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A Pig’s Tale
When swine fever infects the Haitian black pig, American Aid steps in to help. The Americans set up a programme to eradicate the black pig population, both diseased and healthy animals. To help further the USA introduced huge American pigs, which as local people complained, needed better living conditions than Haitian people were used to.
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The Class
The leading actor in The Class, Bégaudeau, is a man of many parts novelist, actor, screenplay writer and former teacher. The film is loosely based on a Bégaudeau’s fictionalised account of his experience as an idealistic, novice teacher. Director, Cantet, whose parents were teachers, workshopped the script with Bégaudeau and a group of teenage pupils
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I’ve Loved You So Long
In Claudel’s story of estrangement from society, Juliette (Scott Thomas) has served a term in prison, we can guess this much from her institutionalised appearance in the opening sequences. Her younger sister Lea, (Zylberstein), offers her refuge as she makes her first steps in the outside world, yet they have not seen each other for
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Sequins Soca and Sweat
Sequins, Soca and Sweat, is the debut documentary by award-winning filmmaker Stephen Rudder. The film follows six Mas camps in the weeks leading up to Notting Hill Carnival and captures the unique atmosphere of camp life. It gives insight into the spectrum of participants ranging from the originators of the carnival tradition to the progressive
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Man On Wire
Early on an August morning in 1974, Philippe Petit, a French street performer and wire-walker focused the attention of New Yorkers as he crossed back and forth on a high wire strung 1350 feet up between the rooftops of the Twin Towers. Using contemporary interviews, archival footage and dramatic reconstructions the film tells the story
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35 Shots of Rum
Widowed father Lionel (Descas) lives with his adult daughter Josephine (Diop). He knows that their tranquil, mutually supportive life cannot last, she must find her own way in the world. The stability and comfort of their relationship in a drear Paris suburb is a magnet for family friend Gabrielle (Dogue) and neighbour Noe (Colin). Will
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Conversations with My Gardener
A disillusioned Parisian artist (Auteuil – Jean de Florette 1987, La Fille Sur Le Pont 2000, Cache 2007) facing divorce, returns to his childhood home in rural France. There he hires his former schoolmate as a gardener (Darroussin – Feux Rouges 2004, Le Pressentiment 2006). What follows is a quintessentially French film consisting of conversations
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Onegin
In early nineteenth century Russia, a young aristocrat, Onegin (Ralph Fiennes), disaffected by life and bored with salons and balls of St Petersburg society, goes to the countryside to take up the estate he has inherited from his uncle. There, through his friend Lensky (Toby Stephens), he meets Tatyana (Liv Tyler). Deeply attracted to the
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Good Hair
Chris Rock has two daughters. Horrified when one asks Daddy, why don’t I have good hair, he sets out to discover the meaning of good hair to black American women. In this award-winning documentary Rock visits the Bronner Brothers Annual Hair Contest in Atlanta, flies to Hollywood and India to find out about the financial
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Departures
In 2009 this moving but often humorous film cleaned up at the Japanese Academy Awards and won Japan the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar. Masahiro Motoki (Longest Night in Shanghai, 2007, Bird People in China, 1998) won several Best Actor awards for his outstanding performance as an unemployed cellist who moves with his wife from
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