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Programme: 2010-2011

Screenings are on Monday or Tuesday evenings in the Cairn Hotel, Harrogate.
All screenings commence at 7.45pm.

Note that screenings on 6 November, 1 March and 12 April are on Tuesdays.
   

Date / Location Title Origin
Monday, 27 Sept. Micmacs France
Monday, 11 Oct.  Broken Embraces Spain
 Monday, 25 Oct.     The Last Station UK
Tuesday, 16 Nov.   Un Prophète  France
Monday, 6 Dec. Let the Right One In Sweden
Monday, 3 Jan.     Four Lions UK
Monday, 17 Jan.  Tales from the Golden Age Romania
Monday, 7 Feb.  Revanche Austria
Monday, 21 Feb.  After the Wedding Denmark
Tuesday 1 March    A Serious Man USA
Monday 21 March Glorious 39 UK
Monday 4 April The First Day of the Rest of Your Life France
Tuesday, 12 April     (AGM) Just Another Love Story Denmark

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 27 Sept. '10.                   Micmacs

Director:  Jean-Pierre Jeunet, 105 mins, 2009, France.

Starring: Dany Boon, André Dussollie.


Avid movie-watcher and video store clerk Bazil has had his life all but ruined by weapons of war.  When chance reveals the two manufacturers responsible for building the instruments of his destruction, Bazil enlists his faithful gang of wacky friends to construct a complex scheme for revenge.

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 11 Oct. '10.                    Broken Embraces

Director: Pedro Almodóvar, 127 mins, 2009, Spain.

 Starring: Penélope Cruz,  Lluís Homar.

 

A man writes, lives and loves in darkness.  Fourteen years ago, he was in a brutal car crash and lost not only his sight but Lena, the love of his life.  He tells the moving and terrible story, dominated by fatality, jealously, the abuse of power, treachery and a guilt complex.

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 25 Oct. '10.                                The Last Station

Director:  Michael Hoffman, 112 mins, 2009, UK.

Starring: Helen Mirren,  Christopher Plummer.

 

Countess Sofya, wife and muse to Leo Tolstoy, uses every trick of seduction on her husband's loyal disciple, whom she believes was the person responsible for Tolstoy signing a new will that leaves his work and property to the Russian people.

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16 Nov. '10.                                 Un Prophète

Director: Jacques Audiard, 155 mins, 2009, France.

Starring: Tahar Rahim, Niels Arestrup.

 

Condemned to six years in a French prison, a young Arab man appears younger and more fragile than the other convicts but is toughened up to rise through the prison ranks.

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 6 Dec. '10.                                Let the Right One In

Director:  Tomas Alfredson, 115 mins, 2008, Sweden.

Starring: Kåre Hedebrant, Lina Leandersson

 

Oskar, a bullied 12-year old, dreams of revenge.  He falls in love with Eli, a peculiar girl who can't stand the sun or food and can only come into a room if invited.  Eli gives Oskar the strength to hit back and the outcome is both violent and highly romantic.

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 3 Jan. '11.                               Four Lions

Director: Christopher Morris, 101 mins, 2010, UK.

Starring: Benedict Cumberbatch, Preeya Kalidas.

 

Four British jihadists push their abstract dreams of glory to the breaking point.  As the wheels fly off, their competing ideologies clash in a storm of razor-sharp verbal jousting and large-scale set pieces.  While terrorism is about ideology, it can also be about idiots.

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17 Jan. '11.                        Tales from the Golden Age

Directors: Hanno Höfer, Razvan Marculescu, 155 mins, 2009, Romania.

Starring: Diana Cavallioti.

 

An unconventional personal history of the "Golden Age" of the last 15 years of Ceaucescu's regime in Romania, from the perspective of ordinary people.

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7 Feb. '11.                                  Revanche

Director:  Götz Spielmann, 121 mins, 2008, Austria.

Starring: Johannes Krisch, Irina Potapenko .

Ex-con Alex plans one last robbery before fleeing to the South with his girlfriend to start a new life.  But something terrible happens and revenge seems inevitable.

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21 Feb. '11.                            After the Wedding                         

Director: Suzanne Bier, 120 mins, 2006, Denmark.

Starring: Mads Mikkelsen, Neeral Mulchandani.

 

When the orphanage Jacob runs in India is threatened with closure, he receives an unusual offer.  A Danish businessman, Jorgen, offers him a donation of $4 million but with conditions.  Jacob must come to Denmark and attend the wedding of Jorgen's daughter.  The wedding puts Jacob in the dilemma of his life.

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1 March '11.                            A Serious Man                      

Director: Ethan Coen, 106 mins, 2009, USA.

Starring: Michael Stuhlbarg, Richard Kind.

 

In 1967, midwestern Jewish professor Larry Gopnik is a serious and a very put-upon family man.  As he watches his life unravel, Larry seeks meaning from the rabbis of his community.  But God moves in mysterious, and not always pleasant, ways.

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21 March '11.           Glorious 39

Director: , Stephen Poliakoff, 129 mins, 2009, UK.

Starring: Romola Garai, Bill Nighy .

 

On the eve of World War Two, a traditional British family is keen to uphold and preserve its very traditional way of life.  But the eldest daughter stumbles upon dark secrets, uncovering a mysterious tale.

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4 April '11.          The First Day of the Rest of Your Life                              

Director: Rémi Bezançon, 114 mins, 2008, France.

Starring: Jacques Gamblin, Zabou Breitman.


A sprawling, funny, moving drama centered around five keys days in a family's life during a 12-year period.

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12 April '11.    (AGM)             Just Another Love Story   

Director: , Ole Bornedal,100 mins, 2007, Denmark.

Starring: Anders W. Berthelsen, Rebecka Hemse .

 

Father of two Jonas has been worn down by life in the suburbs.  When a victim of a car crash mistakes him for her boyfriend, things take a very dramatic turn as the line between truth and deception is erased.

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