FIRST night of new Millennium Film Club opened in LIT Moylish on Tuesday 4 with panache, an 8pm show preceded by the splash and dash of party.
Club founders, the college’s Gerry Meagher in charge of Theatre Studies, and Limerick Film Archive’s Declan McLaughlin, drew in an adult crowd to view Paolo Sorrentini’s ‘YOUTH’. Same movie at 2.5hrs tried this writer’s patience, although Michael Caine and Paul Dano’s performances lifted a confused script above the Swiss cowbell symphonics.
Last week’s ‘Bobby Sands: 66 Days’ is an outstanding and impartial piece of film making, part biography, part documentary. Next screening, look to Tuesday 18 for the Spanish movie, ‘Marshland’.
Director Albert Rodriguez made this two years ago, an ’80s thriller set by the marshlands of Andalucia. Javier Guitierrez is lead actor.
The Hollywood Reporter says ‘Marshlands’ “uses the thriller format to lock together the personal, the social and the political in a portrait of an isolated community, and a whole society, in flux”.
Tuesdays until December 6 for €8/ €6/ €5 and annual membership fee €2.
