Bridport Film Society
World cinema on your doorstepFilm Archive from the 2006-2007 Season
The 2006-07 Season of the Bridport Film Society featured 13 films from around the globe.
A Common Thread
closeA talented young embroiderer secretly expecting a baby finds work and companionship with a reclusive haute couture designer who has recently lost her son.
Certificate 12A
Directed by Eléonore Faucher
France 2004
88 mins
King's Game
closePower-politics, conspiracy and spin in Copenhagen - who will take over leadership of the Centre Party before the imminent general election?
Certificate 12A
Directed by Denis Dercourt
Denmark / Sweden / Norway 2004
107 mins
Paradise Now
closeIn Nablus two young Palestinians, friends from childhood, prepare for a suicide mission in Tel Aviv.
Certificate 15
Directed by Hany Abu-Assad
Israel / Netherlands / Germany / France 2005
91 mins
Hidden
closeThe life of a TV books programme presenter and his wife is disrupted after they are sent a series of mysterious surveillance tapes of the exterior of their house.
Certificate 15
Directed by Michael Haneke
France / Austria / Germany / Italy 2004
118 mins
Saraband
closeA perceptive, restrained study of family relationships, old age and parenthood in what Bergman has declared to be his final film.
Certificate 15
Directed by Ingmar Bergman
Sweden / Denmark / Norway / Italy / Finland / Germany / Austria 2003
107 mins
Ballets Russes
closeAn absorbing documentary on the ballet company founded by Diaghilev in 1909 and on the competing companies seeking to carry on the tradition after his death in 1929.
Certificate PG
Directed by Dayna Goldfine, Dan Geller
USA 2005
118 mins
Tickets
closeAn Italian / Iranian / British look at some of the passengers travelling on a train from Saint Moritz to Rome.
Certificate PG
Directed by Ermanno Olmi, Abbas Kiarostami, Ken Loach
Italy / UK 2005
109 mins
The Last Mitterrand
closeA young journalist helps the elderly Président de la République (wonderfully played by Michel Bouquet) to compile his memoirs during his last months in office.
Certificate PG
Directed by Robert Guédiguian
France / Switzerland 2004
116 mins
The Child
closeFeckless teenager sells his newborn son for cash, then sets about trying to recover the baby.
Certificate 12A
Directed by Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne
Belgium / France 2005
95 mins
U-Carmen eKhayelitsha
closeBizet's opera skillfully translated into Xhosa and relocated to a township near Cape Town - with a striking central performance by Pauline Malefane.
Certificate 12A
Directed by Mark Dornford-May
South Africa 2004
127 mins
The Night of Truth
closeAfter 10 years of civil war in an unnamed African Country the two sides, having agreed a fragile truce, come together for a feast of reconciliation.
Certificate 18
Directed by Fanta Régina Nacro
Burkina Faso / France 2004
100 mins
Hell
closeThree sisters, living separate lives in Paris, struggle to cope with a traumatic childhood memory and their own romantic relationships. With a screenplay resulting from a collaboration between Krzysztof Kieslowski (1941-96) and Krzysztof Piesiewicz.
Certificate 15
Directed by Danis Tanovic
France / Italy / Belgium / Japan 2005
102 mins
Le Grand Voyage
closeNon-religious Europeanised son drives his devout Muslim father on the 3000-mile trip from Southern France to Mecca.
Certificate PG
Directed by Ismaël Ferroukhi
Morocco / France 2004
107 mins
Seasons Ratings for 2006 / 2007
Following every film screening our audience are asked for their reaction to each film, helping us with our selection process for the following year.
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