COCO BEFORE CHANEL (Coco Avant Chanel) (12A)
Monday 25 January 2010

Director: Anne Fontaine. France 2009. 110 minutes. In French with English subtitles.
Starring: Audrey Tautou, Benoit Poelvoorde, Alessandro Nivola and Emmanuelle Devos.

Coco Chanel, the fashion designer, began life as plain Gabrielle. The story of her ascent from orphanage to couturier is told in this handsome film set in the France of the early twentieth century. Audrey Tautou, best known from AMELIE, is fascinating in the title role.

THE AFRICAN QUEEN (U)
Monday 22 February 2010

Director: John Huston. US/UK 1951. 103 minutes.
Starring: Katharine Hepburn and Humphrey Bogart.

East Africa 1915. Bogart plays a disreputable river trader with a fondness for gin. Hepburn a prim missionary who accepts a lift downriver to escape the Germans. Both stars are on top form, aided by a witty script and magnificent location photography. Full of adventure, comedy and humanity, this is a film to see again and again.

MID-AUGUST LUNCH (Pranzo Di Ferragosto) (U)
Monday 29 March 2010

Director: Gianni di Gregorio. Italy 2008. 75 minutes. In Italian with English subtitles.
Cast: Alfonso Santagata, Gianni di Gregorio, Grazia Cesarini Sforza, Maria Cali, Marina
Cacciotti and Valeria de Franciscis.

Kind-hearted comedy in which first time director Di Gregorio plays a bachelor living in down-at-heel gentility with his 93-year-old mother in Rome. A couple of creditors call in favours, offering to cut his debts if he looks after their mothers for the Bank Holiday weekend. ‘A delightful and witty homage to older people.’ Philip French Observer

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