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Clones Film Festival - Film Club Season
Clones Film Festival is very pleased to invite you to our short season of Film Club movies kicking off on Saturday 13 February 2010 at 8pm in the restored Courthouse, Clones, with Pedro Almodovar’s most recent work ‘Broken Embraces’.
Thanks to Monaghan County Council and the Court Services, the renovation project at the beautiful old Courthouse included sound and projection facilities, enabling us to add to the charm of this grand old building by transforming it into our cinema…
We will show 3 films this season, and, each night, we will follow the movie screening with some wine and nibbles (and perhaps even post-film discussion) in the cosy surroundings of our first home, The Lennard Arms Hotel.
Tickets are 7 euros / 5 euros (concession) at the box office.
So book the babysitter and put the dates in your diary.. the end of the long winter nights is in sight!
The next two films we will screen are:
Saturday 13 March 2010 at 8pm Heart of Fire
Saturday 17 April 2010 at 8pm Rudo y Cursi
In Broken Embraces, Penélope Cruz is radiant and endearingly sympathetic as an aspirant actress drawn into an unhappy relationship with a wealthy, domineering older man (hard-faced José Luis Gomez) and embarking on a secret affair with a film director (Lluis Homer) when she features in his production, Girls with Suitcases. Amusing clips from that movie suggest a risibly soapy spin on Almódovar’s exuberant Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown.
“The movie features a suffering but resilient woman, a downtrodden gay teen, an established film director and screenwriter, and a suffusion of movie references and clips that would keep Tarantino preoccupied. Welcome back to the familiar world of Pedro Almódovar, for what could be a greatest hits compilation of his favourite themes and motifs packaged in a single movie. The film glides between the past decade and the present, and between Madrid and Lanzarote, for a modern film noir, albeit one with a distinctively rich colour scheme.” (Michael Dwyer, Irish Times 22.05.09)
