tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33997428917420136902024-03-13T17:35:01.144-07:00Rockabill Film Society SkerriesDavid Bosschaerthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13786738766478890804noreply@blogger.comBlogger20125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3399742891742013690.post-69837410133009676772024-01-04T11:13:00.000-08:002024-01-04T11:31:31.174-08:00Spring Season 2024<h2 style="text-align: left;">Spring 2024 Schedule</h2><p>Click the links for details:</p><p></p><ul><li>Thu 18 Jan <a href="https://www.tickettailor.com/events/rockabillfilmsociety/1094237" target="_blank">Ballywalter + Once Home</a></li><li>Thu 25 Jan <a href="https://www.tickettailor.com/events/rockabillfilmsociety/1094238" target="_blank">Driving Madeleine</a></li><li>Thu 8 Feb <a href="https://www.tickettailor.com/events/rockabillfilmsociety/1094239" target="_blank">The Last Rider</a></li><li>Thu 22 Feb <a href="https://www.tickettailor.com/events/rockabillfilmsociety/1094240" target="_blank">Past Lives</a></li><li>Thu 7 Mar <a href="https://www.tickettailor.com/events/rockabillfilmsociety/1094241" target="_blank">The Innocent</a></li><li>Thu 21 Mar <a href="https://www.tickettailor.com/events/rockabillfilmsociety/1094242" target="_blank">The Eternal Daughter</a></li></ul>To attend a screening, reserve a seat via the links above (free for members).<br /><p>Buy a season membership ticket here: <a href="https://www.tickettailor.com/events/rockabillfilmsociety/" target="_blank">Membership Tickets</a></p><p><br /></p><p>All films start at 8.30 pm in the Skerries Sailing Club.</p>David Bosschaerthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13786738766478890804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3399742891742013690.post-41723710756369374852023-09-04T08:05:00.005-07:002023-10-02T06:36:57.902-07:00Autumn Season 2023<p> </p><h2>Autumn 2023 Schedule</h2><p>Click the links for details:</p><p></p><ul><li>Thu 5 Oct <a href="https://www.tickettailor.com/events/rockabillfilmsociety/989164?" target="_blank">Lakelands</a></li><li>Thu 12 Oct <a href="https://www.tickettailor.com/events/rockabillfilmsociety/996360?" target="_blank">Lola</a></li><li>Thu 26 Oct <a href="https://www.tickettailor.com/events/rockabillfilmsociety/996361?" target="_blank">Rise</a></li><li>Thu 9 Nov <a href="https://www.tickettailor.com/events/rockabillfilmsociety/996362?" target="_blank">Living</a></li><li>Thu 23 Nov <a href="https://www.tickettailor.com/events/rockabillfilmsociety/996363?" target="_blank">Charcoal</a></li><li>Thu 7 Dec <a href="https://www.tickettailor.com/events/rockabillfilmsociety/996364?" target="_blank">See How They Run</a></li></ul>To attend a screening, reserve a seat via the links above (free for members).<br /><p>Buy a season membership ticket here: <a href="https://www.tickettailor.com/events/rockabillfilmsociety/" target="_blank">Membership Tickets</a></p><p><br /></p><p>All films start at 8.30 pm in the Skerries Sailing Club.</p>David Bosschaerthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13786738766478890804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3399742891742013690.post-4730854200768502522023-01-02T09:43:00.004-08:002023-02-19T08:06:06.125-08:00Spring Season 2023<h2 style="text-align: left;">Spring 2023 Schedule</h2><p>Click the links for details:</p><p></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Thu <a href="https://www.tickettailor.com/events/rockabillfilmsociety/820508/" target="_blank">12 Jan Both sides of the Blade</a></li><li>Thu <a href="https://www.tickettailor.com/events/rockabillfilmsociety/820512/" target="_blank">26 Jan The Forgiven</a></li><li>Thu <a href="https://www.tickettailor.com/events/rockabillfilmsociety/820513/" target="_blank">9 Feb Juniper</a></li><li>Thu <a href="https://www.tickettailor.com/events/rockabillfilmsociety/820514/" target="_blank">23 Feb Robust</a></li><li>Thu <a href="https://www.tickettailor.com/events/rockabillfilmsociety/820515/" target="_blank">9 Mar Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song</a></li><li>Thu <a href="https://www.tickettailor.com/events/rockabillfilmsociety/820516/" target="_blank">23 Mar Alcarràs</a></li></ul><p></p><p>To attend a screening, reserve a seat via the links above (free for members).</p><p>Buy a season membership ticket here: <a href="https://www.tickettailor.com/events/rockabillfilmsociety/820504/" target="_blank">Membership Tickets</a></p><p><br /></p><p>All films start at 8.30 pm in the Skerries Sailing Club.</p>David Bosschaerthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13786738766478890804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3399742891742013690.post-38900271018268158542022-09-25T06:33:00.007-07:002023-01-02T09:48:58.650-08:00Autumn Season 2022<p>Tickets and membership can be ordered online here: <a href="https://www.tickettailor.com/events/rockabillfilmsociety" target="_blank">https://www.tickettailor.com/events/rockabillfilmsociety</a></p><h2>Autumn 2022 Schedule</h2><p style="text-align: left;">Click the links for details:</p><div><div><ul style="text-align: left;"><li>Thu <a href="https://www.tickettailor.com/events/rockabillfilmsociety/740498/" target="_blank">13 Oct Licorice Pizza</a></li><li>Thu <a href="https://www.tickettailor.com/events/rockabillfilmsociety/726476/" target="_blank">27 Oct McEnroe</a></li><li>Thu <a href="https://www.tickettailor.com/events/rockabillfilmsociety/740499/" target="_blank">10 Nov Compartment No. 6</a></li><li>Thu <a href="https://www.tickettailor.com/events/rockabillfilmsociety/740497/" target="_blank">24 Nov Rósie & Frank</a></li></ul></div><div>To attend a screening, reserve a seat via the links above (free for members).</div><div>Buy a season membership ticket here: <a href="https://www.tickettailor.com/events/rockabillfilmsociety/726473/" target="_blank">Membership Tickets</a></div></div><div><br /></div><div>Note the change of screening day. Screenings are now on Thursdays.<br />All films start at 8.30 pm in the Skerries Sailing Club.</div>David Bosschaerthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13786738766478890804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3399742891742013690.post-69779068442711078372019-12-28T12:24:00.002-08:002022-09-27T08:56:52.935-07:00Spring Season 2020<b>Previous seasons:</b><div><b><br /></b>
<span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><b>Wednesday January 15th – A Faithful Man</b></i></span><br />
<i>L'Homme Fidèle</i><br />
Dir: Louis Garrel, 2018, France, 75 mins, Cert: CLUB<br />
Starring: Louis Garrel, Laetitia Casta, Lily-Rose Depp<br />
Language: French<br />
Trailer: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDaYckxMgpM">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UDaYckxMgpM</a><br />
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One morning Marianne, Abel’s girlfriend of three years, tells him that she is pregnant. Unfortunately for Abel, the father is his best friend Paul, who Marianne has been seeing behind Abel’s back and is now going to marry.<br />
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Several years later, Marianne unexpectedly reenters Abel’s life. Having never quite got over their breakup, Abel sees this as a sign to win Marianne back. But Paul’s younger sister Eve has been in love with Abel since she was a teenager. Now all grown up, she has designs of her own on Paul!<br />
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Actor Louis Garrel features both in front and behind the camera for this delightfully playful and truly French romantic comedy.<br />
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<i>Winner – Best Screenplay, San Sebastian International Film Festival 2018</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Wednesday January 29th – The Peanut Butter Falcon</i></b></span><br />
Directors: Tyler Nilson, Michael Schwartz , 2019, USA, 97 mins, Cert: 12A<br />
Starring: Shia LaBeouf, Dakota Johnson, Zack Gottsagen<br />
Trailer: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNl9RqjLCwc">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNl9RqjLCwc</a><br />
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Zak, a 22-year-old wrestling enthusiast with Down Syndrome, lives in a retirement home because the state has nowhere else for him. After numerous failed attempts, he finally breaks out and heads cross-country to find his favourite wrestler, The Salt Water Redneck.<br />
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Stowing away in the boat of a troubled outlaw named Tyler, Zak manages to convince Tyler to help him get to a wrestling school run by his hero. The two set off on an adventure through the stunning North Carolina Outer Banks. Along the way they hunt, fish, drink and share their secrets. But hot on their heels is nursing home volunteer Eleanor, sent to bring Zak home.<br />
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This modern-day Huckleberry Finn type drama is a pure, feel-good adventure.<br />
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<i>Winner - Audience Award, SXSW Film Festival 2019</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><b>Wednesday February 12th – Sorry We Missed You</b></i></span><br />
Dir: Ken Loach, 2019, UK, France, Belgium, 101 mins, Cert 15A<br />
Starring: Kris Hitchen, Debbie Honeywood, Rhys Stone<br />
Trailer: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysjwg-MnZao">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ysjwg-MnZao</a><br />
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Ricky and his wife Debbie are zero-hours workers - he is a delivery driver and she is a care assistant. They are hard-working, loving parents, but they have never recovered from the 2008 crash, which saw Ricky lose his permanent job, and their chances of owning a home of their own disappear.<br />
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Now renting, but still dreaming of their own place, Ricky sets his sights on a ‘franchise’ opportunity as a courier. In reality this means long hours, no job security and no benefits. So when teenage son Seb starts going off the rails, the pressures and mounting debts begin to tear the family apart.<br />
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Loach and Laverty reunite for a true and searing look at the ‘gig’ economy.<br />
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<i>Winner - Audience Award, San Sebastián International Film Festival 2019</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Wednesday February 26th – Pain & Glory</i></b></span><br />
<i>Dolor y Gloria</i><br />
Dir: Pedro Almodóvar, 2019, Spain, 113 mins, Cert: 16<br />
Starring: Penélope Cruz, Antonio Banderas, Asier Etxeandia<br />
Language: Spanish<br />
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Veteran director Salvador Mallo (Antonio Banderas) currently suffers many health issues, which he blames for the creative rut he finds himself in. As he tries to recover, he reflects on his life. Whilst recalling memories from the past, including those of his humble upbringing by his doting mother (Penélope Cruz), in the present he reconnects with past friends and lovers. Can this journey help him overcome his physical pain and rediscover his creativity?<br />
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Banderas and Cruz, with whom Almodóvar has worked extensively in the past, reunite with the award-winning director, to bring arguably his most personal film to date to the big screen.<br />
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<i>Winner – Best Actor, Cannes Film Festival 2019</i><br />
<i><br /></i><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Cancelled! Wednesday March 11th – Monos</i></b></span><br />
Dir: Alejandro Landes, 2019, Colombia, Argentina, Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, Uruguay, 102 mins, Cert: 15A<br />
Starring: Sofia Buenaventura, Moisés Arias, Julianne Nicholson<br />
Language: Spanish<br />
Trailer: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxtP1o88F6Y">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxtP1o88F6Y</a><br />
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Exiled on a remote mountainside in South America, the Monos are a group of teenage soldiers left to guard a single hostage: Doctora.<br />
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Who they are and where they come from is not known. They have their orders from the Organisation communicated by radio, and also sporadic visits from the Messenger, serving as a voice of authority and connection to the outside world. But when the accidental death of the camp’s cow causes the group’s leadership to be questioned, the internal dynamics shift and the few ties the Monos had to reality begin to dissolve.<br />
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Monos is a powerful, beautifully surreal film, which uses a pulsating soundtrack and visual style to provide an immersive and mesmerising experience for the viewer.<br />
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<i>Winner - World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award, Sundance Film Festival 2019</i><br />
<i>Winner - Best Film, San Sebastián International Film Festival 2019</i><br />
<i>Winner - Best Film, BFI London Film Festival 2019</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Cancelled! </i></b><b><i>Wednesday March 25th – The Wolf's Call</i></b></span><br />
<i>Le Chant Du Loup</i><br />
Dir: Antonin Baudry, 2019, France, 115 mins, Cert: CLUB<br />
Language: French<br />
Starring: Omar Sy, Mathieu Kassovitz, Francois Civil<br />
Trailer: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9Gz7Bg07u8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9Gz7Bg07u8</a><br />
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One of the biggest French films of the year in it's home country, The Wolf's Call is a gripping thriller set on a nuclear submarine.<br />
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A young man possesses an uncommon gift for identifying every sound he hears. He has made a profession out of it, as the “Golden Ear” aboard a French nuclear submarine. When his reputation for infallibility is damaged by a mistake that puts the lives of the whole crew in danger, his determination to win back his comrades’ trust takes them to the heart of an international crisis as it spirals out of control.</div>David Bosschaerthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13786738766478890804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3399742891742013690.post-39345316637573875772019-09-16T12:38:00.002-07:002019-09-16T12:46:36.847-07:00Autumn Season 2019All films start at 8.30 pm in the Skerries Sailing Club.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Wednesday 25 September – Arctic</i></b></span><br />
Dir: Joe Penna, 2018, Iceland, 98 mins Cert: CLUB<br />
Starring: Mads Mikkelsen, Maria Thelma Smáradóttir<br />
Language: English<br />
Trailer: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5aD9ppoQIo">www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5aD9ppoQIo</a><br />
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It doesn’t take long for Joe Penna’s <i>Arctic</i> to establish itself as one of the best movies ever made about a man stranded in the wilderness. In fact, there’s a small but crystalline moment in the first act (some 15 or 20 minutes in, maybe) when this hellishly cold portrait of human endurance claws ahead of the pack and never looks back.<br />
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From the very first scene, the busted fuselage has already been converted into a homey little shelter that could pass for a decent one-bedroom in Brooklyn. Overgård has had time to dig out a massive S.O.S. in the snow, and to fill a freezer with the bony fish he’s snagged from beneath the ice. He’s had time to stack a pile of ugly black stones into a small grave for someone whose identity we never learn — likely a co-pilot, but we’re left to assume. There’s no way of knowing if Overgård was clean- shaven before the crash, but he wears his beard well (the elegant slope of Mikkelsen’s face makes the icicles look like jewelry).<br />
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And then — as Overgård is trying to stab a trout in a snowstorm — he spots a rescue helicopter cutting its way towards him. It promptly crashes, the winds driving the chopper headfirst into the ground. Maybe there are some places where people just shouldn’t fly.<br />
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This is when Arctic starts to thaw into something unexpectedly rich and humane; one perfect reaction shot is all it takes for Penna’s debut feature to prove itself more lucid <i>127 Hours</i> and more dynamic than <i>All Is Lost</i> (admittedly a low bar to clear). You expect Overgård to sprint over the nearest ridge so he can get a clear view of the wreckage, but... he doesn’t. On the contrary, he just stands in place, as though his feet were stuck to the snow.<br />
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Cinematographer Tómas Örn Tómasson, always opting for a steadiness that belies the chaos of Overgård’s situation, trains his camera on Mikkelsen’s static face. It’s like he’s short-circuiting for a second. The disappointment in his eyes is obvious, but we also note the lack of disbelief — how surprising can a disaster really be after so many days spent waiting for death? Plus, Overgård is totally wiped out. Even a rugged and resourceful MacGyver type like him might not have the strength to save anyone. Besides, that was supposed to be their job!<br />
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Of course he eventually does the right thing, but that fleeting hesitation is enough to sell us on Overgård’s fragility. Penna’s script, co-written with Ryan Morrison, doesn’t need a flimsy backstory to explain why this guy wants to live, or what it might take to rekindle his fading hopes. Penna recognizes that certain scenarios are so complete that any kind of additional motivation tends to smell bad.<br />
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One of the two helicopter pilots is still alive (Maria Thelma Smáradóttir), if only just. She’s got an infected wound on her abdomen, but she also has a lighter and some noodles. That’s a great recipe for a hot meal. Suddenly, those mountains in the distance start too look a little closer. And so they set off to a distant point on the map, Overgård tobogganing his silent new friend across the Arctic like some kind of frozen Fitzcarraldo. They exit the crash site, pursued by a polar bear.<br />
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Initially written as a sci-fi adventure set on Mars (before everyone involved came to their senses), Arctic works because it’s so believable. The movie never cheats or takes shortcuts — in fact, Overgård and his living cargo are forced to take the long way round. Penna has packed the film with incident and excitement, even making room for a bear attack sequence that puts <i>The Revenant</i> to shame, but even the most Hollywood moments obey a certain logic.<br />
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More than that, Penna finds ways to infuse real drama into potentially mundane details. We always know where the characters are and what’s at stake with each step, so that watching Mikkelsen turn a sled into a makeshift shelter achieves the excitement of a major setpiece. The photo Overgård finds of the pilot with her husband and baby — at first a maudlin touch — comes to assume a genuine emotional heft. Some credit for that belongs to Joseph Trapanese’s low and stirring score, but the brunt of its power exists between Mikkelsen and the man he’s playing. Overgård needs someone to live for, even if he’s not the person who ultimately needs to live for them.<br />
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It’s broad stuff, and well-trod terrain for a movie that takes place in uncharted territory, but it cuts straight to the difference between endurance and survival. Movies like this are typically only exciting because the hero might die. <i>Arctic</i> is so compelling because Overgård might not.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Wednesday 9 October – </i></b></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Float Like a Butterfly</i></b></span><br />
Dir: Carmel Winters, 2018, Ireland, 101 min, Cert: 15A<br />
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We have the opportunity to screen 'Float Like a Butterfly' starring Hazel Doupe from Skerries and a past pupil of Skerries Community College!</div>
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Winner of the Audience Award at the Cork Film Festival November 2018.</div>
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15-year-old Frances lost her mother in a fight. The same fight which led to her father being locked up in jail for the last ten years. Frances has never forgiven the police sergeant who she feels is responsible for this. She’s got fighting in her blood, just like her idol Muhammad Ali. And like Ali, she wants to be the Greatest too. </div>
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When her father gets out of jail, Frances is starry-eyed. Together they can take on the world. But her father doesn't turn out to be the hero she remembers. Required to keep the peace due to the conditions of his parole, he's forced to endure humiliation from the police sergeant, much to Frances' dismay. And to make up for lost time, he is determined to make a man of his son and an obedient wife of his daughter. </div>
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Frances never wanted to clash with her beloved father, but when he gives her boxing gloves to a prospective husband to “keep her in line” she has to make a stand. Cast out by the world and her family alike, Frances must fight even for the right to fight. Some people say it doesn’t matter whether you win or lose. But for Frances losing is not an option. This is a fight she has been training for all her life. At stake is her own freedom, her mother's honour and her father's faith. She knows the only way she can end this war is to win it.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Wednesday 23 </i></b></span><b style="font-size: xx-large;"><i>October</i></b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i> – Sink or Swim</i></b></span><br />
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Dir: Gilles Lellouche, 2018, France, 122 mins, Cert: 15A</div>
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Starring: Mathieu Amalric, Guillaume Canet, Benoît Poelvoorde,Jean-Hugues Anglade, Virginie Efira<br />
Language: French<br />
Trailer: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t24K8KFiv7k">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t24K8KFiv7k</a></div>
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You wait ages for an all-male synchronised swimming comedy and then two come along at once. Gilles Lellouche dives in first with <i>Sink Or Swim (Le Grand Bain)</i>, a surefooted crowdpleaser with enough warmth and the committed talents of a stellar ensemble cast to fend off any sense of predictability. It should make commercial waves on its domestic release later this year and travel well.</div>
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The <i>Full Monty</i> appears to have been the inspiration for both Lellouche and the forthcoming British effort <i>Swimming With Men</i>. There is a similar sense of emasculated, middle-aged men tackling their demons by committing to the most unlikely of public acts. <i>Sink Or Swim</i> doesn’t cut quite so deeply but has a likeable charm and sneaks up on the viewer in its more reflective, emotional moments.</div>
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Mathieu Amalric’s Betrand is unemployed, depressed and sending his days playing Candy Crush when he spots a sign seeking new members for an all-male team of synchronised swimmers. Amateurs are welcome, which is just as well given that the rum bunch of current members are neither very synchronised nor especially professional.</div>
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Under the indulgent tutelage of coach Delphine (Virginie Efira), the team starts to train regularly and the sessions in the pool prove as valuable as the time spent bonding over drinks in the pub or relaxing in the sauna. Every one of them has a problem of some kind from businessman Marcus (Benoit Poelvoorde) teetering on the brink of bankruptcy, to glowering uptight Laurent (Guillaume Canet) and an aging rocker (Jean-Hugues Anglade) who still nurtures dreams of stardom after 17 albums and no hit records.</div>
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There is nothing too surprising about how <i>Sink Or Swim</i> unfolds as the men bicker, develop a sense of solidarity and regain self-respect from their involvement in the group and a reckless decision to compete in the World Championships. There are training montages, fights, foolishness and sentimental life lessons along the way.</div>
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<i>Sink Or Swim</i> works because of a screenplay with some genuinely funny moments and a jaunty, confident approach from Lellouche that displays his sure comic timing and faith in the performers. Jean-Hughes Anglade is rather touching as a gentle man still hoping to impress his daughter, Jonathan Zaccaï is a hoot as the slow-witted but endlessly kind-hearted Thibault and it is a delight to see Mathieu Amalric’s Bertrand slowly coming back to life and seizing his moment.</div>
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The music choices, including Olivia Newton-John’s Let’s Get Physical and the Vangelis Chariots of Fire theme, are all a little on the nose and the film feels overlong as it nudges the two hour mark. There are reservations, but this is still a well-made, feel good entertainment that will win the audience over long before the big finale in Norway.</div>
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<i>- Allan Hunter, Screen Daily</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Wednesday 6 November – The Favourite</i></b></span><br />
Dir: Yorgos Lanthimos, 2018, Ireland, UK, USA, 119 mins Cert:15A</div>
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Starring: Olivia Coleman, Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz<br />
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Just when we thought Olivia Colman couldn’t get any better, she steps up to movie- star lead status with an uproarious performance as Britain’s needy and emotionally wounded Queen Anne in this bizarre black comedy of the 18th-century court, a souped up and sweary quasi-Restoration romp full of intrigue and plotting – with wigs, clavichords and long corridors to storm down. The drama is loosely based on the true story of Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, competing with her cousin Abigail, Baroness Masham, for the monarch’s favours, and creating a horribly dysfunctional politico-sexual love triangle with mother issues. The two emotional duelists are played here by Rachel Weisz and Emma Stone, the latter with a very good Brit accent.</div>
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There is a cheerfully obscene original script from Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara, directed by the Greek auteur Yorgos Lanthimos, who brings to it the absurdism he’s already known for, along with something even more jagged and uninhibited. In fact, <i>The Favourite</i> may have corrected Lanthimos’s tendency towards arthouse torpor. It is a scabrous and often hilarious film, made loopier by the nightmarish visions and wide-angle distortions contrived by the cinematographer Robbie Ryan.</div>
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At first – I admit it – I thought these stylisations were going to be insufferable, and even had the unworthy thought that this script might work quite as well with a trad director, in a trad style. But no. Acclimatisation to the visual and verbal rhetoric doesn’t take long and the point is that Lanthimos’s provocations pump and energise the screenplay, which with a conventional director might have just reverted to simpering bonnets-and-ruffles period drama, for all the raucous language.</div>
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Olivia Colman’s queen is a really funny creation – perhaps funnier and more sympathetic than her <i>Queen Elizabeth II</i> is going to be for Netflix, but who knows how she will reinvent that role? Her Anne is like something between the QEI that Quentin Crisp created in Sally Potter’s Orlando and a weird blend of Nursey and QEI in <i>Blackadder</i>. But that doesn’t do justice to the sadness of her Queen Anne: someone who has been infantilised by a lifetime of emotional manipulation. She is transported everywhere by wheelchair or sedan chair but can walk just as well. She sometimes flies into something between an anxiety attack and a rage at music or the spectacle of people enjoying themselves because of a self-hating inability to participate in pleasure. There is a private tragedy in her life which means that her emotional energies have been displaced into her large menagerie of house rabbits and she shows a keen interest in racing ducks and lobsters. Again: in the hands of an actor who wasn’t funny this could have been awful, but Colman sells all of it.</div>
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Weisz plays her court favourite and intimate Lady Sarah, who deploys every sly sexual and emotional trick to keep the monarch co-dependent and keen on the raising of taxes for an ongoing French war that will glorify Lady Sarah’s warrior husband Marlborough (Mark Gatiss). This is to the horror of minister, Robert Harley (Nicholas Hoult). Then a gentlewoman and cousin of Sarah’s, fallen on hard times, arrives at the court as a servant: this is Abigail (Stone), whose knowledge of medicinal herbs helps the queen’s gout. Her majesty takes a shine to the pretty little thing. So does the predatory nobleman Lord Masham (Joe Alwyn). The contest between Abigail and Sarah is on like the 18th-century equivalent of Donkey Kong.</div>
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If there is a flaw in the film, it is probably that Colman will inevitably upstage Stone and Weisz, and put their very important face-off in the shade. That is a minor consideration. <i>The Favourite</i> is full of freaky zingers and deeply strange laugh-lines: I loved the idea of someone sleeping like a “shot badger”. (There’s quite a lot about badgers.) And <i>The Favourite</i> is a reminder that the idea of royalty as polite and picturesquely sentimental is something that came in with Queen Victoria: <i>The Favourite</i> is more punk than that. It’s a rousingly nasty, bleary, hungover punchup.</div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">Wednesday 20 November – Foxtrot</span></i></b><br />
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Dir: Samuel Maoz, 2017, Germany, France, Israel, Switzerland, 113 mins, Cert: 15A</div>
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Starring: Lior Ashkenazi, Sarah Adler, Yonatan Shiray, Karin Ugowski</div>
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This emotional knockout from Israel isn’t nominated for Best Foreign-Language Film at the 2018 Oscars – another strike to add to the tally of Academy cock-ups. From first shot to last, <i>Foxtrot</i> takes a piece out of you. Director Samuel Maoz (Lebanon) begins with a devastating moment of grief: Soldiers arrive at the home of a middle- aged couple to tell Dafna (Sarah Adler) and Michael Feldman (Lior Ashkenazi) that their son has been killed in the line of duty. As his mother is tranquilized, his father is told about funeral arrangements. The military ritual is tragically commonplace. But for Michael, the sudden desolation is impossible to process. After calling his Auschwitz- survivor mother (Karin Ugowski), he locks himself in the bathroom, his face ravaged with anguish, pouring scalding water on his hands. Ashkenzai, a superb actor, reaches a new career peak. You will be shaken.</div>
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In the film’s second section – there are three – Maoz switches focus to four Israeli soldiers on border patrol in the desert. Jonathan (Yonatan Shiray), the Feldmans’ son, is one of a group manning a security checkpoint. We watch the young soldiers sleep in a large shipping container and fight off boredom with talk, video games, even a little soft-shoe. Maoz and the gifted cinematographer Giora Bejach turn the desert into a dream-like landscape where a camel can walk through a security gate and Jonathan can grab a rifle and use it as a dance partner. The mood is broken when Palestinians attempt to cross and suffer humiliating interrogations. It does not end well.</div>
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In the final third, we’re back in the Feldman apartment, where a personal war is raging between Michael and Dafna. Moaz builds his film out of puzzle pieces that don’t easily fit together. But there’s no mistaking the writer-director’s anger at his country for sending soldiers to die for questionable politics. That anger has brought accusations against the movie’s supposed “anti-Israel narrative.” Is it that or more likely a humanist plea for change directed at any country that extends war and ignores its futility? You be the judge. <i>Foxtrot</i> makes demands on audiences and then richly rewards them. It’s a riveting, deeply resonant achievement.</div>
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<i>- Peter Travers, Rolling Stone</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Wednesday 4 December – Wild Rose</i></b></span><br />
Dir: Tom Harper, 2018, UK, 101 mins, Cert: 15A<br />
Starring: Jessie Buckley, Julie Walters, Sophie Okonedo<br />
Language: English<br />
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Great country songs are often made from the most basic musical elements — a few chords, a hummable melody and chorus, maybe a key change — but somehow those humble components can be worked into something transcendent with the alchemical addition of skillful playing, energetic showmanship, ace songwriting and sincerity.<br />
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Fittingly, the British comedy-drama <i>Wild Rose</i> pulls off the same kind of trick as a movie. It posits a classic setup — a young rebel (in this case a young Glaswegian woman fresh out of prison, played by the incandescent Jessie Buckley) with a raw streak of talent (singing country music) and then tests how badly she wants to succeed (will she leave her young children for a chance to go to Nashville?). Out of these familiar, predictable elements director Tom Harper and screenwriter Nicole Taylor have fashioned something entirely delightful, fresh as a Scottish summer evening. The film stays in "key," to extend the musical metaphor, with a narrational circle of fifths that creates certain emotional lows and highs and hits them accordingly, but even that mild predictability makes it more lovable, and catchy as a burr on a long-haired dog. Certain to win hearts in its home market and acquired by Neon at Toronto, this could represent a breakout, toe-tapping hit.<br />
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Sent to the big house for a year for throwing a bag of heroin over a fence at another prison, 23-year-old Rose-Lynn Harlan (Buckley) is reissued with her fringed white leather jacket and matching cowboy boots, and freed on parole, albeit with an anklet that enforces curfew every night. After a quick stop en route for some al fresco sex with her beau Elliot (James Harkness), Rose-Lynn arrives at her mother's house in Priesthill, a working-class area on Glasgow's south side that's certainly seldom used as film location.<br />
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Her mother Marion (Julie Walters, allowed a rare chance to show off her strong and considerable dramatic range), a bakery employee, has been looking after Rose- Lynn's two under-10 kids while she's been away. The children are suspicious and shy of the prodigal mother, who doesn't seem to know quite how to connect with them. In any case, Rose-Lynn is more worked up about getting back her old gig singing with a band at a local country music club, but with her abrasive interpersonal skills, the court-ordered ankle bracelet and her tendency to throw right hooks, nix that.<br />
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Marion suggests Lynn-Anne take over an arthritis-ridden friend's job as a daily housekeeper for Susannah (Sophie Okonedo), a cheery, bohemian English transplant who's married to a self-made Scotsman (Jamie Sives), has two sweet young children of her own, a house big enough that a housekeeper is required and plenty of time on her hands. After hearing Rose-Lynn singing while working (a charming dreamlike sequence where the backing band are stationed around the mansion's rooms while Rose-Lynn cleans), the children and Susannah become her newest, most passionate fans.<br />
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Putting a smart twist on what viewers, especially British ones, might expect when it comes to cross-class relations, Rose-Lynn and Susannah become genuine friends. Susannah has edges and a mild case of self-absorption, but she's a very rare example of a middle-class character in a British film dominated by working-class people who is not a villain, a snob or a stereotyped twit. Certainly, the fact that she's played by Okonedo enhances her likability, and the actor's mixed race (never remarked on once by the other characters) perhaps changes the complex algebra of class at play here. But as the film goes on, it becomes clear that it's about, among other things, non-sexual relationships between women. Rose-Lynn's occasional trysts with Elliot seem to mean almost nothing to her. It's her friendship with Susannah and tempestuous relationship with her mother that drive the plot forward.If you apply the Bechdel test, this is a film that passes with flying colors.<br />
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Nevertheless, above all else, thematically the story is about good old-fashioned self- discovery, a lost lamb finding herself, but once again the journey doesn't zig and zag exactly how you'd expect. She must find herself morally but also musically, and the two objectives are almost the same thing. While imbued with deep respect for country music and its history (the soundtrack, curated by composer-supervisor Jack Arnold, is a cracker), <i>Wild Rose</i> is tuned into the contradictions of a Glaswegian wanting to break into country, a music that's very much about place and cultural identity.<br />
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Thoughtful as these extra dimensions are, and enhancements to what is a refreshingly subtle work, most people won't absorb them consciously because they'll be too dazzled by Buckley making a blazing bid for big-time fame. She had already caught some attention with her mesmeric, nuanced performances in <i>Beast</i> last year, and on the recent BBC adaptation of <i>War and Peace</i> that Harper directed. Irish viewers will remember her as a girl from Kerry who came second in a TV singing contest. As a musician, she's terrific, but as an actress she's even better, with ceaselessly mobile features like a changeable Northern sky.<br />
<i>- Leslie Felperin, Hollywood Reporter.</i></div>
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David Bosschaerthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13786738766478890804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3399742891742013690.post-11300291940400396002018-12-21T08:07:00.002-08:002018-12-21T08:07:38.784-08:00Spring Season 2019All films start at 8.30 pm in the Skerries Sailing Club.<br />
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Dir: Isabel Coixet, 2017, UK, 113 mins, Cert: PG<br />
Starring: Emily Mortimer, Bill Nighy, Hunter Tremayne<br />
Language: English<br />
Trailer: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8-4E4XJyKg">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8-4E4XJyKg</a><br />
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Florence Green, a free-spirited widow, puts grief behind her and risks everything to open up a bookshop -- the first such shop in the sleepy seaside town of Hardborough, England. But this mini social revolution soon brings her fierce enemies: she invites the hostility of the town's less prosperous shopkeepers and also crosses Mrs. Gamart, Harborough's vengeful, embittered alpha female who is a wannabe doyenne of the local arts scene.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Wednesday 23 January – The Guilty</i></b></span><br />
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Dir: Gustav Möller, 2018, Denmark, 85 mins, Cert: Club<br />
Starring: Jakob Cedergren, Jessica Dinnage, Johan Olsen<br />
Language: Danish<br />
Trailer: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abaoKA6rn5k">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=abaoKA6rn5k</a><br />
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Demoted to deskwork and awaiting a disciplinary hearing, Agent Asger is working the night shift in an emergency call room. When he receives a call from a woman who has been abducted his resolve and arrogance are tested as it becomes a race against time to locate her. Taking place in real time and in a single location nothing is quite as it seems in this claustrophobic thriller. Using sound as the primary storytelling tool and with a powerful central performance from Jakob Cedergren, The Guilty is a visceral viewing experience.<br />
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Awards:<br />
<i>Winner</i> - World Cinema Audience Award, Sundance Film Festival 2018<br />
<i>Winner</i> – Audience Award, International Film Festival Rotterdam 2018<br />
<i>Winner</i> – Youth Jury Award, International Film Festival Rotterdam 2018<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Wednesday 6 February – 1945</i></b></span><br />
Dir: Ferenc Török, 2017, Hungary, 91 mins, Cert: Club<br />
Starring: Péter Rudolf, Bence Tasnádi, Tamás Szabó Kimmel, Dóra Sztarenki<br />
Language: Hungarian<br />
Trailer: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZbhnWBZWy0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZbhnWBZWy0</a><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span><br />
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When two black clad men arrive at a country railway station, a classic western set up appears to be unfolding. But it’s 1945 in Soviet-occupied Hungary in the immediate aftermath of World War II, and by their appearance the men are Orthodox Jews. As the two men make their way to town and word of their arrival spreads, there’s a growing panic amongst some of the more prominent townsfolk - especially town clerk, István, whose son’s wedding is later that day…<br />
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This difficult, transitional time in Hungary is a period rarely dealt with in cinema, and certainly not with as much clarity, economy and nuance as Ferenc Török displays here. A rare subject too, the grave and sobering issue of how the Gentile population of Nazi-occupied countries behaved towards Jewish neighbours, and how they have, or haven’t, variously, come to terms with a life based on guilt and betrayal. With its monochrome splendour and striking soundtrack, morally compromised townspeople and its tick-tock narrative towards an unknown conclusion, we’re reminded of Fred Zinnemann’s taut and masterful <i>High Noon</i>.<br />
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<i>“A fresh, intelligent cinematic approach to a difficult topic that takes on a transitional time in Hungarian history with subtlety and nuance.” – </i>Alissa Simon, Variety</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Wednesday 20 February – The Children Act</i></b></span><br />
Dir: Richard Eyre, 2017, UK/USA, 105 mins, Cert: 12a<br />
Starring: Emma Thompson, Stanley Tucci, Fionn Whitehead<br />
Language: English<br />
Trailer: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKQkUcJioxU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKQkUcJioxU</a><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span><br />
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"When a court determines any question with respect to the upbringing of a child, the child's welfare shall be the court's paramount consideration.” The Children Act, 1989<br />
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Based on the much-loved novel by Ian McEwan (Atonement) and brought to the big screen by director Richard Eyre (Notes on a Scandal, Iris), THE CHILDREN ACT is a compelling and powerful drama telling the story of Fiona Maye (Emma Thompson), an eminent high court judge presiding over ethically complex cases. As the demands of her job cause her marriage to Jack (Stanley Tucci) to reach tipping point, Fiona is asked to rule on the case of Adam (Fionn Whitehead), a brilliant young boy who is refusing a life-saving blood transfusion on religious grounds. With her private life in turmoil, Fiona finds herself drawn into the case, taking the unorthodox step of halting proceedings in order to visit Adam in hospital. As the two form a profound connection and powerful emotions come to light, Fiona’s judgement is put to the test with momentous consequences as she must ultimately decide whether Adam lives or dies.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Wednesday 6 March – C'est La Vie!</i></b></span><br />
<i>Le Sens de la fête</i><br />
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Dir: Olivier Nakache, Éric Toledano, 2017, France, 117 mins, Cert: Club<br />
Starring: Jean-Pierre Bacri, Gilles Lellouche, Jean-Paul Rouve, Eye Haidara<br />
Language: French<br />
Trailer: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjV8m84FcOs">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WjV8m84FcOs</a><span style="font-size: x-large;"></span><br />
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Max is a veteran wedding planner who is thinking about selling on his business. For now, however, there’s something more pressing to worry about: organising a lavish wedding in a 17th century chateau. It’s no small task: there’s dozens of people to manage, unreliable electricity, a last-minute musician change, and an increasingly demanding groom. Soon, things start going very wrong indeed. Can Max and his team sort everything out without the guests noticing?<br />
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The latest film from <i>Untouchable</i> directors Olivier Nakache and Éric Toledano is a gloriously manic French comedy. It hits the ground running and barely takes a breath as wedding disaster after disaster unfolds. With larger-than-life characters and laugh-out-loud set pieces, <i>C’est La Vie!</i> is a delight.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Wednesday 20 March – The Wife</i></b></span><br />
Dir: Björn Runge, 2017, UK, Sweden, 100 mins, Cert: 15a<br />
Starring: Glenn Close, Jonathan Pryce, Christian Slater, Max Irons, Harry Lloyd<br />
Language: English<br />
Trailer: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d81IM0loH7o">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d81IM0loH7o</a><br />
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There’s nothing more dangerous than a writer whose feelings have been hurt.” The speaker is Joan Castleman, the charming, enigmatically discreet and supportive wife of world-famous author and New York literary lion Joe Castleman. It is a fascinating and bravura performance from Glenn Close, in this hugely enjoyable dark comedy from director Björn Runge, adapted by Jane Anderson from the novel by Meg Wolitzer. Perhaps it’s Close’s career-best – unnervingly subtle, unreadably calm, simmering with self-control. Her Joan is a study in marital pain, deceit and the sexual politics of prestige. It’s a portrayal to put alongside Close’s appearances in Dangerous Liaisons and Fatal Attraction.<br />
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The Castlemans are on the plane to Sweden, ready for Joe to get the Nobel prize. Yet they are being pestered on the flight by a certain Nathaniel Bone, part stalker-fan, part parasitic hack who wants Joe to cooperate with a warts-and-all biography he is planning to write. Joe gives him the contemptuous brush-off but Joan cautiously advises a more diplomatic treatment. It is a key moment in this hugely enjoyable drama when things begin to fall apart.David Bosschaerthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13786738766478890804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3399742891742013690.post-10795536335382748452018-09-11T13:24:00.000-07:002018-11-12T13:06:49.553-08:00Autumn Season 2018All films start at 8.30 pm in the Skerries Sailing Club.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Wednesday 26 September – Under the Tree</i></b></span><br />
Dir: Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson, 2017, France/Iceland, 89 mins, Cert: Club<br />
Starring: Steinþór Hróar Steinþórsson, Edda Björgvinsdóttir, Sigurður Sigurjónsson<br />
Trailer: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJghTR5y9U0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJghTR5y9U0</a><br />
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The shade from a front-yard tree brings the already simmering tensions between two families in an Icelandic suburb to boiling point. Pitch black in its humour, Under the Tree is a dark and wry drama.<br />
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Grieving Inga and put-upon husband Baldvin are the proud owners of the area's only tree. Next door, amateur marksman Konrad lives with his new, much younger wife, the athletic Eybjorg — whose mere appearance incites torrents of expletives from Inga. Eybjorg is infuriated by the way the overhanging branches of Inga's beloved tree block the sunshine. Absurdly hilarious and psychologically astute, Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson, expertly draws out the repressed anger and grief of his characters. An excellent cast perfectly tread the line between comedy and drama.<br />
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Winner - Dublin Film Critics Circle Awards 2018 – Winner DFCC Best Cinematography Monika Lenczewska (director of photography)<br />
Nominated - Venice Film Festival 2017 - Venice Horizons Award - Best Film - Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson<br />
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<i>Good fences make very bad neighbors in Icelandic writer-director Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurdsson's black-frost comedy of suburban mores. – Guy Lodge, Variety</i><br />
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<i>Everyday black humor seesaws with drama - Deborah Young, Hollywood Reporter</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Wednesday 10 October – Let the Sunshine In</i></b></span><br />
<i>Un Beau Soleil Intérieur</i><br />
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Dir: Claire Denis, 2017, France, 94 minutes, Cert: Club<br />
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Xavier Beauvois, Philippe Katerine, Josiane Balasko, Sandrine Dumas, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Gérard Depardieu<br />
Trailer: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ps_Sau7xqQY">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ps_Sau7xqQY</a><br />
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Isabelle (Juliette Binoche) is a divorced artist living in Paris. She has several potential lovers and suitors who compete for her attention, or in some cases display complete indifference despite Isabelle’s own obvious interest…<br />
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Director Claire Denis (<i>Beau Travail, White Material</i>) is best known for her often dark and challenging dramas - so it may come as a surprise to see her tackling what is, in essence, a romantic comedy. What won’t come as a surprise, however, is that she has crafted an accomplished, artful and thoughtful twist on that much-maligned genre.<br />
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Inspired by Roland Barthes's 1977 text A <i>Lover's Discourse, Let The Sunshine</i> In also boasts one of Juliette Binoche’s most captivating performances of recent years.<br />
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Winner - SACD Award, Directors’ Fortnight, Cannes Film Festival 2017<br />
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★★★★<i> “... a sophisticated delight.” – The Guardian, Cannes Film Festival 2017</i><br />
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<i>“… an exquisite romantic comedy whose laughs are sad and whose sadness is funny.” – Slant Magazine, Cannes Film Festival 2017</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Wednesday 24 October – The Divine Order</i></b></span><br />
<i>Die Göttliche Ordnung</i><br />
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Dir: Petra Volpe, 2017, Switzerland, 96 minutes, Cert: Club<br />
Starring: Marie Leuenberger, Max Simonischeck, Marta Zoffoli, Nicholas Ofczarek, Sofia Helin<br />
Trailer: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMArK-cowTs">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EMArK-cowTs</a><br />
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1971: Nora is a young housewife and mother, living in a quaint little village in Switzerland with her husband and their two sons. The rural area is untouched by the major social upheavals the revolutionary movement of 1968 has brought about elsewhere. Nora’s life is not affected either; she is a quiet person who is liked by everybody – until she starts to publicly fight for women’s suffrage, which the men are due to vote on in a ballot. Despite obstacles and backlash Nora becomes a hero as she overthrows the status quo.<br />
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Switzerland was one of the last countries in the world to introduce female suffrage. And it is only since 1971 that women have had the right to vote.<br />
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Winner - Audience Award, Tribeca Film Festival 2017<br />
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<i>“… a heartfelt and captivating film about regular people demanding their right to an equal voice.” – Grainne Humphreys, Festival Director, Audi Dublin International Film Festival 2018</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Wednesday 7 November – The Guernsey Literary And Potato Peel Pie Society</i></b></span><br />
Director: Mike Newell, 2018, UK/USA, 124 minutes, 12A<br />
Starring: Lily James, Michiel Huisman, Matthew Goode, Jessica Brown Findlay, Penelope Wilton<br />
Trailer: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTDNGv61-Dk">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTDNGv61-Dk</a><br />
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London, 1946. Free-spirited author Juliet Ashton is invited to travel to the Channel Island of Guernsey to carry out research for a new book. Whilst there she meets the delightfully eccentric members of the Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, a mysterious literary group formed during the Nazi occupation.<br />
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Based on the beloved historical novel of Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows, directed by Mike Newell (<i>Into the West, Four Weddings and a Funeral</i>) and featuring a charming ensemble cast, <i>The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society</i> weaves a romantic story of love, courage and loyalty where the power of books can bring people together and provide refuge in their darkest times.<br />
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★★★★ <i>”… every location in this irresistible romantic mystery is like a little mini-break for the soul, every costume and piece of set-dressing nibble-ably gorgeous, and every character a pleasure to keep company with…” – The Telegraph</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Wednesday 21 November</i></b><b><i> – The Happy Prince</i></b></span><br />
Dir: Rupert Everett, 2018, Germany/Belgium/Italy, 105 minutes, 15A<br />
Starring: Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Colin Morgan, Emily Watson, Edwin Thomas<br />
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Free from prison after two years of hard labour in Reading Gaol, Oscar Wilde (Rupert Everett) is forced to live in exile in Europe. He yearns to reunite with his children, but ill-health and a misguided reconciliation with his beloved Bosie propel him towards a disasterous and ultimately fatal existence.<br />
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Supported by loyal friends Reggie Turner (Colin Firth) and Robbie Ross (Edwin Thomas), who try to protect him from his own excesses, Wilde courageously lives out his last years by falling back on the creativity, charm and brilliant wit that defined him.<br />
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Actor Everett writes, directs and stars in the untold story of Wilde’s tragic last days. <i>The Happy Prince</i> is a poignant, dignified and personal tribute to his hero.<br />
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★★★★★ <i>“... a fearless, committed, and award-worthy turn, and emblematic of a first-time film-maker at his most expressive and most affecting..” – The Times</i><br />
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★★★★ <i>"... a deeply felt, tremendously acted tribute to courage.” – The Guardian</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Wednesday 5 December</i></b><b><i> – Leave no Trace</i></b></span><br />
Dir: Debra Granik, 2018, USA, 109 mins, PG<br />
Cast: Thomasin McKenzie, Ben Foster, Jeffery Rifflard<br />
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A self-contained father and daughter, live happily on the fringes of society.<br />
Will, a war veteran, suffering from PTSD, and his teenage daughter Tom, live in a vast urban park in Portland. Will is vigilant about their camp, their rations and the regular drills they have to remain undercover. Only leaving the park to collect certain supplies, their bond is apparent and unyielding. Until the authorities discover them and social services intervene. Offering help, imposing compliance and conformity, they are given a new home, and a job and school are arranged. Will quietly prepares for them to disappear again but Tom is beginning to enjoy this world….<br />
Sensitive and enthralling with intense and touching performances from McKenzie and Foster.<br />
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<i>‘Debra Granik’s follow-up to Winter’s Bone is delicate family drama at heart’ </i><i>-Tara Brady, The Irish Times</i><br />
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<i>‘A father and his 13 year-old daughter are living in a paradisiacal existence in a vast urban park in Portland Oregon when a small mistake derails their lives forever ... Captivating’ </i><i>-David Edelstein, Vulture</i><br />
<i><br /></i>David Bosschaerthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13786738766478890804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3399742891742013690.post-27868177650522310572018-01-08T13:01:00.000-08:002018-01-08T13:01:36.525-08:00Spring Season 2018All films start at 8.30 pm in the Skerries Sailing Club.<br />
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<b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">Wednesday 10 January – </span></i></b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Lost in Paris</i></b></span><br />
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Dir: Fiona Gordon / Dominique Abel, 2016, French/English, 83mins, Cert: CLUB </div>
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Prepare to accompany one kooky Canadian as she embarks on a whimsical trip through France’s great city in this charming and entirely unique comedy which stars the two long-time Brussels-based theatre actor-directors (and real life couple) Fiona Gordon and Dominique Abel.</div>
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Fiona’s (Gordon) orderly and precise life in Canada is thrown into chaos when she receives a letter of distress from her 93-year-old Aunt Martha (Academy Award-nominee Emmanuelle Riva, Amour, 2012) who is living in Paris. Immediately jumping to action, Fiona arrives in the city of lights only to discover that Martha has disappeared. So begins a hysterical search crammed with one spectacular disaster after another as Fiona desperately scours the city with her oversized red backpack, all the while tailed by an infatuated Dom (Abel), an affable, but annoying tramp who won’t leave her alone.</div>
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Brimming with brilliantly timed pranks, amazing tricks and intricately choreographed slapstick in the vein of Charlie Chaplin and Jacques Tati, Lost in Paris will have you leaving the cinema with a gleeful skip in your step and a renewed zest for life</div>
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</i></b></span>Dir: Sean Baker, 2017, USA, 115 mins, Cert: 15A, English </div>
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Starring: Willem Dafoe, Brooklyn Prince, Bria Vinaite, Valeria Cotto </div>
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Six-year-old Moonie (Brooklynn Prince) lives with her mother Halley (Bria Vinaite) in a Florida motel. Along with her friends, Moonie spends the summer exploring the urban wilderness and getting into every sort of mischief. Halley, meanwhile, desperately tries to make ends meet. Kind but stern manager Bobby (Willem Dafoe) tries to keep his patience as rent goes unpaid and the hyperactive kids run wild.</div>
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In his follow-up to the acclaimed <i>Tangerine</i>, director Sean Baker cements his reputation as one of the great chroniclers of forgotten America. <i>The Florida Project</i> is a deeply sympathetic portrait of one small, neglected community. It’s the wildly energetic kids who really allow this remarkable film to soar, however - few films about childhood have ever felt this authentic.<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i><div>
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</i></b></span>Director: Ivan Sen, 2016, Australia, 110 minutes, Australia, Cert: CLUB</div>
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Starring: Aaron Pedersen, Alex Russell, Pei Pei Cheng, David Gulpilil, David Wenham, Jacki Weaver</div>
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Trailer: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWbk3-gEBRU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWbk3-gEBRU</a></div>
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Rugged, Indigenous Australian detective Jay Swan is arrested for drunk-driving by rookie local policeman Josh on the desolate road into the mining town of Goldstone. Jay is investigating the disappearance of a Chinese migrant worker, and while Josh is initially reluctant to help on the case, when it becomes apparent that something more sinister is happening in the area, the two men must overcome their differences and work together. </div>
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Australian director Ivan Sen’s follow-up to 2013’s <i>Mystery Road</i> is a complex, stylish and tense western that explores Australia’s history, whilst dealing with key contemporary issues. Like its predecessor, Goldstone is intelligent and thought-provoking cinema.</div>
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Winner - Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actress, Best Cinematography,Australian Film Critics Awards 2017</div>
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</i></b></span>Dir: Sally Potter, 2017, UK, 71mins, Cert: CLUB</div>
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Starring: Patricia Clarkson, Bruno Ganz, Cherry Jones, Emily Mortimer. Cillian Murphy, Kirsten Scott Thomas, Timothy Spall </div>
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Language: English</div>
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Janet has just been appointed minister in the shadow cabinet – the crowning achievement of her political career. She and her husband Bill plan to celebrate this with a few close friends. The guests arrive at their home in London but the party takes an unexpected turn for the worse when Bill suddenly makes two explosive revelations that shock Janet and everyone present to the core. Love, friendships, political convictions and a whole way of life are now called into question. Underneath their cultivated liberal left-wing surface people are seething. Their dispute leads to the big guns being brought out – even in a literal sense.</div>
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For her eighth theatrical feature British director and screenwriter Sally Potter, who last took part in the Berlinale Competition with Rage in 2009, has invited a stellar cast to join her party. Beginning as a subtly witty comedy replete with sharp-tongued dialogue, the film later veers off into tragedy. When life can no longer be controlled by reason, people will fight tooth and nail to protect their seemingly stable existence. <span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i><div>
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The Death of Stalin</div>
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</i></b></span>Dir:Armando Iannucci, 2018, France/UK, 106 mins, Cert: 15A</div>
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Starring: Jason Isaacs, Andrea Riseborough, Olga Kurylenko, Paddy Considine, Michael Palin</div>
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It’s 1953, and Joseph Stalin rules over the Soviet Union with an iron fist...until one morning he’s discovered unconscious. With the dictator at death’s door, his deputies including Nikita Khrushchev (Steve Buscemi), Lavrentiy Beria (Simon Russell Beale) and Georgy Malenkov (Jeffrey Tambor) beginjostling for power. Meanwhile, they find themselves dealing with Stalin’s demanding son & daughter, planning a grand funeral, and keeping the country in order...</div>
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In his return to the big screen, Armando Iannucci - creator of Veepand The Thick of It - brilliantly blends farce and drama in this hilarious yet probing historical satire. Loaded with inspired comic moments and thrilling political chaos, The Death of Stalin also proves a provocative portrait of a society under a cruel regime.</div>
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Back to Burgundy</div>
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</i></b></span><i>Ce qui nous lie</i></div>
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Dir: Cedric Klapisch, 2017, France, 113 mins, Cert: Club</div>
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Starring: Pio Marmaï, Ana Girardot, François Civil</div>
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Jean left his family and his native Burgandy ten years ago to tour the world. When learning of his father's imminent death, he returns to his childhood home. There he reconnects with his sister Juliette and his brother Jérémie. Their father dies just before the beginning of grape picking time. Over the period of a year, according to the rhythm of the seasons that follow one after the other, these three young adults will rediscover or reinvent their fraternal relationship, blossoming and maturing at the same time as the wine they make.</div>
David Bosschaerthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13786738766478890804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3399742891742013690.post-53952334035798495682017-08-28T14:07:00.001-07:002017-08-28T14:07:41.642-07:00Autumn Season 2017All films start at 8.30 pm in the Skerries Sailing Club.<br />
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<b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">Wednesday 27 September – A Man Called Ove</span></i></b><br />
<i>En man som heter Ove</i><br />
Dir: Hannes Holm, 2016, Sweden/Norway 116 mins, Cert: 15A<br />
Starring: Rolf Lassgård, Bahar Pars, Filip Berg, Ida Engvoll<br />
Language: Swedish<br />
Trailer: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mls2rlu1w_g">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mls2rlu1w_g</a><br />
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Ove (Rolf Lassgård) is a retiree struggling to come to terms with the death of his wife - a struggle that he angrily takes out on his neighbours by strictly enforcing the estate rules. Ove’s world is unexpectedly turned upside down when a young family move in next door. Despite his initial resistance, Ove slowly forms a bond with his new neighbours and discovers a whole new side of life...<br />
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Based on a novel and nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the 2017 Oscars, this Swedish hit is a bittersweet but charming tale of one man rediscovering himself after a devastating tragedy. Darkly comic but sensitively told, this is a true crowd-pleaser held together by a remarkable lead performance.<br />
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“<i>A strong contender for feel-good film of the year</i>” - David Hughes, Empire Magazine<br />
“<i>A touching comic crowd-pleaser that may call for a tissue or two by the end</i>” - Alissa Simon, Variety<br />
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Best Actor, Audience Award - Guldbagge Awards (annual Swedish film industry awards)<br />
Audience Award - Cabourg Film Festival<br />
Nominated - 2017 Academy Award, Best Foreign Language Film<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Wednesday 11 October – Heal the Living</i></b></span><br />
Dir: Katell Quillévéré, 2016, France, Belgium, 103 mins, Cert: CLUB<br />
Language: French<br />
Starring: Tahar Rahim, Emmanuelle Seigner, Anne Dorval, Bouli Lanners<br />
Trailer: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A2DNDsq1AQ">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A2DNDsq1AQ</a><br />
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It all starts at daybreak with three young surfers on the raging seas. A few hours later, on the way home, an accident occurs. Now entirely hooked up to life-support in a hospital in Le Havre, Simon’s existence is little more than an illusion. Meanwhile, in Paris, a woman awaits the organ transplant that will give her a new lease on life.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Wednesday 25 October – Tanna</i></b></span><br />
Dir: Bentley Dean, Martin Butler, 2015, Australia, Vanuatu, 104 mins, Cert: CLUB<br />
Starring: Mungau Dain, Marie Wawa, Marceline Rofit, Chief Charlie Kahla, Albi Nangia, Lingai Kowia<br />
Language: Nauvhal<br />
Trailer: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnR8pUoPJZU">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnR8pUoPJZU</a><br />
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Tomboy Selin lives in Yakel, a village on the volcanic island of Tanna in the South Pacific archipelago of Vanuatu. Selin’s older sister Wawa has fallen in love with the village chief’s grandson, Dain, but when hostilities break out with a neighbouring rival tribe, Wawa’s hand in marriage is offered as part of the peace negotiations. Faced with separation the lovers flee the village….<br />
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Based on true events that took place in 1987, and featuring an impressive cast of non-professionals drawn from the communities whose history is being represented on screen, Tanna is a visually stunning and captivating tale of forbidden love set amongst the Yakel people, and the first feature film shot completely on Vanuatu.<br />
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“<i>With its magnetic cast and Venice award-winning cinematography, this film treads the familiar theme of star-crossed lovers with shimmering vitality.</i>” – The Guardian<br />
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“<i>…a stirring tribute to the power of love…</i>” - Variety<br />
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Best Cinematography, International Critics Week, Venice Film Festival 2015<br />
Audience Award, International Critics Week, Venice Film Festival 2015<br />
Australia’s official entry for the 2017 Oscars<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Wednesday 8 November – Nocturnal Animals</i></b></span><br />
Dir: Tom Ford, 2016, USA, 116 mins, Cert: 16<br />
Starring: Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Shannon, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Isla Fisher, Armie Hammer<br />
Language: English<br />
Trailer: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5n750DzGzG0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5n750DzGzG0</a><br />
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From writer/director Tom Ford comes a haunting romantic thriller that explores the thin lines between love and cruelty, and revenge and redemption. Susan Morrow, a Los Angeles art dealer, lives a privileged yet unfulfilled life with her husband Hutton Morrow. One weekend, as Hutton departs on a business trip, Susan receives an unsolicited package left for her in her mailbox. It is a novel, <i>Nocturnal Animals</i>, written by her ex-husband Edward Sheffield, with whom she has had no contact for years. Edward’s note accompanying the manuscript encourages Susan to read the work and then to contact him during his visit to the city. Alone at night, in bed, Susan begins reading. The novel is dedicated to her...<br />
...but its content is violent and devastating. While Susan reads, she is deeply moved by Edward’s writing and cannot help but reminisce over the most private moments from her own love story with the author. Trying to look within herself and beyond the glossy surface of her life, Susan increasingly interprets the book as a tale of revenge, a tale that forces her to re-evaluate the choices that she has made, and re- awakens a love that she feared was lost—as the story builds to a reckoning that will define both the novel’s hero and her own.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Wednesday 22 November – Lion </i></b></span><br />
Director: Garth Davis, 2016, Australia, India 2016, 120 mins, PG<br />
Cast: Dev Patel, Rooney Mara, David Wenham, Nicole Kidman, Sunny Pawar<br />
Trailer: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziOLGzKq6oo">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziOLGzKq6oo</a><br />
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Based on the true story of 5-year-old Saroo Brierley who becoming separated from his older brother one night, is carried 1600km from his home on a decommissioned train. Unable to speak the regional language, he is forced to become one of the cities many street children but is eventually adopted by an Australian couple. 25 years later his memory is triggered and he finds himself wrestling with the need to seek out his original family. Conflicted by the enormity of this and fearing what he may find if anything, the film offers raw, excellent performances from Pathel and Kidman but it is Sunny Pawar, whose remarkable and wrenching portrayal of 5 year old Saroo who steals the show.<br />
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“As enthralling as it is emotional’’ – David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter<br />
“The true story of a foundling Indian boy who locates his mother years later via Google Maps is given the treatment it deserves in this intelligent, heartfelt film.’’ – Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian<br />
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BAFTA Awards 2017 Won Best Supporting Actor Dev Patel<br />
BAFTA Awards 2017 Won Best Adapted Screenplay Luke Davies<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Wednesday 6 December – Lady MacBeth</i></b></span><br />
Dir: William Oldroyd, 2016, UK, 89 mins, Cert: 16<br />
Starring: Florence Pugh, Cosmo Jarvis, Paul Hilton, Naomi Ackie, Christopher Fairbank<br />
Language: English<br />
Trailer: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDhZI4WiQ78">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDhZI4WiQ78</a><br />
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Debut director William Oldroyd and writer Alice Birch move from theatre to film with an ingeniously realised adaptation of an 1865 Russian novella Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District. Katherine (Florence Pugh) is a young bride, unhappily married to the nasty son of a wealthy mine owner. Unable to consummate his marriage, the husband is sadistic, refusing to even allow his young wife out of the house. Left alone when her husband is called away on business, Katherine starts to explore the grounds and initiates a passionate affair with earthy, ill-mannered stable-hand Sebastian (Cosmo Jarvis), while her increasingly concerned maid (rising star Naomi Ackie) watches on. Lady Macbeth has grand ambitions, and exudes a rare vision and talent. Proving her knockout turn in The Falling was no fluke, Pugh amazes as a heroine whose behaviour shifts from steely proud to wild-eyed and deranged.<br />
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David Bosschaerthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13786738766478890804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3399742891742013690.post-92095575031731136142017-01-04T11:42:00.001-08:002017-01-04T11:46:42.907-08:00Sping Season 2017All films start at 8.30 pm in the Skerries Sailing Club.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Wednesday 18 January – A Date for Mad Mary</i></b></span></div>
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Dir: Darren Thornton, 2016, Ireland 82 mins, Cert: 15A </div>
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A 'Mad' Mary McArdle returns to Drogheda after a short spell in prison - for something she'd rather forget. Back home, everything and everyone has changed. Her best friend, Charlene, is about to get married and Mary is to be her maid of honour. When Charlene refuses Mary a 'plus one' on the grounds that she probably couldn't find a date, Mary becomes determined to prove her wrong. 'A date for Mad Mary' is a tough and tender story about friendship, first love, and letting go of the glory days.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Wednesday 01 February – After Love</i></b></span></div>
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<i>L'économie du couple</i></div>
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Dir: Joachim Lafosse, 2016, France/Belgium, 100 mins</div>
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Starring: Cast: Bérénice Bejo, Cédric Kahn, Marthe Keller, Jade Soentjens, Margaux Soentgens</div>
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Language: French</div>
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Trailer: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-zxQXzSpbM">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-zxQXzSpbM</a></div>
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Marie is the breadwinner in the relationship, but it was her family's wealth, not her salary, that allowed the couple to purchase their stylish apartment. This is a fact that Boris, a contractor currently between jobs, never lets her forget, since it was his renovation work that added significant value to the property. As Marie and Boris argue over everything — finances, who's taking the girls to soccer, and even passing the cheese plate at dinner — <i>After Love</i> reveals the complexities of their relationship and the depth of the cracks in it.</div>
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Lafosse deftly avoids taking sides in this absorbing family drama, inviting the audience to see that both parties are right, and both are wrong. Relentlessly observant of his characters' daily routines and oscillating emotions, Lafosse uses his trademark confined setting and tightly controlled handheld photography to create a claustrophobic environment, enveloping us in the gathering storm that is this couple's relationship. With outstanding, genuine performances from Bejo and Kahn, the subtle and powerful <i>After Love</i> reminds us that sometimes, no matter how much beauty is to be found in our immediate surroundings, we just need to get out. - <i>Toronto International Film Festival 2016</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Wednesday 15 February – Captain Fantastic</i></b></span></div>
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Dir: Matt Ross, 2016, USA, 118 mins, Cert: TBC</div>
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Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Frank Langella, George MacKay, Samantha Isler, Annalise Basso, Nicholas Hamilton</div>
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Language: English</div>
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Deep in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, isolated from society, a devoted father dedicates his life to transforming his six young children into extraordinary adults. But when a tragedy strikes the family, they are forced to leave this selfcreated paradise and begin a journey into the outside world that challenges his idea of what it means to be a parent and brings into question everything he’s taught them. - <i>Cannes program 2016</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Wednesday 01 March – The Unknown Girl</i></b></span></div>
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<i>La Fille inconnue</i></div>
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Dir: Jean-Pierre Dardenne, Luc Dardenne, 2016, Belgium/France, 113 mins, 15A</div>
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Starring: Adèle Haenel, Olivier Bonnaud, Jérémie Renier, Louka Minnella, Christelle Cornil, Nadège Ouedraogo</div>
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Language: French</div>
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Trailer: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caKLk-LizyI">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caKLk-LizyI</a></div>
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Adele Haenel stars as young doctor Jenny Davin, who refuses to answer the buzzer to her surgery after hours one night. She is informed the next day that the caller, a young, unidentified woman has been found dead nearby. Consumed by guilt Jenny commits to finding out the identity of the young girl, so that she can be buried with her name, reclaiming her identity. Driven by an overriding sense of moral responsibility Jenny puts herself in the middle of an investigation that endangers her also.</div>
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Another complex look at social compromises, the Dardenne Brothers deliver an engaging and moving work with an intense, internalised performance for Haenel as Jenny, whose single minded pursuit of justice will resonate with audiences.</div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Wednesday 15 March – Viva</i></b></span></div>
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Director: Paddy Breathnach, 2015, Ireland/Cuba, 100 mins, 15A </div>
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Starring: Héctor Medina, Jorge Perugorría, Luis Alberto García</div>
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Language: Spanish</div>
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Trailer: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S097UTL057I&t=26s">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S097UTL057I&t=26s</a></div>
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Jesus (Héctor Medina) a shy, delicate, struggling hairdresser finds a genuine opportunity to enrich his life when he is given the chance to perform as a Drag Artist. But when Jesus’abusive estranged father returns, he forcefully forbids the young man from performing. Jesus must decide to either fulfil his potential or wilt under the dictate of his father. What unfolds is a bittersweet story of pain, regret, and reconciliation, as the two men learn to know and respect each other for the first time. Featuring boisterous and often heart-breaking drag performance, Paddy Breathnach’s Oscar-shortlisted crowd-pleaser is a tender and compassionate tale of finding one’s true voice.</div>
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<i>Best Irish Film, Audi Dublin International Film Festival 2016 </i></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">Wednesday 29 March – Up For Love</span></i></b></div>
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<i>Un homme à la hauteur</i><br />
Dir: Laurent Tirard, 2016, France/Belgium, 98 mins, Cert: CLUB<br />
Starring: Jean Dujardin, Virginie Efira, Cédric Kahn, César Domboy, Myriam Tekaïa, Jean-Michel Lahmi<br />
Language: French<br />
Trailer: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLUh5LeiIn4">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLUh5LeiIn4</a><br />
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Oscar winner Jean Dujardin, as charismatic as ever, returns to SIFF in this new romantic comedy from Laurent Tirard, the director of Molière (SIFF 2007's Closing Night film). Diane (Virginie Efira, SIFF 2014's Turning Tide) is a successful lawyer three years removed from her divorce, and she has been romantically challenged ever since. But her luck changes one afternoon when a stranger calls her flat, having found her cell phone and wanting to return it. Over the phone, Alexandre is both funny and charming, and the pair develop an easy chemistry with each other, leading to a date of sorts to return her lost phone. Eagerly arriving at the appointed time and place, Diane is caught completely off-guard when Alexandre arrives—all 4'6" of him. (He literally has to hop up into his café chair.) At first his stature makes Diane uncomfortable, but she soon discovers that Alexandre is pretty much the complete package—witty, intelligent, handsome—so who cares if she has to bend down to kiss him? However, Alexandre and Diane will have to face many other romantic challenges, including a full-sized rival as well as public gawking and the judgement of society, if they are going to make it to their happily-ever-after in this delightful comedic romp. -<i>Seattle International Film Festival 2016</i><br />
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<br />David Bosschaerthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13786738766478890804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3399742891742013690.post-80962784947775928002016-08-23T12:20:00.000-07:002016-08-26T11:02:18.310-07:00Autumn Season 2016All films start at 8.30 pm in the Skerries Sailing Club.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Wednesday 28 September – Sweet Bean</i></b></span><br />
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Dir: Naomi Kawase France, Germany, Japan 2015, 113 mins, Cert TBC<br />
Starring: Kirin Kiki, Masatoshi Nagase, Kyara Uchida<br />
Language: Japanese<br />
Trailer: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcwKPRfTMa4" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KcwKPRfTMa4</a><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijDD6Vg4Tcs8pcNXrlSm3jyD6satI89OorTHoHcWT2i8LbpAEatONirO6Xr0B7Ydfyq3ydXnbmVx2pFGcTFkJxNrNSJM8KmWmpHZCD3Q1ILFoPkPvRIpawUSEaO6_3Ro_W1xPMOk_VNZo/s1600/Sweet+Bean+03.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijDD6Vg4Tcs8pcNXrlSm3jyD6satI89OorTHoHcWT2i8LbpAEatONirO6Xr0B7Ydfyq3ydXnbmVx2pFGcTFkJxNrNSJM8KmWmpHZCD3Q1ILFoPkPvRIpawUSEaO6_3Ro_W1xPMOk_VNZo/s400/Sweet+Bean+03.jpg" width="400" /></a>A lonely baker has his life (and business) reinvigorated when he hires an elderly woman with an uncanny culinary skill and a mysterious communion with nature, in this graceful, quietly moving drama from Japan’s Naomi Kawase (The Mourning Forest, Still the Water).<br />
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Adapted from the novel by Durian Sukegawa, the new film by Naomi Kawase (who last appeared at the Festival in 2014 with Still the Water) is a graceful ode to the invisible essences of existence — to the beauty and joy we can discover once we learn to listen to nature and feel the life that is coursing through and all around us.<br />
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"An" is a delicious red bean paste, the sweet heart of the dorayaki pancakes that Sentaro (Masatoshi Nagase) sells from his little bakery to a small but loyal clientele. Absorbed in sad memories and distant thoughts, Sentaro cooks with skill but without enthusiasm. When seventy-six-year-old Tokue (Kirin Kiki) responds to his ad for an assistant and cheerfully offers to work for a ridiculously low wage, Sentaro is skeptical about the eccentric old lady's ability to endure the long hours. But when she shows up early one morning and reveals to him the secret to the perfect an — listening to the stories of wind, sun and rain that the beans have to tell — Sentaro agrees to take her on, trusting her strange ability to connect with nature. With Tokue's new home-cooked an recipe, Sentaro's business begins to flourish — but along with her smiles and culinary skill, Tokue is afflicted with an illness that, once revealed, drives her into isolation once again.<br />
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Using cookery to explore her perennial theme of communion with nature, in Sweet Bean (An) Kawase also poignantly addresses the discrimination that condemns many like Tokue to live their lives segregated from the rest of society. Beautifully shot and quietly moving, Sweet Bean (An) is a humble masterpiece from a singularly accomplished filmmaker. – <i>Giovanna Fulvi, Toronto International Film Festival 2015</i><br />
<i>Winner Audience Award Cork International Film Festival, 2015</i><br />
<i>Winner Audience Award São Paulo International Film Festival, 2015</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Wednesday 12 October – </i></b></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Louder Than Bombs</i></b></span><br />
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Director: Joachim Trier, Norway, France, Denmark, 2015, 109 minutes, Cert: TBC</div>
Starring: Gabriel Byrne, Isabelle Huppert, Jesse Eisenberg, Devin Druid, Rachel Brosnahan, Ruby Jerins, Megan Ketch, David Strathairn, Amy Ryan<br />
Trailer: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4I1l_J9QuVk" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4I1l_J9QuVk</a><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGHtXWF7K5ptvBhuzdT5YOTmf8ro0aWSuDcXRvy9pREgKYiN7cDCmGWQ1J-XiFWAOSKVjA4M4DhYdl3xpDhKJRZNJCMkFk8xd9uHviReKyk8aSQd88HFcDY1oJBvC1qBkJbH3WP9jN2DU/s1600/Louder+Than+Bombs+3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGHtXWF7K5ptvBhuzdT5YOTmf8ro0aWSuDcXRvy9pREgKYiN7cDCmGWQ1J-XiFWAOSKVjA4M4DhYdl3xpDhKJRZNJCMkFk8xd9uHviReKyk8aSQd88HFcDY1oJBvC1qBkJbH3WP9jN2DU/s400/Louder+Than+Bombs+3.jpg" width="400" /></a>An aging schoolteacher (Gabriel Byrne) grappling with the recent death of his photojournalist wife (Isabelle Huppert) attempts to reconcile with his two very different sons (Jesse Eisenberg and Devin Druid), in the first English-language feature by acclaimed Norwegian director Joachim Trier (Reprise).<br />
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With his first English-language feature, Joachim Trier (whose previous films Reprise and Oslo, August 31 both played at the Festival) reconfirms his well-earned reputation as one of the finest young European directors to emerge in the past decade. Working with his co-writer and long-time collaborator Eskil Vogt, in <i>Louder Than Bombs</i> Trier expertly (and sometimes audaciously) shuttles between different timeframes and character perspectives as he investigates the dynamics of a troubled family.<br />
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Gene Reed (Gabriel Byrne) is an aging high-school teacher who, while grappling with the sudden death of his photojournalist wife Isabelle (Isabelle Huppert), is also experiencing difficulties connecting with his youngest son Conrad (Devin Druid), a painfully shy loner who finds his only outlet on the internet. When Jonah (Jesse Eisenberg), Gene's wunderkind eldest son — a promising young academic who has become an insufferably moralizing pedant — returns to the family home almost immediately after the birth of his first child, Gene seizes upon the opportunity to try and mend the rifts in the familial fabric. This last-chance bid for reconciliation is made all the more urgent by an upcoming, posthumous exhibition of Isabelle's work, which may lead to a public revelation of some of the Reeds' darker secrets.<br />
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Trier displays a truly novelistic sense of character and detail as he probes the fault lines of this singularly unhappy clan, and he also mines sly comedy from the generational gap between Gene and his sons. Powerful, memorable, and psychologically acute, Louder Than Bombs is both a lament for what has been lost and an affirmation of what remains. – Steve Gravestock, <i>Toronto International Film Festival 2015</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Wednesday 26 October – Youth</i></b></span><br />
Dir: Paolo Sorrentino, Italy 2015, 118 mins Cert: TBC<br />
Starring: Michael Caine, Harvey Keitel, Rachel Weisz, Paul Dano, Jane Fonda<br />
Language: English<br />
Trailer: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxwqrRmRbYk" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxwqrRmRbYk</a><br />
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Retired composer and conductor Fred (Michael Caine) is taking treatments at a luxury Swiss spa, watched over by his daughter (Rachel Weisz). He’s there with his old friend Mick, a film director (Harvey Keitel) who, unlike Fred, doesn’t plan on giving up his career just yet. Both while away the time reminiscing about their young days and their past loves and, fully aware of their age, they have no illusions about the future. They observe the lives of dozens of colourful individuals whom they meet or simply glimpse passing by, and who compel them to reflect on youth and beauty.<br />
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Here, Paolo Sorrentino once again stages a “choral theatre of life,” where the motley characters surrounding the central figures each have a fundamental role to play – not as part of the almost nonexistent story, but as one of the constituents of the filmmaker’s design. This latter is stunningly rendered via image and music and, instead of a sense of decline and finality, the impression is more one of hope, reinforced by a wonderful and strongly emotive ending.<br />
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Sorrentino’s new film was considered one of the best works in this year’s Cannes competition but, like The Great Beauty (2013), it failed to win a prize.<br />
– <i>Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2015</i><br />
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Dir: Simon Fitzmaurice, Ireland 2015, 100 mins, Cert: TBC<br />
Starring: Evanna Lynch, Michael Smiley, Martin McCann<br />
Language: English<br />
Trailer: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeAJpAKoShY" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeAJpAKoShY</a><br />
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Packed off to a foster home after her father is institutionalized, a rebellious young Irish girl resolves to bust her dad out of the hospital where he's been confined, in this spirited coming-of-age tale from celebrated memoirist and first-time feature director Simon Fitzmaurice.<br />
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The debut feature from Irish writer-director Simon Fitzmaurice is a spirited coming-of- age story that traces the journey of a strong-willed young woman as she weathers loss, upheaval, and rebirth.<br />
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"If you hide from death, you hide from life." Teenage Emily (<i>Harry Potter's</i> Evanna Lynch) inherits this mantra from her father Robert (Michael Smiley), an author and philosopher of sorts, whose lectures and writings encourage others to live for the moment at the expense of social niceties.<br />
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But following the tragic death of Emily's mother, Robert starts to change, and his visionary eccentricities now appear to be symptoms of mental illness. Robert is soon institutionalized, and Emily is sent away to live with foster parents and attend a school where everyone dismisses her as a weirdo — everyone, that is, except Arden (George Webster), an awkward but endearing classmate with family problems of his own.<br />
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When Emily suddenly decides to travel north to bust her father out of his psychiatric hospital, the hopelessly smitten Arden joins her on a renegade road trip that will give both youngsters their first taste of what it truly means to be alive.<br />
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Brimming with images of freedom, from the wide open road to the vast expanse of the sea, and buoyed by an arrestingly confident performance from Lynch, My Name is Emily will resonate with the young and young-at-heart alike. This is a stylish and assured film about self-discovery as an ongoing adventure. – <i>Michele Maheux, Toronto International Film Festival 2015</i><br />
<i>Winner - Best Cinematography in an Irish Feature, Galway Film Fleadh 2015</i><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">Wednesday 23 November – Mustang</span></i></b><br />
Dir: Deniz Gamze Ergüven France, Germany, Turkey, Qatar 2015, 97 mins, Cert: 15A<br />
Starring: Günes Sensoy, Doga Zeynep Doguslu, Tugba Sunguroglu, Elit Iscan, Ilayda Akdogan<br />
Language: Turkish<br />
Trailer: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5GdLjcK9G0" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B5GdLjcK9G0</a><br />
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Five Turkish adolescent sisters have their basic freedoms unjustly stripped from them in director Deniz Gamze Erguven's understated feminist drama.<br />
The word Mustang, which is also the evocative title of Turkish-French filmmaker Deniz Gamze Erguven's stirring first feature, conjures vivid images of bands of wild horses roaming the untamed American West, their manes flying and their defiant spirits resistant to being broken. Those qualities also fit the five young sisters in this intimate drama, whose independence and burgeoning sexuality prompt their alarmed guardians to sequester the girls in a systematic campaign to break their unity and tame them into traditional female roles.<br />
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The eloquent story's art house prospects will be helped by its stinging relevance in a world where young women across many backgrounds continue to be culturally repressed.<br />
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Unfolding in a remote Black Sea coastal village in northern Turkey, the film opens as the orphaned sisters begin their summer break. The youngest of them, Lale (Gunes Sensoy), shows a particular fondness for her female teacher (Bahar Karimoglu), who is returning to Istanbul. Giddy with the euphoria that accompanies the end of any kid's school term, the girls walk home along the rocky beach, splashing about in innocent horseplay with some male classmates. With their long dark hair and slender bodies, they look like beautiful fairytale nymphs as they clown around, later raiding a farmer's overgrown apple orchard.<br />
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But their cheerful energy turns to dismay as their strict grandmother (Nihal Koldas) ushers them into their house on a hill. Informed by a villager who saw them cavorting on the beach, she fears the girls' virtue and their marriage prospects have been tarnished. Her hysteria is fanned by the angry reaction of their Uncle Erol (Ayberk Pekcan), who is not above taking advantage of their supposed disgrace in the case of one of the girls. Despite the sisters' vehement denial of any wrongdoing, which is verified by medical examination, they are locked up behind closed doors. Potentially corrupting influences like phones and computers are removed, and they are outfitted in shapeless dung- colored frump dresses for rare outings in the village.<br />
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As Lale describes it in a voiceover, the house becomes a "wife factory." The girls are given instruction by local women in traditional cooking and homemaking as their grandmother sets the wheels in motion to arrange marriages for each of them, starting with the eldest, Sonay (Ilayda Akdogan).<br />
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There are mordant echoes here of the five Bennet daughters in Pride and Prejudice, whose mother's anxiousness to get them married off is a matter of financial rather than moral urgency. However, this is no comedy of manners. The more direct comparison is with the Lisbon sisters in The Virgin Suicides, but those doomed sirens become architects of their own isolation, almost as much as their overprotective parents.<br />
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Erguven and her co-screenwriter Alice Winocour (whose film Maryland screens in Un Certain Regard) are more interested in the girls' instinct for self-preservation as they strike back against their enforced captivity and the hurried plans being made for them. This binds them even closer together, at first in displays of harmless, often amusing rebellion and outspokenness, but gradually in spiraling desperation as some of them slide into numbed, even tragic acceptance. In an interview, Erguven referenced the multiheaded hydra creature from Greek mythology, and the film shows the steady weakening of the girls' collective force as each "head" is separated and subdued.<br />
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Shot in unfettered, naturalistic style in the atmospheric locations, Mustang has something of a frontier feel, an aspect nourished by the melancholy score of Warren Ellis, the Nick Cave collaborator known for his work on such unconventional Westerns as The Proposition and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. But Erguven's film is also a suspenseful if somewhat improbable prison-break movie (albeit one that eschews standard devices of the genre), in which the oppressive wardens believe they are acting in the best interests of their charges.<br />
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Only one of the five principals, Elit Iscan, has screen-acting experience, but all of them (the remaining two are Tugba Sunguroglu and Doga Doguslu) register strongly, both as individuals and as part of a tight-knit unit whose bone-deep allegiance no doubt was fortified by the loss of their parents.<br />
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What makes the transfixing film so effective is that the director refuses to portray them simplistically, as misunderstood angels, and she has enough trust in her audience to leave the drama's implicit feminism unstated. The story's quiet power comes from its sensitive observation of the characters as normal, emancipated young modern women, with healthy desires and curiosities, whose supposed transgressions are imagined and then magnified in the judgmental minds of others.<br />
– <i>David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter</i><br />
<i>Winner Label Europa Cinema Cannes Film Festival 2015 </i><br />
<i>Winner</i><i> LUX Film Prize European Parliament 2015</i><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">Wednesday 7 December – The Measure of a Man</span></i></b><br />
<i>La Loi du marché </i><br />
Dir: Stéphane Brizé, France 2015, 93 mins Cert: TBC<br />
Starring: Vincent Lindon, Yves Ory, Karine de Mirbeck, Matthieu Schaller<br />
Language: French<br />
International Trailer: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53dyUDeEVGw" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53dyUDeEVGw</a><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ74tN4JCY7caRtyuafXhYeIwt8VmQSWGsoaw8bbRGIxROjoBEzMtHLa_sfcosAoQNZSvScyIVCmvkajW7BvtQlSVtKZzX8Pq6XFJQwwVP8USZfz3enjsP15cFKEm8h2SlLIzk3uKxOBg/s1600/MEASURE_OF_A_MAN_01.tif" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhZ74tN4JCY7caRtyuafXhYeIwt8VmQSWGsoaw8bbRGIxROjoBEzMtHLa_sfcosAoQNZSvScyIVCmvkajW7BvtQlSVtKZzX8Pq6XFJQwwVP8USZfz3enjsP15cFKEm8h2SlLIzk3uKxOBg/s400/MEASURE_OF_A_MAN_01.tif" width="400" /></a>Sometimes the lightest touch has the greatest impact. That is certainly the case in this deft, clean and very moving drama. The zero-sum game that is the "law of the market" (the French title)—wherein if one wants a job another must be let go—lies at the heart of Stéphane Brizé’s profoundly humanist and exceedingly timely film. Without blame or rancour it makes plain the often humiliating and soul-destroying choices foisted upon ordinary people just trying to make a living in today’s economic climate. Vincent Lindon is superb as Thierry, a mechanic who’s been unemployed for over a year and who has endured dashed hopes and constant rejection in his search for work. When he finally lands a job in security at a big-box supermarket, he is forced into situations where he must make decisions that go against everything he believes in... — <i>Vancouver International Film Festival 2015</i><br />
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"A companion piece to the Dardenne brothers’ recent <i>Two Days, One Night</i> in its strong sense of labor and justice in an often unjust economy, Brizé’s sixth feature film... is [a] low-key but powerfully affecting social drama... [The director] draws a lead performance from frequent collaborator Vincent Lindon that is a veritable master class in understated humanism... Taking a page from the Dardennes, Brizé has also surrounded Lindon with an entire cast of non-professional performers playing lightly dramatized versions of themselves—a strategy that, to its great credit, will go unnoticed by most viewers, the venerable French leading man blending effortlessly into his surroundings..."—<i>Scott Foundas, Variety</i><br />
<i>Winner – Best Actor, Cannes Film Festival 2015</i>David Bosschaerthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13786738766478890804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3399742891742013690.post-5919612120012638352016-01-04T13:42:00.000-08:002016-01-07T09:22:31.283-08:00Spring Season 2016All films start at 8.30 pm in the Skerries Sailing Club.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Wednesday 27 January – The Second Mother</i></b></span><br />
<i>Que Horas Ela Volta?</i><br />
Dir:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Anna Muylaert, Brazil 2014, 112 mins, Cert: Club<br />
Language: Portuguese<br />
Starring: Regina Case, Antonio Abujamra, Helena Albergaria<br />
Trailer: <a href="https://vimeo.com/120686781">https://vimeo.com/120686781</a><br />
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When Val (Regina Casé) left her home to work thousands of miles away as a live-in housekeeper for Fabinho (Michel Joelsas) in Sao Paulo, she carried the guilt of leaving her young daughter Jessica behind with relatives. Now, 13 years later, Jessica (Camila Márdila) shows up in Sao Paulo, and her presence throws into disarray the unspoken class barriers within Fabinho’s home. – <i>Chicago Critics Film Festival 2014</i><br />
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“This is the sort of savvy, socially conscious crowdpleaser that occupies a rare middle ground between genteel and intellectual world cinema.” – <i>Geoff Berkshire, Variety</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Wednesday February 10 – 45 Years</i></b></span><br />
Dir:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Andrew Haigh, UK 2014, 93 mins, Cert: TBC<br />
Language: English<br />
Starring: Charlotte Rampling, Geraldine James, Tom Courtenay<br />
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Kate is in the middle of preparations for her 45th wedding anniversary when her husband Geoff suddenly receives news which pulls him back into the past. Fifty years ago his then girlfriend had a fatal accident in the Swiss Alps. Now, finally, her body has been found, frozen in ice and time. Kate and Geoff are both shocked but are unable to share their insecurity with each other. He retreats ever more into a distant world of memories whilst Kate endeavours to suppress her burgeoning jealousy and anxiety with pragmatism. She needs to concentrate on selecting the music and menu for the party and taking care of the other arrangements.<br />
Outwardly, everything is business as usual. But the camera cautiously registers how a well-tuned coexistence is going out of kilter. Whether over a shared breakfast or a lonely wander through the town, Kate feels more and more like a stranger in her own life. 45 Years tells the story of two people who, caught up in unexpected emotions, are forced to bolster themselves against unfamiliar feelings and, in doing so, have the rug pulled out from under their feet. After 45 years, which feeling will prevail on the couple's big day? – <i>Berlin Film Festival 2015</i><br />
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Wednesday 24 February – Fidelio, Alice’s Journey</i></b></span><br />
<i>Fidelio, l’odyssee d’Alice</i><br />
Dir: Lucie Borleteau, France 2014, 94 mins, Cert: CLUB<br />
Language: French<br />
Trailer: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7UlMYgTbmo">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7UlMYgTbmo</a><br />
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The ‘journeys’ that Alice (a wonderfully free-spirited Ariane Labed) sets off on are physical, sexual and emotional. She has become a sailor – working as a mechanic on freighters – not necessarily to see the world but rather to find herself.<br />
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When she boards the rickety Fidelio as a last minute replacement for a crew member killed in an accident, she finds the captain is her former lover Gael (Melville Poupaud).<br />
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Labed won the best actress award at the Locarno Film Festival for her performance. – <i>Edinburgh International Film Festival 2015</i><br />
<i>Best Actress, Locarno Film Festival 2014</i><br />
<i>Europa Cinemas Label Award, Locarno Film Festival 2014</i><br />
★★★★ The Irish Times<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Wednesday 9 March – Taxi Tehran</i></b></span><br />
Dir:<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Jafar Panahi, Iran 2015, 81 mins, Cert: CLUB<br />
Language: Farsi<br />
Starring: Jafar Panahi<br />
Trailer: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSiqbpqMqns">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSiqbpqMqns</a><br />
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Winner of the Golden Bear at this year’s Berlinale, Panahi’s latest is perhaps his most playful film yet. Riffing on the narrative structure pioneered in Kiarostami’s 10, it’s mostly set and entirely shot from inside a car: a taxi of sorts, with Panahi playing himself as an affable amateur cabbie. After giving rides around Tehran to a motley array of passengers – from a rabid reactionary and a liberal teacher to a man selling pirate DVDs and women heading to a shrine – he finally collects his niece, a sassy youngster making a little movie herself for school. Cue a discussion of how film should represent reality (or not!): a subject clearly close to Panahi’s heart, given his standing with the Iranian authorities. Despite its concern with ethics, aesthetics and politics, the film oozes disarming charm and mischievous wit, slyly reminding us that cinema, for better or worse, always trades in illusion. - <i>Geoff Andrew, BFI London Film Festival 2015</i><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">Wednesday 23 March – In the Courtyard</span></i></b></div>
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Dir: Pierre Salvadori, France 2013, 97 min, Cert: CLUB</div>
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<i>Presented with the support of the French Embassy and the Institut Français.</i><br />
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Dir: Dome Karukoski, Finland/Iceland, 2014, 104 min, Cert: TBC</div>
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The Grump (Antti Litja) is a stubborn, sour-faced old farmer with a rose-tinted view of the past. After a bad fall, he is forced to move from his family farm to the city home of his career-focussed daughter-in-law. Struggling to exist in this new world, the old man seems to do nothing but clash with everyone around him. But slowly it becomes apparent that the old fellow could still teach the modern world a trick or two!</div>
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Based on the popular novel by Finnish author Tuomas Kyrö, <i>The Grump</i> is a charming and comedic culture-clash satire from up-and-coming director Dome Karukoski (<i>Lapland Odyssey</i>).</div>
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David Bosschaerthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13786738766478890804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3399742891742013690.post-33529396285520204422015-09-19T13:53:00.000-07:002015-09-19T13:55:35.488-07:00Autumn Season 2015All films start at 8.30 pm in the Skerries Sailing Club.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Wednesday 23 September – Wild Tales</i></b></span><br />
Dir: Damián Szifrón, Argentine 2014, 122 mins, Cert: TBC<br />
Starring: Ricardo Darín, Oscar Martínez, Darío Grandinetti, Rita Cortese, Julieta Zylberberg, Erica Rivas, Leonardo Sbaraglia<br />
Language: Spanish<br />
Trailer: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUnXv6R2HI8">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUnXv6R2HI8</a><br />
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Wild Tales is a collection of six crazy, absurd and hilarious stories of people who are stressed out or depressed by the drive for success, competition and the inequality of the world we live in. With its underlying theme of violence and vengeance, this Argentinean black comedy-drama boasts an eclectic ensemble cast. Co-produced by Pedro Almodóvar, Wild Tales is Argentina’s submission to the 87th Academy Awards in the Best Foreign Language Film category. - <i>Dubai International Film Festival 2014</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Wednesday 7 October – </i></b><b><i>The New Girlfriend </i></b></span><br />
<i>Une nouvelle amie</i><br />
Dir: François Ozon, France 2014, 107 mins, Cert:TBC<br />
Starring: Anaïs Demoustier, Romain Duris, Raphaël Personnaz, Isild Le Besco<br />
Trailer: <a href="https://youtu.be/1FvrFAOYoII">https://youtu.be/1FvrFAOYoII</a><br />
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Claire (Anaïs Demoustier) is grieving the loss of her lifetime best friend, who has left behind a husband, David (Romain Duris), and a newborn baby. On an unannounced visit, a shocked Claire discovers David nuzzling his infant while wearing the clothes of his dead wife. Unfazed, David explains that his former wife had always been aware of this particular idiosyncrasy. In time, Claire begins to overcome her initial reaction, and helps David to create his own female persona to inhabit.<br />
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In this, his latest cinematic offering, Ozon has delivered a well-paced psychological drama that investigates grief and identity. The New Girlfriend is also a funny, good-natured poke at the mores and peccadilloes of France’s bourgeoisie in a film that effortlessly fuses the best of Hitchcock and Almodóvar. - <i>Alliance Francaise French Film Festival 2014</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif;"><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">Wednesday 21 October </span></i></b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i>– </i></b></span><b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">The Salt of the Earth</span></i></b></span><br />
Dir: Juliano Ribeiro, Salgad, Wim Wenders, Italy, Brazil, France 2014, 110mins, Cert: PG<br />
Language: French, Portuguese<br />
Starring: Sebastiao Salgado, Wim Wenders, Juliano Ribeiro<br />
Trailer: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-aSHz8Ywgs">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-aSHz8Ywgs</a><br />
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Oscar nominations for The Buena Vista Social Club and Pina attest to the way that the documentary seems to bring out the best in Wim Wenders. The Salt of the Earth is no exception as it pays tribute to the extraordinary life of photographer and environmentalist Sebastião Salgado.<br />
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Working with Salgado’s son Juliano Ribeiro, Wenders has created a film entirely in keeping with the humility of the subject. Hauntingly beautiful images are matched with illuminating testimony to create an utterly absorbing portrait. Salgado is a magnetic personality and he recalls some of the major projects of his career, including Workers and Genesis, an affectionate love letter to the planet.<br />
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Salgado recalls lengthy periods of his life when he saw ample evidence of death and destruction. Typically, he found creative ways to transcend that despair and the film ends in hope as we learn of the Salgado family’s success in re-building an entire ecosystem at the Instituto Terra in Brazil. A fitting tribute to an inspirational figure. - <i>Allan Hunter / Screen International</i><br />
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Dir: Anne Fontaine, 2013 France, 99 mins, Cert: TBC<br />
Starring: Gemma Arterton, Fabrice Luchini, Jason Flemyng, Niels Schneider<br />
Language: French, English<br />
Trailer : <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhFhWsL28U0">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhFhWsL28U0</a><br />
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When an English couple moves into a quaint village in Normandy, their curious neighbor Martin finds himself obsessed with the stunning young wife Gemma. His fascination leads to strange behavior; a harmless but dedicated stalker, he’s relentless in his hope she’ll return his affection. He compares her to Madame Bovary, the adulterous housewife character from Gustave Flaubert’s book of the same name. While his fantasies begin to materialize, it’s not Martin she ends up cheating with. Instead, it’s the dashing but somewhat cocky Niels, a law student who lives nearby. Their affair only fuels Martin’s obsession, who constantly spies on them and eventually hatches a plan to break them up. But Gemma’s infidelity issues go much further than he thought, as she’s tangled in a web that could destroy her. Gemma Bovery isn't just a tale of love and obsession, though. It also balances drama with the comedic antics of Martin, played brilliantly by Fabrice Luchini. It’s a surprisingly fun rom-com both sexes can enjoy. - <i>Cleveland International Film Festival 2014 </i><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">Wednesday 18 November – The Forgotten Kingdom</span></i></b><br />
Dir: Andrew Mudge, 2013 Lesotho, 97 mins, Cert: CLUB<br />
Starring: Zenzo Ngqobe, Nozipho Nkelemba, Jerry Mofokeng, Lebohang Ntsane<br />
Language: Sesotho<br />
Trailer: <a href="https://vimeo.com/65070432">https://vimeo.com/65070432</a><br />
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The mountainous scenery of Lesotho provides the canvas for director Andrew Mudge’s profoundly visual story, which tells the tale of Atang: a young man obliged to make a pilgrimage from the bustle of Johannesburg to his native Lesotho upon learning that his father has passed away.<br />
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There, Atang is reunited with childhood friend Dineo, with whom he discovers a romantic spark. But her disapproving father whisks Dineo away and sends Atang back to Jo’burg. Resolving to win her back, Atang enlists the help of a young orphan boy to guide him through the arresting rural terrain.<br />
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The first film ever to be produced in Lesotho, The Forgotten Kingdom is a beguiling quest steeped in the history and culture of the Basotho people. - <i>Cambridge Film Festival 2013</i><br />
<i><b>Winner – Audience Award, Cambridge Film Festival 2013</b></i><br />
<i><b>Winner – Audience Award, Florida Film Festival 2013</b></i><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-family: Times, Times New Roman, serif; font-size: x-large;">Wednesday 2 December – Force Majeure</span></i></b><br />
<i>Turist</i><br />
Dir: Ruben Östlund, Sweden 2014, 118 mins, Cert: Club<br />
Starring: Johannes Bah Kuhnke, Lisa Loven Kongsli, Clara Wettergren, Vincent Wettergren, Kristofer Hivju, Fanni Metelius<br />
Language: Swedish, English<br />
Trailer: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nTJIc_e6Ns">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nTJIc_e6Ns</a><br />
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In director Ruben Östlund’s film a father, Tomas, puts his own safety ahead of his family’s in a perceived disaster. The feared disaster does not actually take place, but in illustrating Tomas’ behavior under duress, the event sends fault-lines through the relationship between his family and himself. This engaging drama follows the aftermath of this uncertain, intense, and undeniable moment. - <i>Calgary Film Festival 2014 </i>David Bosschaerthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13786738766478890804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3399742891742013690.post-18097919478026821382015-01-09T14:14:00.003-08:002015-01-09T14:20:52.812-08:00Spring Season 2015All films start at 8.30 pm in the Skerries Sailing Club.<br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Dir: Daniel Schechter, USA 2013, 94 mins, Cert: Club</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Starring: Jennifer Aniston, Isla Fisher, Tim Robbins, Will Forte, Jon Hawkes, Mos </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Def</span><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6IPboxbv5SrIxTt2C0DRkRKig5f9t2gjQmZQuBIU0a1CkmFQUSvo9-U-7MDFIjTb-d8sjNIihuTrCOYuXNvqNj_T-t_HvXYOxgIrLZnXKqGexyIuqwm-HRQQ-80vJ0hIT1w1xBe7_MoA/s1600/life-of-crime-jennifer-aniston.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6IPboxbv5SrIxTt2C0DRkRKig5f9t2gjQmZQuBIU0a1CkmFQUSvo9-U-7MDFIjTb-d8sjNIihuTrCOYuXNvqNj_T-t_HvXYOxgIrLZnXKqGexyIuqwm-HRQQ-80vJ0hIT1w1xBe7_MoA/s1600/life-of-crime-jennifer-aniston.jpg" height="212" width="320" /></a><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Jennifer Aniston, Tim Robbins and John Hawkes star in this wildly entertaining caper, </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">adapted from a book by Elmore Leonard, about two ex-cons whose plan to kidnap a real </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">estate developer’s wife doesn’t go quite as smoothly as expected.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Author Elmore Leonard's characters Ordell Robbie and Louis Gara were made famous </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">on the screen by Samuel L. Jackson and Robert De Niro in Quentin Tarantino's <i>Jackie </i></span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><i>Brown</i>. Stepping into the skin of Robbie and Gara for a very different adventure set </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">fifteen years prior to the events of <i>Jackie Brown</i>, yasiin bey (perhaps better known to </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">audiences as Mos Def ) and John Hawkes star in Daniel Schechter's new seventies </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">caper comedy, <i>Life of Crime</i>.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Fresh out of prison, where they bonded over their similar convictions for grand theft auto, </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Ordell and Louis (Hawkes) have already decided to team up when they catch wind of </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Frank Dawson (Tim Robbins), a Detroit property developer and secret embezzler. Their </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">plan is simple: they'll kidnap Frank's country-club wife, Mickey (Jennifer Aniston), and </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">hold her for ransom. What the duo didn't count on is that Frank's affections have turned </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">to his perky young mistress, Melanie (played by the always charming Isla Fisher), and </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">he may not be in a rush to rescue his spouse. Eliciting Mickey's insider knowledge, the </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">crooks shift gears, frantically devising a new plan.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Also featuring great performances from Will Forte and Seana Kofoed, <i>Life of Crime</i> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">utilizes its all-star cast and impeccable art direction to build an entertaining and hilarious </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">period piece. Evoking the spirit of some of the greatest film adaptations of Leonard's </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">novels, Get Shorty, Out of Sight and, of course, Jackie Brown, Schechter serves up a </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">twisty comedic gem. - <i>Toronto International Film Festival 2014</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"><i>Les beaux jours</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Dir: Marion Vernoux, France 2013, 94 mins, Cert: Club</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Starring: Fanny Ardant, Laurent Lafitte, Patrick Chesnais, Jean-Francois Stevenin, Fanny Cottencon, Catherine Lachens</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Language: French<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Trailer: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OLL5Ptu6T0">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OLL5Ptu6T0</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">In this sophisticated French drama, a woman in her 60s (film icon Fanny Ardant, 8 Women, Confidentially Yours) falls for a much younger man (Laurent Lafitte, Little White Lies), her computer teacher at the local seniors’ club. As she finds herself courting danger—taking her young lover to places they could easily be discovered by her husband (Patrick Chesnais, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly)—she must decide if her retirement will mark the end for her marriage, or a new beginning. Director Marion Vernoux constructs a subtle and sultry vision of a woman struggling to evaluate the role she has played for others versus the life she wants for herself. - <i>Ashley Havey / Tribeca Film Festival 2014</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Dir: Hans Petter Moland, Norway 2013, 116 mins, Cert: Club<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Starring: Stellan Skarsgård, Bruno Ganz, Pål Sverre Hagen, Birgitte Hjort Sørensen, Anders Baasmo Christiansen, Gard B. Eidsvold</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Language: Norwegian</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Norway, winter. Introverted and hard-working Nils drives the powerful snow plough that keeps open the roads and mountain passes of the inhospitable frozen landscape where he lives. He’s just been named citizen of the year for his efforts when he receives news that his son has died of a heroin overdose. Refusing to believe the official version of his son’s death, he begins a covert search for the boy's alleged murderers. A surprising turn of events causes him to become a tough-as-nails and feared underworld hero – one whose identity nobody knows. A gruesome black comedy full of impressive images of an endless wintry-white landscape which Nils knows how to use to his advantage. The film deploys dark comedy to depict Nils’ exploits in the realm of gangsters, which is characterised by a delicately nuanced portrayal of the mentalities of Swedish, Norwegian and Serb mafiosi with Bruno Ganz putting in an appearance as a Serb mafia boss. - <i>Berlin Film Festival 2014</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Dir: Pawel Pawlikowski, Poland </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">2013, </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">80 mins</span>, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Cert: 15A</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Starring: Agata Kulesza, Agata Trzebuchowska, Dawid Ogrodnik</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Language: Polish</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Anna has spent her whole life in cloistered devotion to God. Before taking her vows, she meets her hard-living aunt and discovers that her Jewish parents were murdered during the Nazi occupation. This disciple of Christ and cynical, world-weary Communist then set off on a road trip which becomes a voyage of personal discovery and reconciliation.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><i>Winner - Best Film, London Film Festival 2013</i></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><i>Winner – International Critics Prize, Toronto International Film Festival 2013</i></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Wednesday<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">March</span> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">25</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">– </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The Grand Seduction</span></i></b></span><br />
<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Dir: Don McKellar, </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Canada</span> 2013, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">113 mins</span>, <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Cert: 12A</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Starring: Brendan Gleeson, Taylor Kitsch, Gordon Pinsent, Liane Balaban, Mark Critch, Mary Walsh</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">In order to secure a vital factory contract, the residents of a small Newfoundland fishing village conspire to charm a big-city doctor into becoming the town’s full-time physician in this sparkling comedy from director Don McKellar (Last Night) and screenwriter Michael Dowse (The F Word).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Like many affected by the collapse of the fishing industry, residents of this once-thriving settlement are driven to seek employment in the city, or, worse, queue for government assistance. Their future begins to look brighter when a plastics manufacturer proposes to set up shop – until they learn that the contract calls for a resident doctor. Enter Dr Lewis (Taylor Kitsch), an ethically suspect cosmetic surgeon. In a riotous attempt to charm him, the villagers fall over themselves trying to persuade him that their seemingly sleepy hamlet is secretly a hotbed of cosmopolitan sophistication.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">The Grand Seduction’s gentle, whimsical reflections are poignant and uproarious by turns, and brought to life through superb performances from Brendan Gleeson and Canadian icon Gordon Pinsent. Shot on location in Trinity Bay, the film is certain to delight even the saltiest cynic. - </span><i style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">Toronto International Film Festival 2013</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Wednesday<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">April</span> <span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">15</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">– The </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';">100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared </span></i></b></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Dir: Felix Herngren<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>, Sweden 2013, 114 mins, Cert: 15A</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Starring: Robert Gustafsson, Iwar Wiklander, Mia Skaringer, David Wiberg, Jens Hulten, Alan Ford</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Times New Roman;">Jonas Jonasson’s witty, feel-good international best-seller gave pleasure to millions and proved that it is never too late to let a little adventure in your life. The eagerly awaited screen version stars Robert Gustafson as the Zelig-like Allan Karlsson who quietly escapes from the celebrations for his one hundredth birthday and takes to the road. Little misunderstandings and unfortunate coincidences soon find him in possession of a suitcase of cash and being hotly pursued by crooks and criminals. It’s hardly going to trouble a man who played a vital role in making the atomic bomb, has known several world leaders and participated in some of the key events of the last century. An outrageous delight. - <i>Glasgow Film Festival 2013</i></span>David Bosschaerthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13786738766478890804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3399742891742013690.post-82541501008098953982014-08-20T13:23:00.002-07:002014-09-23T12:45:47.738-07:00Autumn Season 2014All films start at 8.30 pm in the Skerries Sailing Club.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><b>Wednesday September 24 – Ghost Train + Run and Jump</b></i></span></div>
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The season starts with a double feature starting with a short from Lee Cronin (Ghost Train) and then followed by the full-length feature Run and Jump. Lee Cronin himself will be attending!<br />
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<i><b><span style="font-size: large;">Ghost Train</span></b></i><br />
Written and Directed by Lee Cronin, Ireland 2013, short film<br />
Starring: Owen McDonnell, Steve Wall, Matthew Dillon, Sean Gormley, Matthew Broe<br />
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Once a year, estranged brothers Michael and Peter make a reluctant
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Dir: Steph Green, Ireland 2013, 102 mins, Cert: 15A <br />
Starring: Maxine Peake, Will Forte, Edward MacLiam, Sharon Horgan Language: English<br />
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After a stroke leaves her husband mentally disabled and fundamentally changed, spirited Irish housewife Vanetia struggles to keep her family together in the wake of tragedy. A research grant from American doctor Ted Fielding, interested in documenting the family’s recovery process, allows them to get by. Though Vanetia initially resents living under Ted’s microscope, she soon finds comfort in his calming presence, while Ted responds to Vanetia’s dynamic, unpredictable personality. As the two explore their bond within their unique situation, a new family begins to emerge.<br />
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Directed by Academy Award-nominee Steph Green and featuring Saturday Night Live star Will Forte in an impressive dramatic debut, this life-affirming film embraces the healing power of love and family in all of its idiosyncratic forms. Run and Jump is an unexpected, unconventional romance, intimate family portrait and emotional journey of recovery that ultimately uplifts through its heartfelt message of human connection and the power of acceptance. - <i>Cara Cusumano / Tribeca Film Festival 2013</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><b>Wednesday October 8 – Coda + The Golden Dream</b></i></span><br />
On Wednesday October 8, we'll also be running a short, Coda, followed by the full-feature film: The Golden Dream.</div>
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Trailer: <a href="http://vimeo.com/85697081">http://vimeo.com/85697081</a></div>
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This nine-minute, hand-drawn animated film is voiced by Brian Gleeson (Standby, The Stag, Love/Hate) and Orla Fitzgerald (The Wind that Shakes the Barley). </div>
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<i>Winner: Best Animated Short Film at the South by SouthWest (SXSW) film festival in Austin, Texas</i></div>
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<i>La Jaula de Oro</i> <br />
Dir: Diego Quemada-Diez, Mexico, Spain 2013, 102 mins, Cert: CLUB <br />
Starring: Brandon Lopez, Rodolfo Dominguez, Karen Martinez, Carlos Chajon<br />
Language: Spanish<br />
Trailer: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgp9g9NF_x0">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgp9g9NF_x0</a><br />
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In order to escape from the squalid barrio in which they live, young Guatemalan teens Juan, Sara and Samuel make the decision to attempt the 1,200 mile-long arduous border crossing into “The Golden Cage”, i.e. USA, via Mexico in search of a better life. In order to blend in with the group and protect herself from the harm a woman can suffer on the journey, Sara initially disguises herself as a boy named Oswaldo.<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><b>Wednesday October 22 – Before the Winter Chill</b></i></span><br />
<i>Avant L’Hiver</i></div>
Dir: Philippe Claudel, France 2013, 103 mins, Cert: CLUB <br />
Starring: Daniel Auteuil, Kristin Scott-Thomas, Leila Bekhti, Richard Berry<br />
Language: French <br />
Trailer: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjLwYKyqgYg">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjLwYKyqgYg</a><br />
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Kristin Scott Thomas plays Lucie, the downtrodden wife of terminally grumpy surgeon Paul (played by Daniel Auteuil), who maintains a sleekly modern forest home. Paul seems bored and distracted, but we come to learn that he has been receiving red flowers from a woman who wants to thank him for some surgery he claims not to have performed.<br />
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Before the Winter Chill is the second collaboration between director and writer Philippe Claudel and England’s greatest gift to French cinema, Kristin Scott Thomas. Their first film together was I’ve Loved You So Long, which became one of the most talked about film of 2008. This is another sublime, elegant slow-burner, and looks all set to repeat that success. - <i>20th Bradford International Film Festival 2013</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><b>Wednesday November 5 – A Thousand Times Goodnight</b></i></span><br />
Dir: Erik Poppe, Norway/Ireland 2013, 111 mins, Cert: 12A<br />
Starring: Juliette Binoche, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, Lauryn Canny, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Larry Mullen Jr., Mireille Darc, Adrianna Cramer Curtis, Mads Ousdal<br />
Trailer: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y98z8tkpNe8">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y98z8tkpNe8</a><br />
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Juliette Binoche plays Rebecca, a war photographer who constantly risks harm just to capture the perfect shot. It's a passion that's earned her many awards, but one that also leaves her family in constant fear. During a trip to Afghanistan, Rebecca is injured while accompanying a female suicide bomber to Kabul. When she returns home to Ireland, her husband makes it clear that he's fed up. With regret, Rebecca retires her camera and decides to focus her energy on her family. Her oldest daughter Steph begins to show an interest in humanitarian work after doing a project for school. One of Rebecca's connections offers her an opportunity to take Steph to Kenya to visit a refugee camp. Under the assurance that the trip will be safe, her husband agrees to let them go. When the camp is attacked, Rebecca's priorities will once again be tested. Will her desire to document tragedy come before her safety and her daughter’s? Binoche is absolutely superb as a highly conflicted, work-obsessed photojournalist. - <i>Cleveland Film Festival 2014</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><b>Wednesday </b></i></span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><b>November 19</b></i></span> – Ilo Ilo</b></i></span><br />
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Starring: Angeli Bayani, Yeo Yann Yann, Chen Tianwen, Koh Jia Ler <br />
Language: Mandarin <br />
Trailer: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkNHIdEou7o">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BkNHIdEou7o</a><br />
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Set in Singapore, ILO ILO chronicles the relationship between a family of three and their newly arrived Filipino maid, Teresa, who has come like many other Filipino women in search of a better life.<br />
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Her presence in the family worsens their already strained relationship. Jiale, the young and troublesome son, starts to form a unique bond with Teresa, who soon becomes an unspoken part of the family.<br />
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But this is 1997 and the Asian Financial Crisis is starting to be felt in the region… - <i>Cork Film Festival 2013</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><b>Wednesday December 3 – Mood Indigo</b></i></span> <br />
<i>L'écume des jours</i></div>
Dir: Michel Gondrey, France 2013, 94 minutes, Cert: 12A<br />
Starring: Audrey Tautou, Romain Duris, Gad Elmaleh, Omar Sy, Aïssa Maïga, Charlotte Le Bon<br />
Language: French<br />
Trailer: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezPQBlaQsvo">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezPQBlaQsvo</a><br />
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Colin lives a truly charmed life. A helpful mouse works around his house and he has invented a Pianocktail, an instrument that makes cocktails based on what you play. However, his friends Chick and Nicolas have found love. This is the one thing that has eluded Colin. One night, at a dog's birthday party, he is introduced to Chloe. They fall in love and are happily married. But Chloe develops strange music in her lung that quickly turns into a water lily. Is their happy life about to shatter? Odd, you say? Nothing is odd in Michel Gondry's wonderful fantasy, where people and rooms change shape to suit their needs and time and space have no rules or boundaries. MOOD INDIGO is a world unto itself, where doorbells are living things and the Church only marries the winners of an insane go-cart race. This exhilarating cinematic toy box crams each frame with visual treats and delightful tricks. Once this film drops you down its romantic rabbit-hole, reality happily vanishes! - <i>Cleveland International Film Festival 2014 </i></div>
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David Bosschaerthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13786738766478890804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3399742891742013690.post-19030907287526235652014-01-15T12:30:00.002-08:002014-01-15T12:34:57.722-08:00Spring Season 2014All films start at 8.30 pm in the Skerries Sailing Club.<br />
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Dir: Gilles Bourdos, France 2012, 111 mins, Cert: CLUB</div>
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The Côte d’Azur. 1915. In his twilight years, Pierre-Auguste Renoir is tormented by the loss of his wife, the pains of arthritic old age and the terrible news that his son Jean has been wounded in action. But when a young girl miraculously enters his world, the old painter is filled with a new, wholly unexpected energy. Blazing with life, radiantly beautiful, Andrée will become his last model, and the wellspring of a remarkable rejuvenation.</div>
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Back at the family home to convalesce, Jean too falls under the spell of the new, redheaded star in the Renoir firmament. In their Mediterranean Eden - and in the face of his father's fierce opposition - he falls in love with this wild, untameable spirit... and as he does so, within weak-willed, battle-shaken Jean, a filmmaker begins to grow. - <i>Cannes Film Festival 2012</i></div>
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Shun Li works in a textile factory in the outskirts of Rome, in order to get her papers and enable her eight-year-old son to come to Italy. She is suddenly transferred to Chioggia, a small city-island in the Venetian lagoon, to work as a bartender in a pub. Bepi, a Slavic fisherman nicknamed ‘the Poet’ by his friends, has been a regular at that little pub for years.</div>
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The friendship between Shun Li and Bepi upsets both the Chinese and native communities, who interfere with this new relationship, which appears to place all concerned in a state of fear. A truly poignant and poetic account of the destructive power of prejudice and friendship in a foreign territory. - <i>Cork Film Festival 2012</i></div>
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Dir: Felix van Groeningen, Belgium, Netherlands 2012, 100 mins, Cert: CLUB</div>
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Didier and Elise’s relationship is stormy and passionate; it’s love at first sight. Didier plays the banjo in a bluegrass band, lives in a caravan in the Belgian countryside and idolises America as the ‘land of the free’. Elise owns her own tattoo parlour. Her body is plastered with images – little mementos of past lovers whose names have been carefully covered up by new tattoos. Before long their two lives are closely intertwined. Elise sings in Didier’s band and they soon have a daughter together, little Maybelle, with whom they move into a lovingly if unconventionally restored country house. This film accompanies Elise and Didier on their rollercoaster ride through life; through days filled with their love of music and their mutual passion.</div>
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Based on the stage play by Johan Heldenbergh and Mieke Dobbels, director Felix van Groeningen portrays various episodes in Elise and Didier’s story. The film’s barn-stomping blue grass concert footage and enthralling love story are delightfully reminiscent of the grand old days of American country music. - <i>Berlin Film Festival 2013</i></div>
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In the first full-length feature film shot entirely inside Saudi Arabia, Wadjda tells the story of a 10-year-old girl living in a suburb of Riyadh, the capital. After a fight with her friend Abdullah, Wadjda sees a beautiful green bicycle for sale. She wants the bicycle desperately so that she can beat Abdullah in a race. But Wadjda's mother won't allow it, fearing repercussions from a society that sees bicycles as dangerous to a girl's virtue. So Wadjda decides to try to raise the money herself. A cash prize for a Quran recitation competition at her school leads Wadjda to become a model pious girl as she devotes herself to the memorisation of Quranic verses. The Quran competition isn't going to be easy, especially for a troublemaker like Wadjda, but she is determined to fight for her dreams... with or without society's approval. - <i>Human Rights Watch Film Festival London 2013</i></div>
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Dir: Daniel Espinosa, Sweden 2010, 124 mins, Cert: 15A<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div>
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Safe House director Daniel Espinosa first grabbed attention with this violent, vice-like thriller based on the bestselling novel by criminal defence attorney Jens Lapidus. Praised for its dynamic storytelling and tangy evocation of a multicultural Sweden, it finds its focus in handsome economics student JW, a man who has dipped his toes in the drug trade and discovered that he is now swimming with sharks. Escaped con Jorge is lining up a massive cocaine deal that will smash the Serbian mafia’s control of the local drug trade. Mafia enforcer Mrado is not about to let that happen and somewhere in the middle there is slick, resourceful JW who works for Jorge’s partners in crime. - <i>Jameson Dublin International Film Festival 2013</i></div>
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Dir: Roger Mitchell, UK, France 2013, 92 mins, Cert: 15A<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span></div>
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Jim Broadbent and Lindsay Duncan play a middle-aged, middle-class couple who visit Paris for a long weekend in hopes of rekindling their relationship—or, perhaps, to bring it to an end. Diffident, wistful Nick (Broadbent) and demanding, take-charge Meg (Lindsay Duncan) careen from harmony to disharmony to resignation and back again as they take stock and grapple with love, loss, regret and, disappointment, in their own very English way. When they accept a dinner invitation from Nick’s old friend Morgan (Jeff Goldblum), an American academic superstar with a fancy Parisian address, the film strikes one surprising grace note after another, building to a lyrical ending that is, incidentally, one of the loveliest movie homages (in this case, to Godard’s Band of Outsiders) in years. This magically buoyant, bittersweet comedy drama, starring two of Britain’s national treasures, is a new peak in the ongoing collaboration between screenwriter Hanif Kureishi and director Roger Michell. - <i>New York Film Festival 2013</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Wednesday September 25 – Untouchable</i></b></span></div>
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Dir: Eric Toledano, Olivier Nakache, France 2011, 112 mins Cert: 15A</div>
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Starring: François Cluzet, Omar Sy, Anne Le Ny, Audrey Fleurot, Clotilde Mollet, Alba Gaïa Bellugi, Cyril Mendy and Christian Americ. </div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">He only wants a signature to keep social welfare off his back. Senegalese émigré Driss (Omar Sy) has no intention of getting hired when he applies to be a live-in carer for millionaire paraplegic Philippe (François Cluzet). Following a disastrous interview – during which Driss flirts with the Parisian aristocrat’s foxy secretary and robs a Fabergé egg – no one is more surprised than he when the older man takes him on for a trial.</span><br />
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Slowly but surely, the two become friends. Driss introduces Philippe to marijuana, massage and Earth, Wind and Fire; Philippe, in turn, introduces art, classical music and paragliding.</div>
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By now you’ve likely heard of <i>Untouchable</i>, the biggest French success of 2011 and the biggest grossing non-English-language title of all time. Last year the culture clash comedy was voted the arts event of 2011 in France. It won by a landslide margin and will represent France at next year’s Oscars.</div>
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Anglophone territories have waited as <i>Intouchables</i>, to use its birth name, smashed records around the world, snaffling up $364.6 million and topping charts in Germany, Poland, Switzerland, Spain, Austria, Belgium and Italy.</div>
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Based on <i>A Second Wind</i>, Philippe Pozzo Di Borg’s chronicle of friendship with his former carer Abdel Sellou, <i>Untouchable</i>’s generally cheery trajectory unfolds as a series of big, punch-the-air, inspirational set pieces and earnest Shawshank Redemption-brand sentimentality. – <i>Tara Brady, The Irish Times </i><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">Wednesday October 9 – A Hijacking</span></i></b><br />
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A tense and intricately shot drama, writer/director Tobias Lindholm’s solo debut is a powerful and intensely watchable film as it tackles the high-pressure negotiations over a hijacked ship. Lindholm wrote for the award-winning Danish TV series <i>Borgen</i>, as well as scripting Thomas Vinterberg’s <i>The Hunt</i>, while with Michael Noer he co-directed the tough prison drama <i>R</i>. </div>
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The film opens with simple sequences of the ship’s cook Mikkel (Pilou Asbæk) going about his work, but never actually shows the hijacking of the <i>Rozen</i>, a cargo ship in the Indian Ocean, instead skipping two days forward to see CEO Peter (Søren Malling) first discover his company’s vessel has been hijacked. Over the coming weeks Peter has to haggle with translator Omar (Abdihakin Asgar), while on board the <i>Rozen</i>, Mikkel and his fellow shipmates are locked below decks and start to lose hope that they will ever escape alive.</div>
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Pilou Asbæk (who starred in <i>R</i>) is moving and memorable as the genial chef whose sanity starts to crack, while equally fine is Søren Malling as the shrewd, calm and professional businessman who feels he must take responsibility for the situation, but is not fully prepared for haggling over men’s lives. – <i>Mark Adams, Screen International</i></div>
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Dir: Jeff Nichols, USA 2012, 130 mins Cert: 12A</div>
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Starring: Matthew McConaughey, Tye Sheridan, Jacob Lofland, Sam Shepard</div>
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An atmospheric thriller and coming-of-age tale set on a slow bend in the Mississippi river, <i>Mud</i> has the look and feel of an American indie classic. It is a surefire best picture nominee at next year's Oscars and likely to win some kind of award at Cannes, receiving the warmest applause of the festival at its morning press screening.</div>
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<i>Mud</i> takes its name from its lead character, played by Matthew McConaughey, delivering the best performance of his career (and his second at the festival, after <i>The Paperboy</i>) as a fugitive holed up on an island in the Mississippi after murdering a rival for his lover Juniper (Reese Witherspoon). Mud is wanted by the police and bounty hunters hired by the murdered man's family. He is discovered, however, by two 14-year-old boys, Ellis and Neckbone, who live in houseboats along one of the river's swampy tributaries. They fall under Mud's charismatic spell and are talked into helping him rebuild an old motor boat stranded in a treetop – dumped there, one assumes, years before by a flood or a tornado.</div>
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The boys are beautifully played by Tye Sheridan (who starred as one of Brad Pitt's sons in last year's Palme d'Or winner, <i>The Tree of Life</i>) and Jacob Lofland. The teenagers' thrill and adventure in secretly aiding Mud gives the film a Huckleberry Finn-ish flavour that blends with something akin to Rob Reiner's 1986 classic <i>Stand By Me</i> and Charles Laughton's <i>The Night of the Hunter.</i> For such an American film, there are also clear echoes of British classics such as <i>Great Expectations</i> and <i>Whistle Down the Wind</i>.</div>
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Writer-director Nichols, working with cinematographer Adam Stone, succeeds in capturing the life and the geography of his locale, its beauty and its dangers, as venomous snakes crawl in the swirling, brown water and local divers fish for oysters and crabs in their own nets. <i>Mud</i>, which also stars Sam Shepard and Michael Shannon, is a very fine film about innocence, father figures and love, a work that manages to be thrilling, unsentimental and emotionally rewarding. This is, sadly, an all too rare combination in so many films, particularly the other American ones that showed in this year's Cannes competition, making <i>Mud</i> all the more worth the wait. – <i>Jason Solomons, The Observer</i></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">Wednesday November 6 – Lore</span></i></b></div>
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Starring: Saskia Rosendahl, Kai Malina, Ursina Lardi, Nele Trebs</div>
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The long-awaited follow-up to her exquisite <i>Somersault</i>, Australian director Cate Shortland’s adaptation of the novel <i>The Dark Room</i> by Rachel Seiffert is a sensual and complex story that explores the tribulations faced by the young in the aftermath of World War II.</div>
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When their Nazi SS parents are taken into Allied custody, five siblings are left to fend for themselves. Teenage Lore (Saskia Rosendahl) takes charge, and the children set out to join their grandmother in Hamburg, some 900 km away. Along the arduous journey, the children encounter a populace suffering from post-war denial and deprivation, and for the first time are exposed to the reality and consequences of their parents’ actions. With food hard to come by, and the journey becoming ever more dangerous, the children meet Thomas (Kai-Peter Malina), a young Jewish survivor who helps them negotiate their way through tricky situations. Lore is both repulsed by and attracted to Thomas. All that she has been taught leads her to believe that he is the enemy, but his industriousness, generosity and physicality prove alluring. A coming-of-age tale set against the backdrop of a changing world, Lore shows new life emerging out of darkness with great intelligence and subtlety. – <i>Sydney Film Festival 2012</i></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">Wednesday November 20 – Love is All You Need</span></i></b></div>
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Dir: Susanne Bier, Denmark 2012, 116 mins Cert: 15A </div>
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Starring: Trine Dyrholm, Pierce Brosnan, Molly Blixt Egelind, Sebastien Jensen, Paprika Steen, Kim Bodnia, Christiane Schaumburg-Muller, Micky Skeel Hansen</div>
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Pierce Brosnan stars in the innocuously-titled but gloriously enjoyable <i>Love is All You Need</i>, the latest film from the Danish director Susanne Bier, whose In <i>A Better World</i> won the foreign language Oscar in 2011. </div>
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Brosnan plays Philip, a widower and big noise on the Copenhagen fruit and vegetable wholesale scene who is hosting his son’s wedding at his villa in Sorrento. Also in attendance is the mother of the bride, Ida (Trine Dyrholm – <i>A Royal Affair</i>), a cancer survivor who has just completed a course of chemotherapy but is still awaiting the final all-clear. Ida’s tubby husband has absconded with the girl from accounts, so she, like Philip, is without a date. As they make the final preparations for their offspring’s nuptials, the flames of love start to catch.</div>
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Anders Thomas Jensen’s script, which is just about equal parts English and Danish, is packed with humour that springs from recognisable human foibles, and Brosnan and Dyrholm have fizzingly good chemistry together. <i>Love is All You Need</i> has been made for an audience rarely catered for by the film industry: intelligent adults who enjoy perceptive and good-hearted drama. – <i>Robbie Collin, The Daily Telegraph</i></div>
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<b><i><span style="font-size: x-large;">Wednesday December 4 – I Wish</span></i></b></div>
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Dir: Hirokazu Kore-Eda, Japan 2011, 127 mins Cert: Club</div>
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Starring: Koki Maeda, Oshiro Maeda, Kirin Kiki, Joe Odagiri</div>
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Language: Japanese</div>
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<span style="text-align: justify;">One of the year's best films has arrived quietly, unnoticed by the awards-season cheerleaders, but with its delicacy and complexity, it puts the Oscar-bait to shame. Hirokazu Koreeda's </span><i style="text-align: justify;">I Wish</i><span style="text-align: justify;"> has taken two years to come to Europe. It has been more than worth the wait. </span><br />
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Like his earlier movie <i>Still Walking</i>, this is a deeply considered Japanese family drama in the tradition of Ozu, with echoes of Edward Yang and Tsai Ming-liang – moving, sometimes heartbreakingly sad, often mysterious. The film is about the powerful imperative of family unity, but also about the inevitability, and even desirability, of families finally disintegrating and allowing everyone involved a painful kind of freedom.</div>
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The original title is <i>Kiseki</i>, or "Miracle", and a miracle is being longed for by two brothers, around nine or 10 years old: they are Koichi and Ryu, played by real-life brothers Koki and Ohshirô Maeda, from whom the director gets terrifically natural and relaxed performances. Their mum and dad have broken up; Nozomi (Nene Ohtsuka) has returned to live with her parents and taken a demeaning supermarket job in her hometown of Kagoshima, within sight of the Sakura-jima volcano, which, with eerie calm, like a figure in a painting, is in a state of silent eruption on the distant skyline. It deposits a fine film of ash over everything, which the city-dwellers must continually clean away. Koreeda does not belabour the metaphorical quality of this volcano, or the Pompei-snapshot of ordinariness he himself records. Meanwhile the father, Kenji, (Jô Odagiri) stays in Osaka, where he pursues the laid-back slacker lifestyle that so infuriated Nozomi, failing to hold down day jobs while in the evenings trying to be a guitarist in a band.</div>
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The difficult and upsetting thing about this arrangement – never fully discussed by anyone, adult or child – is that the warring parents have taken a child each: withdrawn, thoughtful Koichi has gone to his mother and grandparents; easygoing and smiley Ryu has gone to live with his dad. Clearly, this setup is a way the couple have found of signalling to others and to each other that the breakup is temporary; they are taking a break and sharing the childcare burden equally, though without fully considering how the children will feel about it. But as the days and months go by, Koichi can feel the situation hardening into permanence and, talking with his brother on his mobile, hatches a strange and poignant new plan: he has heard that the two newly built bullet train lines create a supernatural energy at the point where the trains whoosh past each other. If the boys can just contrive to skive off school and make a wish at this focal point, their happiness can be restored.</div>
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Much of the richness and fascination consists in showing how everyone's lives are just rolling along – and in showing how there are other lives and other stories developing in parallel to the main event and beginning to mean just as much. One of Koichi's friends has developed a crush on his teacher and steals her bicycle bell; Koichi's grandfather, who is trying to market his own brand of sweets, finds a new ally in Koichi himself, who is willing to taste them and share his opinions. One of Ryu's friends is a child actor getting work on ads and TV shows, and we see her mother, a failed actress, becoming restive and resentful. These narratives are branching out unobtrusively, but with quiet purpose and definition.</div>
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Since his fascinating feature breakthrough, <i>Afterlife</i>, in 1998, Koreeda has established himself as a supremely intelligent and valuable film-maker: <i>I Wish</i> is the moving and deeply satisfying work of a director who just keeps on getting better. – <i>Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian</i></div>
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David Bosschaerthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13786738766478890804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3399742891742013690.post-67127581230085050692013-01-01T13:37:00.000-08:002013-01-01T13:45:32.180-08:00Spring Season 2013All films start at 8.30 pm in the Skerries Sailing Club.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: x-large;"><i>Wednesday January 23</i> – The Soul of Flies</span></b><br />
<i>El alma de las moscas</i><br />
Dir: Jonathan Cenzual Burley, Spain 2012, 80mins Cert: Club<br />
Starring: Jonathon Cenzual Burley, Andrea Calabrese and Feliz Cenzual<br />
Language: Spanish<br />
Trailer: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaJWFBJ-HNI">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaJWFBJ-HNI</a><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPT8hLOHnNfxepkTUjrIf0aKBhoTgKsuJmuaJI8dn7tPq6y9GlWcCR3KDb7TN7H8_8tPmBaEN5jMxHdfr_q2TJoVmS4yJSr-66U3LHUG2TDhuorXQOKRBI3dJ4zahRo2WIFn8uJvzEpgE/s1600/flies_1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPT8hLOHnNfxepkTUjrIf0aKBhoTgKsuJmuaJI8dn7tPq6y9GlWcCR3KDb7TN7H8_8tPmBaEN5jMxHdfr_q2TJoVmS4yJSr-66U3LHUG2TDhuorXQOKRBI3dJ4zahRo2WIFn8uJvzEpgE/s320/flies_1.jpg" width="320" /></a>Nero and Miguel are two brothers who never met but are forced into an existential journey to the funeral of their father, whom they never knew. Their fantastical tale pays tribute to memories of Samuel Beckett’s play Waiting For Godot, and their humorous romp through the countryside of Spain bows to the opposites-attract camaraderie of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Along their voyage, they meet up with a cast of characters who act as guideposts in the brothers' journey to the meaning of life. The two men befriend a narcoleptic man looking for acceptance, a beautiful woman who throws watermelons, Nero's dream girl in a bed of sunflowers, and the ghost of their father who expounds on the secrets to enjoying life. For The Soul of Flies, Jonathan Cenzual Burley directed and shot his own script using only one camera, masterfully balancing the incredible scenery with this amusing and entertaining story about life's passage and the strangers we depend on along the way. - <i>Cleveland International Film Festival 2012</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Wednesday February 6</i> </b>–<b> Take this Waltz</b></span><br />
Dir: Sarah Poly Canada 2012 116mins Cert:16<br />
Starring: Michelle Williams, Seth Rogen and Sarah Silverman<br />
Language: English<br />
Trailer: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb-NXeR1upo">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb-NXeR1upo</a><br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9S2pJPbJUdRle2pkQvIe9TyIySXv7xyFy8E6ZizsIs_ygnOSMH2_Bt8qLJK2M2NGOQu433hPgjj_yLai8M4mopPfxAWI3AN3pHVesPYw3LEwlpo9kWfqNQZ_G7N_WHrEXEg-m2RWJQVQ/s1600/waltz.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="266" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9S2pJPbJUdRle2pkQvIe9TyIySXv7xyFy8E6ZizsIs_ygnOSMH2_Bt8qLJK2M2NGOQu433hPgjj_yLai8M4mopPfxAWI3AN3pHVesPYw3LEwlpo9kWfqNQZ_G7N_WHrEXEg-m2RWJQVQ/s400/waltz.jpg" width="400" /></a>Margot (Michelle Williams) and Lou (Seth Rogen) are a happily married couple living a quiet, comfortable existence. Their marriage is filled with love, companionship, and humor, but after years of being together, they have settled for contentment and security over excitement. Their life is thrown out of order when Margot falls in love with a handsome and charismatic neighbor (Luke Kirby), and she is forced to choose between the comfort of the familiar and the exhilaration of the unknown. - <i>Tribeca Film Festival 2012</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><b>Wednesday February 20</b></i> – <b>The Women on the 6th Floor</b></span><br />
<i>Les femmes du 6ème étage</i><br />
Dir: Phillippe Le Guaye France 2010 100mins Cert: Club<br />
Starring: Fabrice Luchini, Sandrine Kiberlain and Natalia Verbeke<br />
Language: French<br />
Trailer: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vukz985WqOU">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vukz985WqOU</a><br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><b>Wednesday March 6</b></i> – <b>Nostalgia for the Light</b></span><br />
Dir: Patricio Guzmán<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>Chile 2010 90 mins Cert: CLUB<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
Language: Spanish<br />
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><i>Wednesday March 20</i></b> – <b>About Elly</b></span><br />
<i>Darbareye Elly</i><br />
Dir: Asghar Farhadi 2009 Iran 109 mins Cert: CLUB<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
Starring: Golshifteh Farahani, Taraneh Alidoosti, Marila Zare'i, Rana Azadvar, Shahab Hosseini, Saber Abbar<span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span><br />
Language: Persian<br />
Trailer: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HbIRRM-ffc">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6HbIRRM-ffc</a><br />
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With the return of their friend Ahmad from Germany, a group of old college pals (two married couples and a brother and sister, along with three young kids) decide to reunite for a weekend outing by the Caspian Sea. The fun starts right away as they quickly catch on to the plan of lively Sepideh, who has brought along Elly, her daughter's kindergarten teacher, in hopes of setting her up with recently divorced Ahmad. But seemingly trivial lies, which start accumulating from the moment the group arrives at the seashore, suddenly swing round and come back full force when Elly disappears in a troubling incident. - <i>Tribeca Film Festival</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;"><i><b>Wednesday April 10</b></i> – <b>Barbara</b></span><br />
Dir: Christian Petzold Germany 2012 105 mins Cert: 12A<br />
Starring: Nina Hoss, Ronald Zehrfeld, Rainer Bock, Christina Hecke, Claudia Geisler, Peter Weiss, Carolin Haupt<br />
Language: German<br />
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Summer in the GDR in 1980. Barbara, a doctor, has submitted an application to emigrate to the West. She is punished by being posted away from the capital to a hospital in a small town. Jörg, her lover in the West, is busy planning her escape via the Baltic Sea. It’s a waiting game for Barbara. Her new flat, the neighbours, summer and the countryside no longer hold any charms for her. Although she is attentive to her young patients in the department for paediatric surgery under her new boss, André, she is deliberately cool to her colleagues. Her life, she thinks, will begin later.</div>
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André confuses her. First there’s his unshakable faith in her professional abilities, then there’s way he cares, and his winning smile. What makes him cover up for her when she helps Stella, a young runaway? Is he spying on her? Is he in love? Barbara begins to lose her grip on herself, her plans and her heart. The day of her planned escape approaches. After Gespenster (2005) and Yella (2007) this marks Christian Petzold’s third outing in the Berlinale’s Competition programme. His new work once again centres on a woman who seems to drift through life like a phantom. Hers is a life in which the fear of surveillance seems to be firmly embedded in all interpersonal relationships. - <i>Berlin Film Festival 2012</i></div>
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<br />David Bosschaerthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13786738766478890804noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3399742891742013690.post-43173598328370525072012-08-11T13:31:00.001-07:002012-09-20T13:19:05.056-07:00Autumn Season 2012All films start at 8.30 pm in the Skerries Sailing Club.<br />Tickets / membership at the door.<div>
<br /><b style="font-size: x-large;"><i>Wednesday September 26, 2012 </i></b><span style="font-size: large;">–</span><b style="font-size: x-large;"><i> </i>Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best</b><br />
Dir: Ryan O Nan USA 2011 97 mins Cert: CLUB <br />
Starring: Ryan O'Nan, Michael Weston, Arielle Kebbel, Jason Ritter, Wimer Valderrama, Christopher McDonald, Melissa Leo <br />
Language: English <br />
Trailer: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6jI1aPu41E">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6jI1aPu41E</a><br />
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In this musically hilarious quarter-life crisis road movie, rookie writer-director Ryan O’Nan stars as Alex, who’s recently been dumped by his girlfriend and his band and who hates his drab job in a real estate office. Eventually his odd music gigs, including singing to kids while dressed like a moose, cause friction in his office and he loses his job. Jim, a fan of Alex’s music, convinces him to begin a journey across the nation on a battle of the bands tour. While on this bizarre trek they meet the lovely Cassidy, an inexperienced tour manager who will either take them to the next level or break Alex’s heart. </div>
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Filled with great cameos from Jason Ritter, Melissa Leo, Wilmer Valderrama, Andrew McCarthy and others, Brooklyn Brothers Beat The Best celebrates creativity and the healing power of friendship. The songs are so good you’ll be downloading its music onto your phone before the film is over. - <i>James Faust / Dallas International Film Festival </i></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Wednesday October 10, 2012</i> </span></b><span style="font-size: large;">–</span><b><span style="font-size: large;"> Headhunters</span></b><br />
Dir: Morten Tyldum Norway 2011 101 mins Cert: 16 <br />
Starring: Aksel Hennie, Synnøve Macody Lund, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau<br />
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Trailer: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9XNwq2uGnE">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9XNwq2uGnE</a> <br />
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What’s the worst thing that can happen to a movie character? Shot, stabbed, beaten, tortured? How about exiled, chased, shot, impaled, savaged by a pitbull, involved in a tractor crash, chucked off a cliff and forced to hide in 6 feet of human shit? Luckily, it couldn’t happen to a more deserving guy. Tyldum’s deliriously entertaining thriller, based on source material by bestselling Norwegian author, Jo Nesbø, stems from a simple but hugely satisfying idea: serve up an eminently hissable central character, in this case part-time art thief and full-time corporate douchebag Roger (Hennie, who looks like the love child of Steve Buscemi and Rupert Grint). Then sit back and smile as he tangles with the wrong folks and is subjected to the most humiliating indignities the smart, streamlined script can invent. Pure joy. - <i>Tom Huddleston / Time Out London</i></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;"><i>Wednesday October 24, 2012 - </i>the Kid with a Bike</span></b><br />
Dir: Jean-Pierre & Luc Dardenne Belgium 2011 87 mins Cert: 12A <br />
Starring: Thomas Doret, Cécile de France, Jérémie Renier, Fabrizio Rongione <br />
Language: French <br />
Trailer: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JB7iTfrUTbk">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JB7iTfrUTbk</a> <br />
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Eleven year-old Cyril (Doret) tries to find his father, who has abandoned him to a care home, and retrieve his precious bicycle. During the search he clings to hairdresser Samantha (de France) who agrees to foster him at weekends. Yet Cyril won’t give up on his father. Or trouble. </div>
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In outline it sounds trite — a disenfranchised kid is turned around by a kindly stranger — but the Dardennes’ make it so much more. Raw but compassionate, naturalistic but compelling. If you’re looking to get into the Dardennes, this is a great place to start. - Empire Magazine</div>
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<i><b><span style="font-size: large;">Wednesday November 7, 2012 </span></b></i><span style="font-size: large;">–</span><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i> </i>Monsieur Lazhar</span></b><br />
Dir: Phillippe Falardeau Canada 2011 94 mins Cert: 12A <br />
Starring: Mohamed Fellag, Sophie Nélisse, Émilien Néron, Brigitte Poupart, Danielle Proulx <br />
Language: French <br />
Trailer: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQJXX5Th264">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQJXX5Th264</a><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-size: large;">Wednesday November 21, 2012 </span></i></b><span style="font-size: large;">–</span><b><span style="font-size: large;"><i> </i>Breathing</span></b><br />
Dir: Karl Marcovics Austria 2011 94 mins Cert: CLUB <br />
Starring: Thomas Schubert, Karin Lischka, Gerhard Liebmann, Georg Friedrich, Stefan Matousch <br />
Language: German<br />
Trailer: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOAUfOVe4-0">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOAUfOVe4-0</a> <br />
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Roman, is an institutionalised young offender in Vienna, serving time for a violent crime. Parole is a prospect, though without any family or connections, he does not appear to be a prime candidate for reintegration into the community. <br />
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Given the option of a work-release programme, Roman takes up a job in a mortuary, shifting dead bodies. The work is physically and emotionally draining, and his co-workers are unfriendly, though he finds reason to be there when he comes across a body bag holding a woman who shares his surname. It occurs to Roman that this may be the mother who gave him up for adoption, and he begins to explore his past.<br />
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The restrained observational direction and the emotional intensity of the performances, particularly non-actor Thomas Schubert in the lead role, are the marks of a notable film with integrity and weight. - <i>Michael Hayden, BFI London Film Festival, 2011</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Wednesday December 5, 2012 </i></b>–<b><i> </i>Stella Days</b></span><br />
Thaddeus O’ Sullivan Ireland 2011 87 mins Cert: 15A <br />
Starring: Martin Sheen, Stephen Rea, Trystan Gravelle, Marcella Plunkett, Tom Hickey, Amy Huberman <br />
Language: English <br />
Trailer: <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfVtq1WXxEY">http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfVtq1WXxEY</a><br />
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When forced by his Bishop to start a big fund-raising campaign, he attempts to reconcile his passion for film with his duty to the Church through the creation of the Stella Cinema. </div>
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But he faces plenty of opposition: from the Bishop and a number of influential parishioners who see film as a source of moral corruption; from locals; and ultimately from his own crisis of conscience. - <i>Galway Film Fleadh 2011 </i></div>
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