Monday, September 07, 2009

Autumn Opening

Soon, the moment you've all been waiting for! Yes, it's Sunday afternoon: wine/juice/entertainment at 4.15 and the film at 5. We hope you've all had an enjoyable summer - well, June, at least - and that you're fit and rarin' to go on the film front.

Our opening film is Home, as you doubtless know by now, and here's the beginning of Edinburgh Filmhouse's description: 'Described by director Ursula Meier as "a road movie in reverse", Home is an assured and unsettling drama in the Michael Haneke mould. Marthe (Isabelle Huppert) and Michel (Olivier Gourmet) lead a happily isolated life with their kids on the edge of an abandoned motorway. Relishing their distance from the rest of society, the clan stage makeshift hockey matches, sunbathe in deckchairs near the road, and hold picnics in their extended backyard. However, when the motorway is reopened, it's only a matter of time before their secluded idyll is disrupted...' The film has won awards on the cinematography and acting fronts (almost inevitable, with Agnès Godard and Isabelle Huppert involved) and there are some nice tributes to first-time director Ursula Meier. The Daily Telegraph critic said: 'Sometimes eerie, at other times playful and witty, it explores themes of modernity and primitivism without ever being heavy-handed. And as a portrait of a family under siege, it's as unsettling as it is sensual.'

Don't forget you can renew your membership during the week at the Alhambra or the Necessary Angel and if you can do so, it would be greatly appreciated and help keep things moving smoothly on Sunday.