COMPTON FILM CLUB
Thursday 25th May, 7.30pm for 8pm
‘Lunana explores the true meaning of joy, purpose, and connection.’ The Independent
After the riot of colour that blasted across the screen in Pedro Almadovar’s Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, our choice of film for May is a quiet contrast. Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom (subtitled) is set in Bhutan. This charming, gentle, parable is the tale of Ugyen, a young man from Thimphu (the capital of Bhutan). Ugyen lives with his formidable grandmother and dreams of emigrating to Australia to become a singer. In reality he is in his last year of teacher-training and is sent, reluctantly, to a village school in the country’s mountainous north-west, known as the most remote school in the world.
Ugyen’s trek to reach Lunana is only one of the hardships he experiences – the rudimentary heating system entailing lighting fires with yak dung is another – but to make life easier for him the village elders provide him with his own yak.
This is a film with great charm and along with Ugyen’s growing love for Lunana it is hard not to warm to.
‘The staggeringly photogenic, emphatically feel-good first feature from Pawo Choyning Dorji, set in an isolated mountain community in Bhutan, garnered such a warm global reception that it ended up nominated in last year’s Oscars – quite an achievement for the tiny Himalayan kingdom … Lunana’s appeal is hard to miss … the film is so pure of spirit and so open-hearted, you want to breathe it in, to fill your lungs with it.’ The Guardian
We hope you can join us.
Emily, Jude, Julia, Steph and David
Compton and Up Marden School Hall, School Lane, Compton, PO18 9EZ There is plenty of parking in the school grounds, the hall and pay-bar open at 7.30pm and the film showing starts at 8pm. Tickets £6
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Thursday 25th May, 7.30pm for 8pm
‘Lunana explores the true meaning of joy, purpose, and connection.’ The Independent
After the riot of colour that blasted across the screen in Pedro Almadovar’s Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, our choice of film for May is a quiet contrast. Lunana: A Yak in the Classroom (subtitled) is set in Bhutan. This charming, gentle, parable is the tale of Ugyen, a young man from Thimphu (the capital of Bhutan). Ugyen lives with his formidable grandmother and dreams of emigrating to Australia to become a singer. In reality he is in his last year of teacher-training and is sent, reluctantly, to a village school in the country’s mountainous north-west, known as the most remote school in the world.
Ugyen’s trek to reach Lunana is only one of the hardships he experiences – the rudimentary heating system entailing lighting fires with yak dung is another – but to make life easier for him the village elders provide him with his own yak.
This is a film with great charm and along with Ugyen’s growing love for Lunana it is hard not to warm to.
‘The staggeringly photogenic, emphatically feel-good first feature from Pawo Choyning Dorji, set in an isolated mountain community in Bhutan, garnered such a warm global reception that it ended up nominated in last year’s Oscars – quite an achievement for the tiny Himalayan kingdom … Lunana’s appeal is hard to miss … the film is so pure of spirit and so open-hearted, you want to breathe it in, to fill your lungs with it.’ The Guardian
We hope you can join us.
Emily, Jude, Julia, Steph and David
Compton and Up Marden School Hall, School Lane, Compton, PO18 9EZ There is plenty of parking in the school grounds, the hall and pay-bar open at 7.30pm and the film showing starts at 8pm. Tickets £6
for further info or questions please contact emily@emilymott.com _______________________________________________ Grapevine mailing list: info@rowlandscastle.com
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