Cinema Obscura Sunday 21st September 2014 The Lunchbox (2013) Cert PG 104 mins Dir: Ritesh Batra (in Hindi & English with English subtitles)
Saajan is a lonely accountant about to retire from his job. Ila is a young wife seeking her husband's attention. Through a rare mix up by the famous "dabbawalas”, a complicated human system that picks up and delivers lunches to men at work in Mumbai, the lunchbox with the delicious food Ila intended for her husband gets delivered to Saajan. Indian Rom-Com with added spice.
Sunday 19th October 2014 About Elly (2009) Cert 12
114 mins
Dir: Asghar Farhadi (in Persian with English subtitles)
A group of middle-class Iranian friends travel to the shores of the Caspian Sea on a three-day vacation. The trip is planned by matchmaker Sepideh who brings along her daughter's kindergarten teacher, Elly, in order to introduce her to Ahmad, a divorced friend, visiting from Germany. Great drama from the director of the highly acclaimed award winner “A Separation”
Sunday 16th November 2014 Joyeux Noel (2005)
Cert 12 116 mins
Dir: Christian Carion (in English, French & German with English subtitles)
On Christmas Eve, 1914, as German, French and Scottish regiments face each other from their trenches, a musical call-and-response turns into an impromptu cease-fire, with the soldiers trading chocolates and champagne, playing soccer, and comparing pictures of their wives. Senior officers on all sides disapprove of this example of “good will to all men” and take action to recommence the war for these troops. Based on true events on the frontline.