“A great week for independent world cinema”
A great week for independent world cinema. This week there’s another great choice of thought-provoking world cinema from New Park Cinema, spanning women’s football, dark practices in the Australian outback, the remnants of French colonialisation in Madagascar, the New York City gallery world and a tale of troubled souls finding connections.
To celebrate International Women’s Day, Copa 71, executive-produced by Venus & Serena Williams, depicts the extraordinary story of the 1971 Women’s World Cup.
Another great score, this time from Nick Cave, ac companiesthe new boy, produced by and starring Cate Blanchett as a renegade nun taking delivery of an Aboriginal orphan into a remote monastery. This tale is from a dark chapter in Australia’s history when indigenous children were kidnapped to destroy their heritage and identity.
Red Island is a poignant depiction of growing up on a military base in the newly independent Madagascar in the early seventies, directed by Robin Campillo (120 beats per minute). Kelly’s Reichardt’s (Certain Women, Meek’s Cutoff ) new film Showing Up is a portrait of an artist and stars the always compelling Michelle Williams as a sculptor preparing for her New York show while trying to balance the daily trials and tribulations of family and friends.
Lastly, Memory is a deeply layered drama intertwining the troubled lives of a social worker and single mother( jessica Cha stain) grappling with her past and a man suffering from early onset dementia( p et erSars ga a rd) who both find unexpected connections. Anne-marie Flynn