Online Cinéclub - 2nd June
Join us for a chat around four contemporary French & Canadian movies! This week’s selection explores many aspects of family ties, in the animal as well as the human world. Sign up now, and watch the films on SBS On Demand.
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Land of the Bears, 2014 Filmmaker Guillaume Vincent’s breathtaking documentary provides an unforgettable vision of Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula, famous for its rich and dynamic population of brown bears, by following the daily adventures of a mother bear and her two cubs, and adolescent male, and an experienced male leader. |
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All Three of Us, 2015 From a small village in the South of Iran to Parisian housing projects, Kheiron tells us about the extraordinary fate of his parents, eternal optimists Hibat and Fereshteh, in a comedy that very much resembles a universal tale about family love, self-sacrifice and, especially, the ideal of living together. |
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It’s Only the End of the World, 2017 After 12 years of absence, Louis, a terminally ill writer, goes back to his hometown, planning on announcing his upcoming death to his family. As resentment soon rewrites the course of the afternoon, fits and feuds unfold, fuelled by loneliness and doubt, while all attempts of empathy are sabotaged by people’s incapacity to listen and love. The film is based on the play of the same name by Jean-Luc Lagarce and is directed by Xavier Dolan, starring Vincent Cassel, Marion Cotillard, Léa Seydoux and Nathalie Baye. |
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A Brother’s Love, 2019 In this energetic and bittersweet comedy/drama, thirty-something and single Sophia misses out on a plum academic job and is forced to move in with her older brother Karim, with whom she’s always been extremely close. But when Karim falls for Sophia’s gynaecologist Eloïse, their unbreakable sibling bond is tested and Sophia’s directionless life is sent spiralling out of control. |
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