Movie Meetup — Romería — Meet from 7:15 pm, film at 8:20

" ... the intricate fabric of familial relationships molded by time and suddenly reworked by life’s tricky, unpredictable hands ..."

We're going to see Carla Simón's new film, Romería.

We'll meet in the Watershed cafe/bar from 7:15 pm, to say hello and chat. Afterwards, we will stop for a few minutes to talk about the film.

Buy your own ticket from the box office or online.
(This screening is scheduled for Cinema 2. It is always possible that it will sell out)

ABOUT THE FILM

"Orphaned at a young age and raised by her mother’s family in Barcelona, 18-year-old Marina (Llucia Garcia) has never met her father’s extended clan in the city of Vigo, in Galicia. But to apply for a scholarship to study cinema, she needs an official form signed by her grandparents. Camcorder in hand, she travels to Spain’s stormy Atlantic coast to explore her roots and discover whether sharing blood is the same as being part of a family.

"With her pensive and rather lovely third feature, Carla Simon returns to the autobiographical material that inspired her first film, Summer 1993. While this picture lacks the guileless immediacy of the child’s-eye view of her first two films, Romeria demonstrates once again that Simon has a rare gift for capturing the unpredictable, mercurial beast that is the family.
★★★★ Wendy Ide, Screen Daily

"Simón has an instinctive and almost miraculous way of just immersing herself within extended freewheeling family scenes – her camera moving unobtrusively in the group, like another teenager at the party, quietly noticing everything."
★★★★ Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

"The Spanish director of Summer 1993 and Alcarràs continues to explore jagged crevices of memory and family in her semi-autobiographical third feature.
★★★★ Guy Lodge, Variety