Subtitles – Page 6 – Wimbledon Film Club

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.

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.

XXY

Based on a short story by Sergio Bizzio, Puenzo’s first feature film follows the psychological journey that 15 year old intersex Alex (Efron) makes as she struggles to find her sexual and gender identity.

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.

Incendies

Canadian Nawal Marwan has just passed away.

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.

Benda Bilili

Benda Bilili means See Beyond in English and is the name of a Congolese band of homeless disabled and able bodied musicians.

A Separation

Written and directed by Asghar Farhadi, A Separation is a powerful Iranian drama about a middle-class couple who are faced with a difficult decision – to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer’s disease.

The Source

Set in current times in a Muslim “North African or Arabian village”, this comedy-drama film tells the story of the local women who dare to defy tradition.

In the Mood for Love

Kar Wai Wong has strong, nostalgic recollections of his formative years in Hong Kong where, having been born in Shanghai, he grew up from the age of five.

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