*Wednesday 15th January, The Crime is Mine*
Felicitations to all our film club supporters and thank you for making 2024 such a successful year. We had bumper audiences for *The Great Escaper*, *Wicked Little Letters* and the treat of the year, Maggie Smith’s turn as the murderous granny in *Keeping Mum*, with a superb supporting cast including Rowan Atkinson as the vicar and Liz Smith as Chair of the church flower rota committee. Any resemblance to real life events or characters in the Octagon is pure coincidence!
Due to the healthy turnout last year, we found ourselves – once again – in credit and will be making another donation to the homeless charity Stonepillow from our funds, fulfilling the club’s original intention of giving back to local charity – thank YOU! We greatly appreciate your feedback, enthusiasm and suggestions so do let us know if there is a film you are hoping to see in your local community cinema and we will try and show it.
Our January film is the subtitled, *very* French, theatrical comedy, *The Crime is Mine*, with a stellar cast including Isabelle Huppert, Fabrice Luchini and André Dussollier. Adapted from a 1934 French stage comedy it had two Hollywood versions in the 30s and 40s but is now fabulously reinvigorated in this new adaptation. ‘Paris, 1935. Penniless aspiring actor Madeleine Verdier (Nadia Tereszkiewicz) has just pleaded guilty to the murder of a powerful theatre producer. But at the sensational trial, in which Madeleine is defended by her roommate, newly graduated law student Pauline Mauléon (Rebecca Marder), Madeleine is unexpectedly acquitted … this is only the beginning of the story which touches on gender politics and the fickle focus of celebrity … the entire cast is clearly having an absolute blast with this peppy comedy crime romp – none more so than Isabelle Huppert, who sweeps imperiously into the film’s third act in a cloud of frizzy ginger curls and gloriously self-important absurdity. To reveal more about her character would be to defuse the picture’s mischievous … twist, but Huppert is sublimely silly, deliciously funny and single-handedly worth the price of admission.’ *The Guardian*
A bientôt mes amis. Bar opens at 7.30pm, film starts at 8pm.
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 * _______________________________________________ Grapevine mailing list: info@rowlandscastle.com
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