Films for this season
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This is also the Club’s AGM, where there will be an opportunity to socialise with other club members before a brief AGM. The film Hard Truths will follow. Pansy (Marianne Jean-Baptiste) is tormented by anger and depression, quick to take offence and quick to fly off the handle. She criticises her family so relentlessly that neither bothers to argue with her. She picks fights with strangers and sales clerks and enunciates all wrongs to all around her, especially to her cheerful sister Chantal, who, despite this, might be the only person still capable of sympathising with her.
Year: 2024 (UK 2025)
Certificate: 12A
Language: English
Director: Mike Leigh
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Length: 97 minutes
Jazz and decolonization are entwined in this rewriting of the Cold War episode that led musicians Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach to crash the UN Security Council in protest against the murder in 1961 of Patrice Lumumba, the leader of the newly decolonised Congo. African politics and American jazz collide in a historical illumination of the political machinations behind his assassination.
Year: 2024
Certificate: 12A
Language: Dutch, English
Director: Johan Grimonnprez
Genre: Documentary, Music
Length: 150 minutes
Maria Callas (Angelina Jolie), the famed Greek-American soprano, is one of the most iconic performers of the 20th century. The film reimagines her final days in Paris as she reckons with her identity and life, flashing back to moments from her glamorous and tumultuous life in the public eye. The legendary diva hopes for a grand comeback but has caught the unwanted attention of persistent paparazzo.
Year: 2024 (UK 2025)
Certificate: 12A
Language: English, Greek
Director: Pablo Larrain
Genre: Drama, Biography
Length: 124 minutes
A band of thieves of ancient grave goods and archaeological wonders seek their Chimera, the dream of easy wealth. Arthur seeks his Chimera, Benjamina, the woman he lost. To find her, Arthur challenges the invisible, looks everywhere in search of the mythical door to the afterlife. In a journey between the living and the dead, between forests and cities, between celebrations and solitudes, the destinies of these characters entwine.
Year: 2023 (UK 2024)
Certificate: 15
Language: Italian, English
Director: Alice Rohrwacher
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Length: 131 minutes