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Transamerica
Transamerica’s Bree, (Huffman), is a pre-operative transsexual who is forced to take a journey across America to bail out a son she didn’t know shed fathered. This multi-award winning film is director/writer Duncan Tucker’s first feature. He picks a tricky topic for his comedy drama. Transgender issues are not inherently funny, but critics, audiences and…
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Souzhou River
Suzhou River mixes love story and crime genres in a modern film noir. Set in the urban decay of post-industrial Shanghai the film is peopled with gangsters, street hustlers and nightclub denizens. In a plot that twists and turns the narrator keeps us guessing whether the central story is about his love for Meimei (Xun…
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Once
In this Oscar-winning film, Guy (Hansard) is a Dublin street musician. His music attracts an immigrant Girl (Irglova). She’s a musician too and plays for him on display piano in a music store. He repairs vacuum cleaners for a day job she’s got a Hoover that needs mending. Kismet. But she’s also got a canny…
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Caramel
Caramel delightfully weaves together a comedy about the daily lives of five Lebanese women. Each woman has a romantic problem and they play out their dramas against the backdrop of Layal’s (Nadine Labaki) Beirut beauty salon. Will one resolve a relationship with a married man, will another marry while trying to cover up her past,…
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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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Slumdog Millionaire
Based on Vikas Swarup’s novel Q and A, Slumdog Millionaire tells the story of an orphan (Jamal) from the slums of Mumbai, a petty thief, imposter and survivor. At twenty he finds himself on a TV quiz show – he answers every question correctly and becomes a national hero. But is he a cheat? The…
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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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Let The Right One In
Oskar (Hedebrant) is a 12 year old loner, bullied at school he is full of suppressed rage. Eli moves in next door – she’s a bit of a misfit too and they become friends. She encourages Oskar to stand up to the bullies. As the two young people find solace in each other Oskar begins…
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Jules et Jim
To mark the 25 anniversary of Truffaut’s death, WFC brings you Truffaut’s third film, recognised now and then as a defining film of French New Wave cinema. The story tells of a menage a trois. Two young writers, Jules (Werner), an Austrian, and Jim (Serre), a Frenchman, live a decadent lifestyle in pre WWI Europe…
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Chromophobia
In this start-studded film, interweaving stories of rich and privileged people in Blairite Britain, where anything can be bought and sold, combine to form a dark drama of dilemmas of responsibility, corruption and exploitation. Investigative journalist (Ben Chaplin) chances upon a career-making story of his lawyer friend’s (Damian Lewis) corruption. Will he tell And what…
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