PRESS RELEASE
DANISH DRAMA “IN A BETTER WORLD” SCREENS 20TH MARCH
Directed by Susanne Bier, the film tells the story of Anton, a doctor who commutes between his home in an idyllic town in Denmark, and his work at an African refugee camp. In these two very different worlds, he and his family are faced with conflicts that lead them to difficult choices between revenge and forgiveness. Anton and his wife Marianne, who have two young sons, are separated and struggling with the possibility of divorce. Their older, ten-year-old son Elias is being bullied at school, until he is defended by Christian, a new boy who has just moved from London with his father, Claus. Christian‟s mother recently lost her battle with cancer, and Christian is greatly troubled by her death. Elias and Christian quickly form a strong bond, but when Christian involves Elias in a dangerous act of revenge with potentially tragic consequences, their friendship is tested and lives are put in danger. Ultimately, it is their parents who are left to help them come to terms with the complexity of human emotions, pain and empathy.
Critic Lisa Mullen commented in “Sight and Sound” magazine, “An attempt to grapple with the nuances of good and evil and examine the limitations of virtue in the face of pure emotion”.
The Film Club will be holding its Annual General Meeting at 6.45 pm, followed by a short film at 7.30 and then “In a Better World” after a break for refreshments.  Admission is free for members and membership is obtainable at the door.  Enquiries phone President Imelda Carson on 8564 8225.

​The “Barbarian Invasions” is a 2003 French-Canadian film directed by Denys Arcand which won the Academy Award for best Foreign Language film and Marie-Josée won the Cannes Best Actress Award. It tells the story of 50-something Montreal college professor, Remy, who learns that he is dying of liver cancer. He decides to make amends by meeting his friends and family before he dies. He first tries to make peace with his ex-wife Louise, who asks their estranged son Sebastian, a successful businessman living in London, to come home. Sebastian makes the impossible happen, using his contacts and disrupting the entire Canadian system in every way possible to help his father fight his terminal illness to the bitter end, while he also tries to reunite his former friends, Pierre, Alain, Dominique, Diane, and Claude to see their old friend before he passes on.
As critic Lisa Nesselsen said in “Variety” magazine “A full-bodied, funny and gloriously unpretentious ode to family, friendship and the meaning of life.”

​“the Barbarian Invasions” will screen at the Faith College Wine Centre on Friday 8th November at 7.30 pm with a short film and then the main feature after a break for refreshments. Admission is free for Film Club Members and membership is obtainable at the door.

​“The Salesman” was winner of 2016’s Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film and begins with an earthquake. Nobody is hurt but it's big enough to force Tehran high school teacher Emad (Shahab Hosseini) and his wife, Rana (Taraneh Alidoosti) out of their Tehran apartment.
 
The solution to their predicament comes from a friend. He's a fellow cast member of the amateur production of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman, in which they're both starring, and he offers them a flat that he owns. But on inspection, they discover it hasn't been emptied of the former tenant's possessions. Don't worry, they're told. She'll soon be along to collect them.
 
For Rana and Emad, things start unravelling soon after they make their move. Alone in the new apartment one night, Rana answers the security bell downstairs, thinking it's Emad, and goes into the shower, leaving the door open. When he finally arrives, she's unconscious on the bathroom floor with a head wound. From this point on, he becomes obsessed with the need to track down her attacker.  It's a consummate whodunit moving inexorably towards a slow-burning climax with a twist at the end, but what matters most are the things left unsaid.

​“The Salesman” will screen on Friday 16th August at 7.30 pm at the Faith College Wine Centre.  Entry is free for members and membership is obtainable at the door.  For further information, ring President Imelda Carson on 8564 8225.

​The story is of the paranoia which grips a bourgeois European family when a series of menacing videotapes begin turning up on their doorstep in director Michael Haneke's dark drama. From the outside, Georges (Daniel Auteuil), Anne (Juliette Binoche), and son Pierrot (Lester Makedonsky) are the typical middle-class European family, but when a series of mysterious videotapes accompanied by morbid drawings reveal that someone has been monitoring their house, Georges begins to suspect that his past has come back to haunt him. It was during France's occupation of Algeria that Georges wronged a young Algerian boy named Majid (Maurice Bénichou), and as the enraged father and husband begins tracking down his former friend, the line between victim and predator becomes increasingly blurred.

​Venue: “Caché” will screen at the Faith College Wine Centre on Friday 21st June, commencing with a short movie at 7.30 pm, a break for refreshments and then the main feature.  Admittance is free for members of the Barossa Film Club and membership is obtainable at the door.  For enquiries ring President Imelda Carson on 8564 8225.