Class: 12A – Page 3 – Wimbledon Film Club

Tamara Drewe

Down in Dorset the veneer of bucolic bliss is about to be disrupted by the arrival of Tamara Drewe (Gemma Arterton – Clash of the Titans, The Disappearance of Alice Creed).

Vero (Maria Onetto) is driving home at night when she hits something in her car was it a dog or a child After the incident Vero is transformed from an elegant professional woman with self-agency to a passive state she says little, her face becomes an intrinsically meaningless mask.

Inside Job

The topic of this Oscar-winning documentary affects us all.

The Cove

In a small bay on the Japanese coast near the fishing port of Tajii there is an annual mass slaughter of wild dolphins.

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

Great artists tend to experience intense, emotional, visual recollections of earlier times in their lives, which they feed through their heightened imaginations and their heightened senses of awareness in order to forge their most powerful art.

Senna

The first thing to say about Senna is that you don’t have to know, or care, about driving round and round in circles very fast to enjoy this terrific film.

Le Herisson

Adapted from Muriel Barbery’s international bestseller, The Elegance of the Hedgehog, writer-director Mona Achache’s first film follows three main characters, an 11 year old girl and two eccentric characters in her building.

Las Acacias

New Argentinian cinema emerged after the Second World War with films that focused intently on the realities of Argentinian social and rural life, becoming political with the advent of social unrest in the late sixties and early seventies and succumbing temporarily to the seven years of suppression that followed military takeover in 1976.

Fire In Babylon

There is phenomenal cricket on show, but much more than that.

Surviving Life

Here’s a psychoanalytical comedy of fascinating inventiveness where live action combines with cut-out animation of still photographs to offer a satirical and surrealist take on the weight dreams have on real life.

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Classification: 12A