PROGRAM Autumn 2025-26

 FRIDAY AUGUST 29th
19.15 PAULINE AT THE BEACH
by Eric Rohmer, France, 1983 France, 1h 34 min, starring Amanda Langlet, Arielle Dombasle, Pascal Greggory
The teenage girl, Pauline, watches as the adults around her entangle themselves in a web of flirtation and betrayal. Everyone is talking about love, but no one seems to understand it. Except maybe Pauline?

Film Week September 25th-28th

Taxi Tehran to Tuscany  - Ride with Kiarostami

Comparing his films to poems rather than novels, he has created admiration as well as frustration amongst his audience with works where the understanding of the narrative can seem to shift with every viewing. Kiarostami’s most recurring motif is of two people talking in a car. It is a relatable scene to many of us. With Kiarostami however, a certain strangeness becomes apparent - we don’t see the road or the outside landscape, becoming aware that we are only entreated to part of the image and in extension only part of the characters’ lives. 

Abbas Kiarostami edited his Palme d’Or-winning A Taste of Cherry only at night—the sole time state-owned film equipment was made available to him. One of the few Iranian filmmakers who remained after the 1979 Islamic Revolution, Kiarostami has stated “When you take a tree that is rooted in the ground and transfer it from one place to another, the tree will no longer bear fruit. […] I think if I had left my country I would be the same as the tree.” Kiarostami began filmmaking in Iran in the late ’1960s. Long overlooked abroad, he gained recognition around 1990, his international breakthrough paving the way for Iranian cinema to reach a global audience. 

Curiosity is enhanced further as the films often center on bizarre choices such as that of a man posing as a famous director, another seeking strangers’ help without explaining what act he wants them to perform. Are these puzzles to be solved or mysteries to contemplate? This fall you too can get along for the ride across both Tehran and Tuscany.  Viggo Johnsson, Filmklubben 

THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 25TH
19.15 CERTIFIED COPY
Italy, 2010, 1h 46min, starring Juliette Binoche, William Shimell
A man and a women meet at a fancy restaurant. Although they speak a lot, it is quite unclear what kind of relationship they have. Love isn’t easy, even in romantic Tuscany where this play is set. Play might be the exact word, plays needed to entice love. But what are the rules?

FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 26TH
18 DINNER Bring a small thing to share. 

19.15 Introduction: TAXI TEHRAN TO TUSCANY - RIDE WITH KIAROSTAMI
Introduction followed by

19.15 CLOSE UP

SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 28TH
TASTE OF CHERRY
Iran 1997, 1h 39 min, starring Homayoun Ershadi 
Mr. Badii embarks on a quiet, emotional journey as he searches for someone willing to help him end his life.

MORE FILMS IN AUTUMN

Insurrection

Insurrection - resurrection. Rebellion and raising of the dead; insurrection, in Greek ‘Anastasias’, contains the two meanings in one word. - Turn around, take a new direction, rise up, rebel!
This autumn we experience insurrection in three installments: The cultural revolution of Saint Francis in the 1300s, a brotherhood imitating the disciples and the loving Christ. Shanghai in the 1940s. Victorian Australia, the living Earth rebelling against the violence of modern culture.
Insurrection, ‘Anastasias’. Different forms of protest and rebellion in three of our autumn films, three worlds, three ways: Flowers of Saint Francis, Lust Caution and Picnic at Hanging Rock.

FRIDAY OCTOBER 10TH
FLOWERS OF SAINT FRANCIS
by Roberto Rosselini, Italy 1950, starring Italian Franciscan friars
Saint Francis of Assisi living in the 13th century, charismatic, straightforward portraited in a series of scenes from his life with his fellow brothers following him in outmost simplicity and joy. A charming and lively portrait that stands out among other films with religious themes. 

FRIDAY OCTOBER 31st
LUST CAUTION
by Ang Lee Taiwan, United States, Hong Kong, China200, 2h 37m, starring Tony Leung, Tang Wei, Joan Chen
In the time of war turnoil we follow a group students who is about to eliminate a political opponent at the university. A compelling story about passion, resistence and love.

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 14TH 19.15
PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK
by Peter Weir, Australia 1975, 1h 55 min, starring Rachel Roberts, Anne-Louise Lambert, Helen Morse, Vivean Gray
On Valentine's Day, a group of girls from an Australian boarding school go on an excursion to a volcanic formation known as Hanging Rock. But soon, strange events start to unfold... Does the rock hide a secret?

FRIDAY DECEMBER 
SOLARIS
by Andrei Tarkovsky, USSR 1972, 2h 47 min, starring Donatas Banionis, Natalya Bondarchuk, Anatoly Solinitsyn
To its form scifi, or perhaps anti-scifi; as for substance, about longing and the construction of memories. Meditative and intriguing, it has inspired several advanced American attempts, and also a remake. Still no movie in the genre has surpassed the complexity offered here. What is happening? And to whom? What is Solaris?

 -since we had technical problems last time we had Solaris in the program, we invite all to participate without membership this time.

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 14TH
PICNIC AT HANGNG ROCK 
by Peter Weir,  Australia 1975, 1h 55 min, starring Rachel Roberts, Anne-Louise Lambert, Helen Morse, Vivean Gray

On Valentine's Day, a group of girls from an Australian boarding school go on an excursion to a volcanic formation known as Hanging Rock. But soon, strange events start to unfold... Does the rock hide a secret?