Kingsbridge Kino

Previous Films

Season:  2021

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Roma

Director : Alfonso Cuarón

Country : Mexico

Release Date : 2018

Duration : 135 mins

Language : Spanish and Mixtec

Subtitles : Yes

WINNER : BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM AT 2019 OSCARS

WINNER : BEST DIRECTOR AT 2019 OSCARS

WINNER : GOLDEN LION AT 2018 VENICE FILM FESTIVAL

On-line discussion. Cleo is one of two domestic workers who help Antonio and Sofía take care of their four children in 1970s Mexico City. Complications soon arise when Antonio suddenly runs away with his mistress and Cleo finds out that she’s pregnant. When Sofía decides to take the kids on vacation, she invites Cleo for a much-needed getaway to clear her mind and bond with the family. Roma finds writer-director Alfonso Cuarón in complete, enthralling command of his visual craft – and telling the most powerfully personal story of his career.

‘Roma’ is thrilling, engrossing, moving and just entirely amazing, an adjectival pileup of wonder. He has reached back into his own childhood to create an intensely personal story.”  (Peter Bradshaw – The Guardian)

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Aurore

Director : Blandine Lenoir

Country : France

Release Date : 2017

Duration : 84 mins

Language : French

Subtitles : Yes

On-line discussion. A French woman hits menopause, discovers she is going to be a grandmother, quits her job as waitress and feels everything going downhill. But then she meets her old love from before she got married, had two daughters and got divorced. Is this a new beginning?

‘Aurore’ gives Agnes Jaoui one of the roles of her life …”  (Paul Byrnes – Sydney Morning Herald)

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The Dig

Director : Simon Stone

Country : UK

Release Date : 2021

Duration : 112 mins

Language : English

Subtitles : No

On-line discussion. On the eve of the Second World War, a wealthy widow (Carey Mulligan) hires an amateur archaeologist (Ralph Fiennes) to excavate the burial mounds on her estate. When they make a historic discovery of a wooden ship from the Dark Ages, the echoes of Britain’s past resonate in the face of its uncertain future. Australian director Simon Stone’s film has an undercurrent of real emotion which sensitively conveys the fragility of lives and time with a rare, old-school honesty.

This bittersweet tale of the unearthing of the Sutton Hoo treasures has gentle charm to spare.”  (Mark Kermode – The Observer)

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Now, Voyager

Director : Irving Rapper

Country : USA

Release Date : 1942

Duration : 117 mins

Language : English

Subtitles : No

On-line discussion. Boston heiress Charlotte Vale (Bette Davis) is a neurotic wreck, largely because her domineering mother (Gladys Cooper) continues to control her life. However, after a stint in a sanatorium where she receives the attention of Dr. Jasquith (Claude Rains), Charlotte comes out of her shell and agrees to go on a South American cruise. Aboard ship she meets Jerry (Paul Henreid) and falls in love, despite him being married. They enjoy a brief tryst in Rio before returning to the States, where Charlotte struggles to forget him and find happiness.

A basically soggy script gets by … through the romantic magic of its stars, who were all at their best; and suffering in mink went over very big in wartime.” (Leslie Halliwell – Halliwell’s Film Guide)