan 2003 Director: Steven Soderbergh USA 2000 147 mins Intertwining vignettes frame this tale of America’s escalating War on Drugs. Robert Wakefield has been appointed the nation’s new drug tsar only to discover his daughter Caroline is now an addict. Meanwhile drug enforcement officers protect a witness against a jailed drug kingpin. In Mexico,… Continue reading Traffic
Amores Perros – Love’s a Bitch
5 Feb 2003 Mexico 2000 147 min Director Alejandro: Gonzalez Inarritu Amores Perros is a bold and intensely emotional look at the lives that collide in a Mexico City car crash. The film is structured in three overlapping stories. Octavio is a young aimless loser who has a crush on Susana who is married to… Continue reading Amores Perros – Love’s a Bitch