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Small Engine Repair

Sunday, December 30, 2007 @ 8.20 pm

Cert 15

Irish director Niall Heery’s debut feature is a study of male friendship and broken dreams, set to a country music soundtrack. In a tiny logging community in rural Ireland, Doug is an unassuming fork-lift driver too shy to let anyone listen to his country music demo tape. But his life, and that of best mate Bill, changes when old friend Burley arrives after a year in prison. The result is an understated, elegiac, moving film about far-reaching dreams that run under the surface of invisible lives. Heery’s shots of the Irish logging town conjure a place at once beautiful and claustrophobic, and the ensemble cast does justice to a great screenplay that refuses cliché or sentimentality. But it’s Iain Glen’s brilliantly understated performance as the sensitive, troubled Doug that elevates Small Engine Repair way above the competition. By the end, his small journey of quiet redemption will mean everything to you. Mae Doug yn ddyn swil sy’n gyrru tryc fforch ac sydd â breuddwyd gudd o fod yn ganwr gwlad. Daw ei gyfaill, Burley allan o garchar a dyna gychwyn taith o ddarganfod i’r ddau. (102′)

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we also showed this film on 29/12/07

A Few Days in September

Sunday, December 9, 2007 @ 8.15 pm

Cert 15

In this classy action thriller, Juliette Binoche stars as Irene, a French secret agent who helps to reunite missing American CIA man Eliot (Nick Nolte) with his long estranged children, while protecting him from a CIA assassin (John Turturro). Set in the days leading up to 9/11, director Santiago Amigorena’s movie has proven controversial for implying the CIA had foreknowledge of the attacks. This movie takes the Hollywood conspiracy theory thriller, and gives it a hard continental twist. Binoche excels as quirky Irene, a hard-nosed agent who also talks to her pet turtle, and as she moves through Paris and Venice, the tension builds to a compelling finale. Ffilm gyflym ei thempo am ysbïwraig Ffrengig sy’n ceisio uno ysbïwr o America gyda’i blant heb i neb gael niwed. Mae’n ffilm â steil iddi fydd yn cyflymu’r galon. (115′)

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We also showed this film on the 7th of December