03/02/12 – Parked
02/03/12 – Cell 211
30/03/12 – Honey

Newcastle West Film Club
Desmond Complex Gortboy
Newcastle West Co. Limerick
Phone: 087 687 7970


Email:
NCWFilmclub@gmail.com

Special Thanks:
West Limerick Resources, West Limerick Community Development Project, Desmond Complex

All films
7.00
(this includes 1 euro daily
membership)
 *Hearing loop will be provided at all shows
*Subtitles will be available where possible
*All shows subject to change.
*All shows start at 8:00pm

Honey
Bal
30/3/12
Dir: Semih Kaplanoglu
Germany/Turkey 2010 103 min
Starring: Bora Altas, Erdal Besikcioglu, Tülin Özen, Alev Ucarer, Ayse Altay
Language: Turkish

From the complicated relationship between a child and his mother to the story of a
child and his father. The final part of the trilogy arrives at Yusuf’s childhood although
the sense of time and place is deliberately distorted as dream sequences converge
with reality in six-year-old Yusuf’s story. As he goes through the trauma of beginning
school, he refuses to talk and dreams are his only way to communicate. Young
Bora Altaş is remarkable as Yusuf and there is some superlative photography by
Barış Özbiçer. Set in the remote and undeveloped eastern Black Sea region, BAL
is a beautiful meditation on familial love and the mysteries of nature. – 16th London
Turkish Film Festival 2010

Dir: Daniel Monzon
02/03/12
Spain
2009 112 mins
Starring: Carlos Bardem, Luis Tosar, Alberto Ammann, Marta Etura, Felix
Cubero, Antonio Resines, Luis Zahera, Monolo Solo, Joxean Bengoetxea
Language: Spanish
Juan Oliver is knocked unconcious during the prison tour on the day before he
begins his new job as prison officer. He is rushed to the empty cell 211 and left to
come around. Meanwhile, inmates of the high security wing break free and riots
break out. When he awakes he realises he’s trapped and has to pretend to be a new
prisoner in order to survive… Engaging and intense, with striking performances by
the cast, the film won several Goya Awards from the Spanish Academy, including
Best Picture, Director, Actor and Supporting Actress. – London Spanish Film Festival
2010

Parked
03/02/12
Dir: Darragh Byrne
Ireland
2010
90 mins
Cert: 15A
Starring: Colm Meaney, Colin Morgan, Milka Ahlroth
Language: English
Fred lives a quiet, isolated life in his car, having lost all hope of improving his
situation. That all changes when he forms an unlikely friendship with Cathal, a dope-
smoking 21-year-old with a positive attitude, who becomes his ‘neighbour’. Sharing
laughs, and the hard times too, Fred and Cathal discover the simple, free pleasures
of life.

Cathal is determined to make Fred sort his life out, and it works. Fred modifies
his car, beats the welfare system and makes a friend in Jules, an attractive music
teacher who lives alone nearby. But Fred struggles with his pride to tell Jules about
his ‘home’, and Cathal’s life is threatened by his escalating drug habit. As they grow
closer, the influence of these three outsiders on each other will change their lives.

Warm, funny and touching, Parked is a triumphant story of friendship, hope, and
perseverance. – Galway Film Fleadh 2011

L’Auberge Espagnole (Pot Luck)
Dir: Cedric Klapisch France / Spain 2005 122mins Cert: CLUB

‘Xavier, a French economics student is told Spain will be the next hot territory to watch in his field. He enrols in a special programme which will allow him to study for a year in Barcelona and learn the language and live in a flat already shared by six other European students. By the time Xavier returns to Paris he is predictably wiser in the ways of the world, having learned much about female sensibilities from his lesbian roommate, and later practising his new-found knowledge in an affair with a neurologist’s wife. He is also in full communion with his fellow lodgers, convinced that as important as separate identities may be, they are all alike, facing a common future.’
Even better you can check out a trailer for the film
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AsvJFtUDfl0

http://youtu.be/AsvJFtUDfl0

Hope to see you there!

“Get Low” * 7/10/11
The whole town is surprised when backwoods recluse Felix makes a rare trip into town to arrange his own funeral. Not only are they all invited, but the event is to take place before he has actually passed away. His only friend Maddie is shocked to hear his plans, whilst opportunistic funeral director is quick to grasp the financial implications financial implications.

“My Afternoons With Marguerite” * 4/11/11
This charming comedy looks at the unlikely bond between the illiterate Germain and the 95-year-old woman Margueritte, whom he meets on a park bench in a small French town. Germain’s rocky relationship with his aging mother and his lack of education are formidible hurdles, but he has a hunger for knowledge that the cultured and articulate Margueritte is eager to feed. In French with English Subtitles

“Oranges and Sunshine” * 2/12/11
Oranges and Sunshine tells the story of Margaret Humphreys, a social worker from Nottingham, who uncovered: the organized deportation of children from the United Kingdom to Australia. Almost single-handedly, against overwhelming odds and with little regard for her own well-being, Margaret reunited thousands of families, brought authorities to account and worldwide attention to an extraordinary miscarriage of justice.

NCW Film club

Newcastle West Film Club
Desmond Complex, Gortboy, Newcastle West
Co. Limerick, Phone:  087 687 7970
Email: NCWFilmclub@gmail.com

www.ncwfilmclub.wordpress.com

All films 7.00
(this includes 1 euro daily membership)

Hearing loop will be provided at all shows, Subtitles provided where possible
All shows subject to change.
All films start at 8:00pm

London River
Director: Arched Bouchareb
UK 2009 88min
01/03/11 8:00pm-this is an error. The film will screen on 4/03/2011. Apologies for any confusion caused.

Heartbreaker
Director: Pascal Chammies
France 2010 104min
01/04/11 8:00pm

All films 7.00
(this includes 1 euro daily membership)
Subtitles and a hearing loop will be provided at all shows.
All shows subject to change.

Newcastle West Film Club
Despond Complex, Gortboy, Newcastle West
Phone: 087.687.7970

Special Thanks:
West Limerick Resources,
West Limerick Community
Development Project,
Desmond Complex
Access Cinema

Pascal Chaumeil makes a fantastic feature debut with the irresistible high-concept romantic comedy Heartbreaker, starring some of France’s most acclaimed stars, Romain Duris (The Beat That My Heart Skipped, TFF ’05) and César Award winner Vanessa Paradis (Girl on the Bridge). Alex (Duris), his sister (Julie Ferrier), and her husband (François Damiens) have a budding young business: They break hearts for a living. More specifically, they are hired to split up couples who don’t realize that they’re just not meant for one another. Who hires them? Concerned friends or over-protective family members keep them busy. But the handsome and charming Alex and his team have met the toughest couple yet, and their undefeated record—not to mention a huge payday—hangs in the balance. The mark is Juliette (Paradis), a happily engaged no-nonsense woman about to be hitched to the perfect guy. With their schemes having little effect on the impenetrable Juliette, the clock is ticking to her wedding day….

Shot in the glamour and whimsy of Monte Carlo, this charming and unique romantic comedy will have audiences buckling with laughter. Chaumeil beautifully illustrates that love and laughter are the best universal languages. – Genna Terranova / Tribeca Film Festival 2010

Cities push strangers together, at times tragically, as in the London bombings of July 7, 2005. As hundreds went missing in the confusion of the aftermath, family and friends posted flyers all over the city with pictures of the loved ones they sought. London River moves surely toward that heartbreaking moment, but it begins on the peaceful isle of Guernsey.

Brenda Blethyn plays Mrs. Sommers, a farming woman with a simple rural routine. When her regular calls to her city-dwelling daughter go unanswered, she crosses the English Channel into the throng of north London. At first, news of the terror attacks are mere background noise to her, but as she continues to search fruitlessly for her daughter, and the unfamiliarity of her daughter’s polyglot, predominately Muslim neighbourhood begins to unsettle her, fear sets in.

At the same time, Ousmane (Sotigui Kouyaté has travelled from rural France to London to search for his son, also missing since the attacks. An African farm worker, he is equally at sea in the city. Ousmane and Elisabeth meet by chance, but it soon dawns on them that his son and her daughter were roommates, and maybe more.

Rachid Bouchareb, whose last film was the Second World War epic Indigènes, directs this more intimate story with frank tenderness. The film gathers great emotion as these two parents search for their missing children in a traumatized city, but it does so without a hint of false sentiment. Bouchareb’s camera is especially attentive to how worry and loss play on the faces of his actors, with Blethyn giving her best performance since Mike Leigh’s Secrets and Lies and the great Malian actor Kouyaté contrasting her quivering concern with grave calm.

Even as Bouchareb shows two strangers responding to the horror that brought them together, his portrait of London offers surprising hope. This is a city where the everyday collisions of cultures produce not only conflict but possibility. – Cameron Bailey / Toronto International Film Festival 2009

The polished rooms of a Milanese villa ignite with anxious activity as the wealthy industrial family, the Recchis, prepare to celebrate the birthday of their patriarch. It is an occasion designed to ensconce family traditions—the handsome grandson, Edoardo, introduces his new girlfriend; his sister presents another piece of her artwork to her grandfather; and the grandfather, knowing this is his last birthday, names the successor to his empire. As the refined familial machinations unfold, the woman of the house, Emma Recchi (Swinton), skates along the tight seams of the family, exuding elegance and uncertain turbulence. Change is like a fog at sea that quickly consumes the land.

A feast for the senses, Luca Guadagnino’s magnificent film I Am Love possesses a vibrant and formally irreverent style that luminously articulates its themes of passion and constraint. Swinton turns in a stunning performance as the central muse of a tale about the irresistible draw of forbidden passion and the bittersweet victory of liberation from the constrictions of wealth and power. – 2009 Sundance Film Festival Programme