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Audience reaction to “La Chimera”

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19 people responded. The breakdown and comments were:

  • ‘Excellent’: 7 votes
    • Excellent follow up to Rohrwacher’s previous offering, ‘Happy As Lazarro’.  Similar bunch of ne’er-do-wells and similar mix of fantasy with gritty realism.
    • Like no other film I have seen.  Not absorbed it all yet but utterly absorbing.  Truly wonderful.
    • Hugely entertaining.  The Greek chorus came to mind – the characters were gripping!
    • Very Italian – a fable, a myth, criminals & heroes; what more to want.
      Rossellini, as ever, takes the film.
  • ‘Very Good’: 8 votes
    • A treat to see a ‘real film’ in a real cinema.
    • Loved the camera work.
    • Entertaining film, with excellent camera work.
    • Crazy, quirky, enjoyable.
    • A complete original, wonderful!
  • ‘Good’: 3 votes
  • ‘Satisfactory’: 1 vote
  • ‘Poor’: 0 votes
  • + one comment slip without a score:
    • Too confusing for me unfortunately.

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Next Presentation: La Chimera (Thursday 23 January)

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Chelmsford Theatre Studio, Fairfield Road @ 8PM (Doors open 7:15)

Everyone has their own Chimera, something they try to achieve but never manage to find. For the band of tombaroli, thieves of ancient grave goods and archaeological wonders, the Chimera means redemption from work and the dream of easy wealth. For Arthur, the Chimera looks like, Benjamina, the woman he lost. To find her, Arthur will challenge the invisible and search everywhere for the door to the afterlife of which myths speak.

Director: Alice Rohrwacher (Happy As Lazarro)

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The Holdovers

Audience Reaction to “The Holdovers”

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May we encourage you to complete the Response Slips following the showing of each film – feedback (both positive and negative) helps us to decide what types of films to show in future seasons. In addition, you can leave comments for any of the films we have shown via the Discussion page.

Discussion Night:

We will be holding a brief meeting on Wednesday 12 March following the screening of the second of our Holocaust movies, The Commandant’s Shadow. This will be held in the Cafeteria area of the Studio Theatre.

Audience Reaction to “The Holdovers”

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21 people responded. The breakdown and comments were:

  • ‘Excellent’: 14 votes
    • ‘Entre nous’ a superb film.  Perfect Christmas Movie with a wonderful soundtrack.  Uplifting in every way.  Best Christmas Selection since ‘Sing Street’.
    • A perfect pre-Christmas choice; a wonderful bitter-sweet confection of a film!
    • A ringing endorsement of private education.
    • Second viewing.  Very entertaining.
    • Wonderful, seasonal, heartwarming!
    • Excellent film, ten out of ten.
    • ‘The Shining’ re-imagined.
  • ‘Very Good’: 7 votes
    • Very engaging pre-Christmas fare.  Although quite a long film, the slow reveal of the underlying issues behind both male lead characters’ behaviour was well paced.
    • Thoroughly absorbing story & great acting from all the cast!
    • Most enjoyable film.
    • Entertaining.  All main characters found what they needed in life.
    • Characters that grew as the film progressed.
    • Terrific, an unexpected joy with 3 great central performances.
    • Excellent storytelling.  Emotional without sentimentality.  Good to watch a film with managed self-restraint!
  • ‘Good’: 0 votes
  • ‘Satisfactory’: 0 votes
  • ‘Poor’: 0 votes

To download all the comments, click on the following link:
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We are always interested to receive any additional comments people may have on this film and welcome all contributions to this forum.

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