Parlez-moi de la Pluie

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

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

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

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

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

Dean Spanley

16 Dec 2009 New Zealand, UK 2008 100 min Director: Toa Fraser In Edwardian England of a 1904, Henslowe Fisk and his father Horatio attend a lecture on reincarnation given by the Swami Nala Prash. There they meet Dean Spanley from the colonies. Henslowe, after coincidental encounters with Spanley, begins a series of dinners with… Continue reading Dean Spanley

Les Plages d’Agnés

The Beaches of Agnés 19 Oct 2011 Director: Agnés Varda France 2008 110 min It would be easy – but misleading – to describe this simply as an autobiography of the French artist and film-maker. It is more like a tour through her memory, represented in diverse and fascinating ways. Varda and her late husband… Continue reading Les Plages d’Agnés

Pranzo di ferragosto

Mid-August lunch 02 Nov 2011 Italy 2008 75 min Director: Gianni Di Gregorio Not as lightweight or insignificant a story as it might appear, this comedy/drama takes a loving look at the lives of four elderly ladies and the man, Gianni, (Gianni DiGregorio, who also directs) who finds himself taking care of them all almost… Continue reading Pranzo di ferragosto