Tabu
Members’ Rating: 49% “A restless retired woman teams up with her deceased neighbour’s maid to seek out a man who has a secret connection to her past life as a farm owner at the foothill of Mount Tabu in Africa.”...
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Beautiful Lies
Members’ Rating: 69% In an update of Jane Austen’s Emma, Emelia (played by Audrey Tautou) can’t help interfering with pother people’s lives. An anonymous letter leads to a slew of misunderstandings in this light-hearted comedy. France, 2010, Pierre Salvadori. Comedy/Romance,...
A Separation
Members’ Rating: 69% Captures the messiness of a dissolving relationship in present day Iran, with searing intensity – fascinating stuff. Won an Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film. Iran, 2011, Asghar Farhadi. Drama, 2hrs 3mins (PG)
Le Havre
Members’ Rating: 67% Aki Kaurismӓki turns his affectionate and whimsical eye on the impoverished but generous folk of Le Havre, as they try to prevent a young African refugee from deportation. A lovable film – sweet, sad and uplifting in...
The Well-Digger’s Daughter
Members’ Rating: 85% Set deep in Provence, a lovely moving film of love across the class divide, of rude-minded yokels, dastardly shopkeepers and a devoted daughter in love with a randy air force pilot. France, 2011, Daniel Auteuil. Drama/Romance, 1hr...
In A Better World
Members’ Rating: 90% – our favoutite film of the season Anton, a doctor at a Sudanese refugee camp, is isolated from his family in Denmark. This takes its toll on his son who is being bullied at school. Exploring justice...
The Kid With A Bike
Members’ Rating: 77% Big-hearted, engrossing story of Cyril, an 11-year-old motherless boy, left by his father in a state youth farm. In an act of kindness, a hairdresser fosters him and helps look for his father. Winner of the Grand...
La Grande Illusion
Members’ Rating: 78% – a classic feature An anti-war film concerning three French officers held by the Germans in WW1. Relevant as ever in addressing common values and decency as well as the rigidity of classes and the need to...
The Princess Of Montpensier
Members’ Rating: 64% (Original title: La Princesse de Montpensier) France, 1562. This swashbuckling romance is set against the savage catholic/protestant wars. Bertrand Tavernier’s vibrant adaptation of a 16th-Century novel addresses the issues of class, religion and honour with verve and...
Goodbye First Love
Members’ Rating: 51% The unromantic pain and euphoria of love are revived in this outstanding film, as things happen in just the way that life happens. It captures when the shortest separation feels like an eternity and a misunderstanding a...
