Movie: Les Intouchables
Arts Rutherglen’s Fine Film Season 2024 Les Intouchables Tuesday 17 September, 2024 Multi award winning 2011 international sensation based on a true story. If you’ve seen it, it’s worth another look. If you missed it, catch it now!! After he becomes a quadriplegic from a paragliding accident, an aristocrat hires a young man from the […]
Movie: Two many Chefs
Arts Rutherglen’s Fine Film Season 2024 Too many Chefs Tuesday 27th August, 2024 Single and devoted to his career, Mikel as head chef of Atari, has carefully structured his life to be free of complications. So when he encounters his now aging father on the street, who had disappeared 30 years earlier, his world is […]
Movie: Coup de Chance
Arts Rutherglen’s Fine Film Season 2024 Coup de Chance Tuesday 23 July, 2024 “Coup de Chance” (Stroke of Luck) explores the role of chance or coincidence in our lives. Evolving from a quietly gripping romantic comedy/drama it surprises with its unexpected twists. A 2023 Parisian mystery to a jazzy soundtrack!
Movie: Alcarras
Arts Rutherglen’s Fine Film Season 2024 Alcarras Tuesday 28 May, 2024 “Alcarras” The threat of modernization challenges the integrity of a family in this personal memoir of a small village in the Spanish countryside. Inspired by film maker, Carla Simon’s own family story, with a cast of first-time actors, this bittersweet drama touches on globalization […]
Movie: The Rose Maker
Arts Rutherglen’s Fine Film Season 2024 The Rose Maker Tuesday 23 April, 2024 The Rosemaker” reveals some of the challenges of creating the perfect rose and preserving a prestigious old family business. Faced with financial ruin, Eve takes advice from her ever-loyal secretary and hires three hapless and seemingly unsuitable members from a “post-prison, back […]
Arts Rutherglen Fine Film Season, 2023
Another great season of films has just wound up. We try to select films that aren’t readily accessible in mainstream and which might provoke discussion, whilst being thoroughly entertaining. This year’s selection was mainly French but also Belgian and Spanish. A particular favourite was our July film: “Tour de Force”, (Une Belle Course”) a quirky […]
Movie: Rosa’s Wedding
arts Rutherglen Fine Film, Tuesday 12 September, 2023 Rosa’s Wedding Final film for this season Early date due to school holidays “Due to her kind nature, Rosa is besieged on all sides: family members, work colleagues, neighbours. What to do?! Her unexpected wedding announcement leads to great consternation…. And MUCH more meddling.” <<Rosa’s Wedding: This […]
Movie: Playground
aRTS Rutherglen Fine Film Season Tuesday 22 August, 2023 Anxious about starting a new school, young Nora would prefer to stay home with her father. But despite her nerves, she soon becomes aware that her older brother, 10 year old Abel is being bullied by other kids. PLAYGROUND illuminates just how the conflicts, grievances and […]
Movie: Tour de Force
arts Rutherglen Fine Film Season Tuesday 25 July, 2023 TOUR DE FORCE (La Grande Boucle) << If you’ve been following the Tour de France, you’ll enjoy this quirky, light-hearted comedy. Jobless, wifeless Franco is, a forlorn cycling fanatic, embarks on his very own Tour de France, hoping to fulfil a personal dream and perhaps even […]
Movie: Adieu – Tuesday 20 June
aRTS Rutherglen’s Fine Film Season continues … DATE: Tuesday, 20 June, 2023 “Farewell Mr Haffmann” is a vivid depiction of occupied Paris. The legendary Daniel Auteuil gives a stellar performance in this 2022 highly acclaimed historical drama. A powerfully engaging story about risky decisions and the complexity of human relationships…. with unexpected “twists”.