Watch the selected film and then join us for a lively discussion each month. Instead of books, this a club for those interested in films to meet new people and share ideas. From the casual viewer to the cinephile, all levels of interest in film are welcome.

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July 21 - The Great Beauty (2013)
Cast oni Servillo, Carlo Verdone, Sabrina Ferilli
Director Paolo Sorrentino

Journalist Jep Gambardella (Toni Servillo, Il divo and Gomorrah) charms and seduces his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome as a permanent fixture in the city's literary and social circles. However, when his sixty-fifth birthday coincides with a shock from the past, Jep finds himself unexpectedly taking stock of his life, turning his cutting wit on himself and his contemporaries, and looking past the extravagant nightclubs, parties, and cafés to find Rome in all its glory: a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.

August 18 - Water (2005)
Cast Lisa Ray, John Abraham, Seema Biswas
Director Deepa Mehta

A widow should be long suffering until death, self-restrained and chaste. A virtuous wife who remains chaste when her husband has died goes to heaven. A woman who is unfaithful to her husband is reborn in the womb of a jackal. The Laws of Manu, Chapter 5 verse 156-161, Dharamshastras (Sacred Hind texts). Set in 1938 Colonial India, against Mahatma Gandhi's rise to power, the story begins when eight-year-old Chuyia is widowed and sent to a home where Hindu widows must live in penitence.

September 15 - Forever (2016)
Cast  Ivan Botha, DonnaLee Roberts, Andre Jacobs, Kelsey Egan
Director Jaco Smith

Childhood best friends, Nina and Hugo, shared many adventures. But today, those adventures are just painful memories and reminders of the past. Hugo, a successful travel photographer, returns home for the first time in 10 years. He arrives the day before Nina is about to get married. But her fairy tale moment turns into a devastating storm when her fiancé chickens out and leaves Nina alone and humiliated at the altar. In shock and hysterical, she insists that the wedding reception goes ahead – with or without the groom. After too much champagne and a long night of partying, Nina and Hugo wake up on an airplane as the captain's voice welcomes them to Mauritius – the Island of Love.

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