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After a very encouraging 2010/11 season – its ninth –, Wivenhoe Film Club is gearing up for another season of films from around the world. The autumn 2011 programme kicks off on Wednesday 28 September with a Chilean film, The Maid (La Nana), a moving psychological study relieved by humorous episodes and an unexpected dénouement.
If you are feeling befuddled by the global economic meltdown in 2008, our next film, the Oscar-winning documentary Inside Job, will help to set you straight. It reveals how the American financial industry deliberately defrauded ordinary investors, and casts a shocking light on the sometimes cocaine- and sex-fuelled antics of Wall Street traders and others in the industry.
The Lives of Others, made in Germany, won the Oscar for best foreign film of 2007 and more than 60 other international awards. It is an intriguing thriller set in communist East Berlin, where a secret service agent set to spy on a playwright and his actress lover gradually finds himself drawn into their lives and into a conflict between personal integrity and loyalty to the state.
Further scheduled screenings this autumn include the Iranian film A Separation. Our last film before Christmas will be The Way Back, the story of an epic 4,000-mile trek across desert and mountain to India by an internationally and professionally mixed group of Siberian gulag escapees.
All films will be shown on Wednesday evenings at 7.30 pm at the Nottage Institute on Wivenhoe Quay. Please see the Wivenhoe Calendar for dates. As in the past, drinks and themed refreshments will be on offer to stimulate pre- and post-film discussion. The cost of membership remains unchanged at £10 per annum, plus £4 per film, or £6 for guests. New members are welcome. Just turn up on the night to join.