Swindon Film Society continue to bring a feast of fascinating titles for the discerning film fab through out March (and beyond) with three quality selections which you really won’t want to miss.
WOMAN AT WAR
Showing 4th March 2020
101 mins, Cert. 12A, Iceland, Adventure/Comedy
Halla is a fifty-year-old independent woman. But behind the scenes of a quiet routine, she leads a double life as a passionate environmental activist. Known to others only by her alias “The Woman of the Mountain,” Halla secretly wages a one-woman-war on the local aluminum industry. As Halla’s actions grow bolder, from petty vandalism to outright industrial sabotage, she succeeds in pausing the negotiations between the Icelandic government and the corporation building a new aluminum smelter. But right as she begins planning her biggest and boldest operation yet, she receives an unexpected letter that changes everything.
1945
Showing 18th March 2020
91 mins, Cert. 12A, Hungary, Drama
12 August 1945, 11 am. Two mysterious strangers dressed in black appear at the railway station of a Hungarian village where the local people are preparing for a wedding. Within a few hours, everything changes. Secrets, sins, reckoning, love, betrayal and more are unearthed during the course of one day.
THE WIFE
Showing 1st April 2020
101 mins, Cert. 15, USA, Drama
After nearly forty years of marriage, Joan and Joe Castleman (Glenn Close and Jonathan Pryce) are complements. Where Joe is casual, Joan is elegant. Where Joe is vain, Joan is self-effacing. And where Joe enjoys his very public role as Great American Novelist, Joan pours her considerable intellect, grace, charm, and diplomacy into the private role of Great Man’s Wife. Joe is about to be awarded the Nobel Prize for his acclaimed and prolific body of work. Joe’s literary star has blazed since he and Joan first met in the late 1950.
