Occasional Cinema

Date: Wednesday, 23rd March 2016
Time: 6:30 pm

Tangerines

Zaza Urushadze,  Estonia/Georgia,  2013,  87mins,  Drama,  IMDB 8.5

Nominated for Best Foreign Film Oscar. Another 13 wins and 6 nominations.

Touching anti-war story set in Georgia in 1990, about two Estonians embroiled in someone else’s war.

A tremendous, old-fashioned anti-war film, by turns touching, moving and suspenseful. – Peter Bradshaw – Guardian

One of the highlights of the Montreal World Film Festival 2014 this film captures the incoherence and inhumanity of war from the point of view of innocent civilians and dehumanized soldiers. The pace and plot are crisp, compact and conscious-elevating with a spectacular, yet simple screenplay. The cinematography and music match and enhance the emotional and philosophical human drama. The acting from the all-male cast is poignant and powerful in its restraint. Zaza Urushadze’s text comes to life like a play in this sometimes claustrophobic confine which only heightens the inherent tension between the protagonists. The directing balances this with the sad beauty of rural the Abkhazia conflict zone.

Every word counts for so much that you couldn’t cut out one second of the film. It is neither slow nor rushed, neither pro-Georgian nor pro-separatist, neither pro-settlement or pro-exodus… very few people could have made this same movie with this same script without ruining it with political biases like anti-Islam, anti-Russia, anti-Georgian, anti-Caucasian, anti-Communist, anti-separatist sentiment (or pro any of those). This movie is about the people in it and it does it well without the director getting caught up in tit-for-tat, us-vs-them situations.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAh9m2bkgww

A two course meal is available by prior reservation AT LEAST 24 HOURS IN ADVANCE.

Please call the Cafe on 01248 355444.    Two Courses £10

MENU – Pork, paprika and tomato casserole Or 3 bean stew Served with creamy mash and spiced red cabbage.                 Dessert  – Tangerine Cheesecake

You can’t book a seat for the film only, which is on a first come first served basis. If you want a guaranteed seat you must book a meal.  

Occasional Cinema is a film society run by volunteers. Films are shown at the Caban, Brynrefail on the second Wednesday of the month and at the Blue Sky Cafe, Bangor on the fourth Thursday and unless stated otherwise start sometime after 7.30pm. We do not show films during the summer, but there are often summer films at the Caban.

Membership is available on the door for a cost of £5; the first film is free; after this entrance for the film is £3.00.