The Model Cinema in Partnership with Sligo Film Society

November 21
Wadjda
sponsored by Raffertys Bar &
Silver Apple Restaurant
Dir: Haifaa Al-Mansour
Saudi Arabia
2012
98 mins
Cert: PG
Starring: Waad Mohammed, Reem Abdullah, Ahd, Sultan Al
Assaf
Language: Arabic
First full-length feature film shot inside Saudi Arabia. It tells the story of 10-year-old Wadjda
living in a suburb of Riyadh. After a fight with her friend Abdullah, she sees a beautiful
green bicycle. She wants it desperately so she can beat Abdullah in a race. But Wadjda's
mother won't allow it, fearing repercussions from a society that sees bicycles as dangerous
to a girl's virtue. Wadjda decides to raise the money herself. The Quran competition isn't
going to be easy, especially for a troublemaker like Wadjda.
Winner-CICAE Award, Venice Film Festival 2012
December 5
The Artist and The Model, El artista y la modelo
Dir: Fernando Trueba
Spain
2012
104 mins
Cert: TBC
Starring: Jean Rochefort, Aida Folch, Claudia Cardinale,
Gotz Otto, Chus Lampreave
Language: Spanish/French
An octogenarian artist, Marc (Jean Rochefort) a man deeply and genuinely enchanted with
women, the subjects of all his works is in a slump. Into his world steps Merce, a waiflike
young beauty whom his ever-smiling and benevolent wife Léa (Claudia Cardinale) sees
wandering in town and hires to be her husband’s model. A true innocent, Merce steps into
the alternate universe of the artist with nonchalance and quickly adapts to the “strange job
of being naked all day, doing nothing,” as she calls it. Winner-Best Director, San Sebastian
Film Festival 2012
December 12
The Great BeautyGrande Bellezza, La
Dir: Paolo Sorrentino
Italy
2013
142 mins
Cert: 15A
Starring: Toni Servillo, Carlo Verdone, Sabrina Ferilli
Language: Italian
Jep Gambardella, 65, indolent and disenchanted, his eyes permanently imbued with gin and
tonic, watches a parade of hollow, doomed, powerful yet depressed humanity. A moral
lifelessness enough to make one’s head spin. And in the background, Rome in summer.
Splendid and indifferent, like a dead diva. - Cannes Film Festival 2013
September 26
Come As You Are
October 3
Shun Li and The Poet
October 10
Before Midnight
October 17
Easy Money
October 24
Renoir
October 31
Kuma
November 7
Thérèse Desqueyroux
November 14
The Act of Killing
November 21
Wadjda
December 5
The Artist and The Model
December 12
The Great Beauty
December 19
Blancanieves
December 19
Blancanieves
Dir: Pablo Berger
Spain, France
2012
104 mins
Cert: CLUB
Starring: Maribel Verdu, Ángela Molina, Daniel Giménez Cacho
Language: Silent
In this unique and unforgettable tribute to European silent
films, the fairy tale of Snow White is transposed with great effect into the world of
bullfighting in 1920s Spain. Beautifully shot in black and white and featuring fabulous
flamenco music, a very evil stepmother, and a band of bullfighting dwarves, Blancanieves is
a magical retelling of a classic story.
Winner - Best Film, Bucharest International Film Festival 2012
Winner - Special Jury Prize, Jameson Dublin International Film Festival 2013
The Model Cinema in
Partnership with Sligo Film Society
Autumn/Winter Programme 2013
Venue: The Model Sligo
Time: 8.00pm
September 26
Shun Li and The Poet
Dir: Geoffrey Enthoven
Belgium
2011
115 mins
Cert: 15A
Starring: Robrecht Vanden Thoren, Gilles De Schryver, Tom
Audenaert, Isabelle De Hertogh
Language: Dutch, French
Dir: Gilles Bourdos
France
2012
111 mins
Cert: Club
Starring: Michel Bouquet, Christa Theret, Vincent
Rottiers, Thomas Doret, Romane Bohringer
Language: French
sponsored by Hargadons
Io sono Li
October 31
sponsored by The Cat and The Moon
Dir: Umat Dag
Austria
2012
93 mins
Cert: Club
Starring: Nihal Koldas, Begüm Akkaya, Vedat Erincin,
Murathan Muslu, Alev Irmak
Language: German, Turkish
Shun Li works as a barmaid to enable her young son to
come to Italy. She develops a friendship with a Slavic fisherman, Bepi but, their friendship
upsets both the Chinese and native communities. A poignant and poetic account of the
destructive power of prejudice and friendship.
Winner – Best First Feature, BFI London Film Festival 2012 Winner – LUX Prize 2012
October 10
Renoir tormented by the loss of his wife, the pains of
arthritic old age and the news that his son, Jean, has been wounded in action is filled with a
new, unexpected energy when a young girl enters his world. Jean, too, falls under the spell
of the new, redheaded star in the Renoir firmament and gradually a filmmaker begins to
grow.
Kuma
Dir: Andrea Segre
Italy
2011
100 mins
Cert: CLUB
Starring: Zhao Tao, Rade Serbedzija, Marco Paolini
Language: Italian
Under the auspices of a more age-appropriate marriage to his handsome son, a stately
Viennese patriarch brings Ayse, a pretty teenaged girl from the Turkish countryside, to live
with him as a second wife. A special friendship develops between Ayse and Fatma, the first
wife who is suffering from cancer and appreciates both the help and the companionship.
Soon, however, an unexpected twist of fate puts this relationship to the test. - Chicago Film
Festival 2012. Winner - Audience Award, Lecce Film Festival of European Cinema
November 7
sponsored by Tir Na Nóg
Dir: Richard Linklater
USA
108 mins
Cert: 15A
Starring: Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy
Language: English
Easy Money
Dir: Claude Miller
France
2012
110 mins
Cert: 12A
Starring: Audrey Tautou, Gilles Lellouche, Anaïs
Demoustier, Catherine Arditi
Language: French
2012
They’re still the same romantic, articulate and gorgeous
couple that met on a train in Linklater’s Before Sunrise
(1995), Nearly 20 years on, Jesse and Céline are approaching middle age and facing
questions of commitment, family and the staying power of love. Before Midnight, with a
funny and touching screenplay is that rare sequel to a sequel that not only delivers the
charm and energy of its antecedents but adds layers of poignancy, standing firmly on its
own as a mature observation of love’s pleasures and discontents.
San Francisco International Film Festival 2013
sponsored by Mullaneys Solicitors
Snabba Cash
Dir: Daniel Espinosa
Sweden
2011
124 mins
Cert: 15A
Starring: Joel Kinnaman, Matias Padin Varela, Dragomir Mrsic,
Lisa Henni, Deja Cukic, Annika Whittembury, Lea Stojanov,
Fares Fares
Language: Swedish
Safe House director Daniel Espinosa first grabbed attention with this violent, vice-like
thriller based on the bestselling novel by criminal defence attorney Jens Lapidus. Praised
for its dynamic storytelling and tangy evocation of a multicultural Sweden, it finds its focus
in handsome economics student JW, a man who has dipped his toes in the drug trade and
discovered that he is now swimming with sharks. Jameson Dublin International Film Festival
2013
sponsored by Connollys Bar
Thérèse Desqueyroux
Before Midnight
October 17
sponsored by Rhatigan Architects
Renoir
This is a loosely true story of three disabled men who embark on a trip to Spain in order to
lose their virginity at a “specialist” brothel. The subject matter is ripe for crass gags or
patronising sentimentality but succumbs to neither.
Winner - Best Film, Audience Award, Montreal World Film Festival 2012
Winner - Audience Award, Karlovy Vary, 2012
October 3
October 24
sponsored by Cosgroves Delicatessen
Come As You Are Hasta La Vista
In the Landes region of France, marriages are arranged to merge land parcels and unite
families. Young Thérèse Larroque becomes Mrs. Desqueyroux. But her avant-garde ideas
clash with local conventions. In order to break free from the fate imposed upon her and live
a full life, she will resort to tragically extreme measures... - Cannes Film Festival
November 14
sponsored by Mullaneys Solicitors
The Act Of Killing
Dir: Joshua Oppenheimer Indonesia, UK
115 mins
Cert: CLUB
Language: Indonesian, English
2012
The Act of Killing explores a chapter of Indonesia's history
by enlisting a group of former killers, including
Indonesian paramilitary leader Anwar Congo, to re-enact
their lives in the style of the films they love. But Anwar's pride gradually gives way to
regret.
Winner – Audience Award, Berlinale International Film Festival, Panorama.
Membership Season €80 Concession €60
Attendance at a single Screening €8 Concession €6
Membership available before each screening
(Including membership and subject t o availability)
Committee Members of Sligo Film Society:
Chairperson: Justin McCarthy Secretary: Bairbre Ferguson,
Treasurer: Pat Doherty, PRO: Jack Lynch, Dave Gunne, Hans Wieland, John Gault