Three siblings return to their childhood paradise in the vineyards to farewell their dying father and sort out the succession of the family property, facing modern threats to traditional winemaking and accumulated debt. Poetic treatment of Jean, Jeremie and Juliette’s idyllic past and challenged present intertwines with an evocative, redolent and detailed experience of grapes and wine: the look, the texture, the smell, the taste! The old ways, dependent on fine sensitivity of timing within the uncertainties of weather, rollick…
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General Admission 121 Mins | Country: Japan | Drama | General Screenings Doors Open 6 pm for Optional Sit-Down Dinner Movie Starts at 7:15 pm Winner of the 2018 Cannes Palme d’Or and directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda, whose Like Father, Like Son and After the Storm, have been screened here. Again he demonstrates insight into family relationships. In this case the family—children and adults—eke out a meagre living by shoplifting. Among other things, the film is a social realist perspective on the underside of affluent modern Japan. When the…
Find out more »A talented teenager with leukaemia needs a blood transfusion to save his life. He and his Jehovah’s Witness family refuse this but under the ‘Children Act’ in the UK, they can be overruled by the state. Emma Thompson plays the sensitive but dispassionate and scrupulous judge who must decide. One complication is that in a few months the boy will turn eighteen and be free to choose. Another is that the judge’s own family life is at breaking point due…
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