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 ...

• for anyone who hasn't seen it already, there's an evening screening of Gints Zilbalodis' Oscar winning Flow.

We'll meet in the Watershed cafe/bar from 7:15 pm, to say hello and chat. After the film, 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