Once
Members’ Rating: 69% On Grafton Street, in Dublin, a careworn busker falls for the naïve charm of a sparky Czech immigrant. With simple narrative, easy non-acting and haunting songs, the film has a rare innocence and a fresh approach to...
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Quiet Chaos
Members’ Rating: 80% A serene drama of the moving tale of a widower forced to re-evaluate his whole life following his wife’s death and re-invent his relationship with his daughter. The film is a bitter-sweet parable and Nanni Moretti’s stunning...
Bright Star
Members’ Rating: 75% An exquisite piece of film-making – Jane Campion’s best since The Piano in 1998. Set in the 19th-century, this film tells of a doomed romance between poet John Keats and his neighbour Fanny Brawn. A finely-crafted, well-performed...
The Grocer’s Son
Members’ Rating: 82% Antoine, the rudderless son of a rural grocer, is forced to return home to run the family business when his father becomes ill. Antoine soon rediscovers his love of the countryside. France, 2007, Éric Guirado. Drama, 1hr...
Lemon Tree
Members’ Rating: 90% – our joint favourite film of the season, along with Conversations With My Gardener A lemon grove belonging to a Palestinian widow becomes a security risk when the Israeli Minister of Defence moves nearby. Inspired by a...
Genova
Members’ Rating: 55% Following the funeral of a young mother tragically killed in a road accident, her husband (played by Colin Firth) and children move to Italy: a new country, a new city, a fresh start. It is a moving...
In The City Of Sylvia
Members’ Rating: 40% A man returns to Strasbourg to search for Sylvia, a woman he had become acquainted with six years earlier. A lovely film paying homage to painting, love and women – and watching people passing by. Spain/France, 2007,...
Wendy And Lucy
Members’ Rating: 55% When driving to Alaska seeking work, Wendy (played by Michelle Williams) breaks down in a small Oregon town. She is stranded with her dog Lucy and no money. This treatment of severe economic difficulties is absolutely riveting....
Broken Embraces
Members’ Rating: 81% Pedro Almodóvar’s latest is a sensuous film within a film. The story centres on a four-way tale of dangerous love, which moves between the present and 1994. Penélope Cruz rises to the occasion combining elegance with exuberance....
Cherry Blossoms
Members’ Rating: 63% Partially shot in Japan, this is a moving drama which pays homage to Yasujirō Ozu’s Tokyo Story. An elderly Bavarian couple set out to visit their three neglectful children. It is a celebration of beauty, new beginnings...
