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SEASON FOURTEEN: 2012-2013

September 2012: Beginners
October 2012: Thank You for Smoking
November 2012: Coriolanus
December 2012: The Hedgehog
January 2013: Le Quattro Volte
February 2013: Senna
February 2013 (HFS AGM): The Help
March 2013: Delicatessen
April 2013: Incendies
May 2013: A Separation

SEPTEMBER 2012: Beginners

Ewan McGregor is Oliver, a 38-year-old graphic designer, in this moving and funny exploration of the vagaries of love. His elderly widowed father (Christopher Plummer in an Oscar-winning performance) has come out as gay and throws himself joyously into a new lifestyle, forcing Oliver to re-examine his parents’ lives and his own relationships. Great jazz soundtrack.
2010 | USA | 105 mins | Cert 15 
Writer and director: Mike Mills

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OCTOBER 2012: Thank You for Smoking

This savagely satirical comedy-drama stars Aaron Eckhart as Nick, a man who excels in his career as spindoctor for Big Tobacco. He plots with colleagues how to make other dangerous products more appealing, and visits Hollywood to influence a movie producer, all the while trying to remain a role model for his young son (Cameron Bright).    
2005 | USA | 92 min | Cert 15 
Director: Jason Reitman | Based on a novel by Christopher Buckley
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NOVEMBER 2012: Coriolanus

In this uncompromisingly modern version of Shakespeare’s last tragedy, Ralph Fiennes has created a forceful, intelligent Coriolanus with a powerful political relevance for our own troubled times. Shot in Serbia, the film is beautifully acted and visually striking. 
2011 | UK | 123 min | Cert 15 
Director and star: Ralph Fiennes
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DECEMBER 2012: The Hedgehog

Paloma, an 11-year-old with a pessimistic but often hilarious outlook on life, alters her views when friendships develop with Renee, the prickly concierge of their Parisian apartment building, and Kakuro, an elderly Japanese resident. 
2009 | France | 100 min | Cert PG 
Director: Mona Achache | Based on the novel by Muriel Barbery
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JANUARY 2013: Le Quattro Volte

Birth, death, and transformation are examined in this profound and often comic meditation on the cycles of life on earth. Exquisitely shot in a remote Calabrian village, the film focuses as much on the life of goats and the natural world as on the human inhabitants. Totally absorbing. 
2010 | Italy | 88 min | Cert U 
Writer and director: Michelangelo Frammartino 
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FEBRUARY 2013: Senna

You don’t have to be a Formula One fan to enjoy this BAFTA award winning documentary on Brazilian motor-racing legend, Ayrton Senna. Featuring previously unseen behind the scenes footage, the film gives rare insight into his personal and professional journey from 1984 to his untimely death a decade later.
2010 | UK | 106 min | Cert 12A 
Director: Asif Kapadia | Writer: Manish Pandey
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FEBRUARY 2013 (HFS AGM): The Help

In 1960s Mississippi, three extraordinary and very different women build an unlikely friendship around a secret writing project on the lives and views of African-American maids – an enterprise which puts them all at risk. 
2011 | USA | 146 min | Cert 12A 
Director: Tate Taylor | Based on the novel by Kathryn Stockett
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MARCH 2013: Delicatessen

Horror, sci-fi and humour are combined in this surrealistic black comedy set in a post-apocalyptic French boarding house. Visually memorable and wickedly funny, the film does contain the occasional stomach-churning image!
1991 | France | 99 min | Cert 15 
Directors: Marc Caro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet
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APRIL 2013: Incendies

Twin brother and sister make life-altering discoveries when they travel to the Middle East to fulfil their mother’s last wishes. The deeply moving story brings the extremism and violence of today’s world to a starkly personal level, delivering a powerful testament to the will to survive. 
2010 | Canada | Cert PG | 130 min 
Writer and director: Denis Villeneuve (Play by Majdi Mouawad)
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MAY 2013: A Separation

This Oscar-winning drama, set in contemporary Iran, traces the dissolution of a marriage as Simin and Nader face a major decision – whether to improve the life of their child by a moving to another country or to stay and care for a deteriorating parent with Alzheimers. 
2011 | Iran | 123 min | Cert PG 
Writer and director: Asghar Farhadi
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