Movie Meetup Choice — Magic Farm /or/ Flow — Meet from 7:15

There is a choice this week:

• Amalia Ulman's new film Magic Farm — a kaleidoscopic journey as a misguided American documentary crew ends up in the wrong town;

or ...

• if you haven't seen it, there's an evening screening of Gints Zilbalodis' Oscar winning Flow.

Choose which movie you want to see and buy your own ticket from the box office or online (links below.)

We'll meet in the Watershed cafe/bar from 7:15 pm, to say hello and chat. After the films, we will stop for a while to share thoughts and reactions.

ABOUT MAGIC FARM (8:30 pm, ticket)

"Colourful and unfiltered, Magic Farm ... combines a surreal send-up of the media with a heartfelt exploration of humanity.
— Watershed summary

"Every scene has a delight: Manchi stabbing balloons with a knife, Edna’s out-of-place cloven-toed high heels, the lilt in Justin’s voice as he smiles at a street mutt and says, “What’s up, dog?” Cinematographer Carlos Rigo and editor Arturo Sosa groove along with eye-catching colors and skateboard-video-style visuals, even inserting B-roll from a camera strapped to a horse’s head and doing a dramatic zoom to a sheep.
★★★★★ Amy Nicholson, LA Times

ABOUT FLOW (8:20 pm, ticket)

"In an unsettling prophecy of the earth’s not too distance future, cities live underwater in the wake of a biblical flood. Water overwhelms the forest. The cat must flee the comforts of the house, ending up in a sailboat with a dog, a capybara, later a (very big) bird and a lemur."
— Kambole Campbell, BFI Sight & Sound

"A mesmerising, wondrous example of animation’s potential ... Flow is the real deal."
★★★★★ John Nugent, Empire