Occasional Cinema: Pelo Malo – Bad Hair

Date: Wednesday, 24th February 2016
Time: 6:30 pm

Occasional Cinema returns to Blue Sky, showing independent and critically acclaimed films you’re unlikely to have seen in the cinema!    This months film is “Pelo Malo Bad Hair”.  Please note that it’s on WEDNESDAY this month!

Mariana Roncon,  Venezuela/Peru/Argentina/Germany,  2014,  93 minutes, Comedy

Won 11 film festival prizes and 21 nominations.

With two combustible lead performances and a vibrant representation of the high-rise life among Venezuela’s working poor, this is an assured dance through universal themes of poverty, family and sexuality.

An exceptional performance by Samantha Castillo as a single mother struggling to balance childcare with employment in the unforgiving housing projects of Caracas drives this powerful yet playful domestic drama from writer/director Mariana Rondón. Recently widowed, Marta (Castillo) finds herself falling out of love with nine-year-old Junior, the misfit son whose anti-macho obsession with straightening his curly hair provokes anguish and anger about his putative sexuality. While news footage tells of fellow Venezuelans shaving their heads and murdering their mothers as Hugo Chávez’s health fails, Marta and Junior (Samuel Lange, brilliantly cast) undergo their own personal crises in the pressure-cooker environment of a teeming high-rise, a place where otherness is shunned. Contrasting the innocent strains of Henry Stephen’s touchstone song Limón, Limonero with cacophonous urban street sound, Rondón turns a deceptively simple coming-of-age tale into a vibrant treatise upon a raft of disparate issues (fatherless matriarchy, gender stereotyping, social deprivation, physical desire) with authenticity, integrity and, perhaps most impressively, a transcendent sense of levity.
– Observer review

We are not showing Radiator our original choice because of licensing problems. 

As always there will be a two course set themed menu available, with a meat or veggie option and desert. (ADVANCED BOOKING IS ESSENTIAL FOR FOOD, please phone us to let us know your preferences on 01248 355444).

MENU Two Courses £10 – Beef in Tamarind sauce (Seco di Carne con tamarindo) or South American Squash and vegetable ragout, both served with rice.  Dessert – Spiced orange brownie with cinnamon cream

The Occasional Cinema is a not for profit group aiming to bring quality films to North Wales. Lifetime membership is just £5, with entry to the first film free and subsequent films just £3. Members guests are welcome and pay £4