Taunton Film Society

Screenings

	September 12 • Couscous After years of the world's film festivals snubbing French offerings as pretentious and boring, ‘Couscous’ won a standing ovation at the Venice film festival and took home three prizes. It opened to ovations in France and won the Louis Delluc prize for film of the year. “This is the great political film we were missing. It both takes your breath away and suddenly makes the air around you easier to breathe”.
	October 10 • Savages Wendy is a struggling playwright, living in Manhattan. Her brother John is a moderately successful academic, living in Buffalo. They are not a particularly close family; having escaped their domineering father, the siblings are firmly cocooned in their own complicated lives. And then their father, the man they have long avoided, is diagnosed with dementia and they have to care for him. Suddenly not only do they have to spend time with their father, but also with each other.
	November 14 • Persepolis Marjane Satrapi, the feisty Iranian heroine of the marvelous animated movie Persepolis, is animated in more ways than one. The young woman - the autobiographical creation of actual feisty Iranian artist Marjane Satrapi is sketched in the same bold illustration style that characterizes Satrapi's internationally adored graphic novels about her life during Iran's Islamic revolution. The movie sparkles with witty selfawareness.
	December 12 • Still Life ‘Still Life’ won the grand prize at the 2006 Venice Film Festival. The movie takes place amid the clatter and disruption of the Three Gorges Dam, the largest dam in the world, and a site of great cultural and political strife because of both environmental and humanitarian concerns. This may sound like a prescription for social cinema, but the film’s interest lies in visual ideas and human behaviour, not agendas.

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