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Audience reaction to “Sentimental Value”

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21 response slips were returned. The breakdown, and comments were:

  • ‘Excellent’: 12 votes
    • Fantastic film. The pacing, with the gradual reveals of each character’s issues, was excellent. A film that is worth repeated viewings.
    • ‘Films’ within films, Plays within ‘Plays’ – two sisters seemingly opposites, yet at times indistinguishable. What was What was real and what was simulation? Superb acting!
    • Innovative film making, excellent acting. I really enjoyed it.
    • A perfectly cut diamond of a film with acting of the very highest order. Simply wonderful.
    • Great film.
    • Blew me away! Such a realistic portrayal of a complex family with generational trauma. Amazing acting.
    • Very Nordic. Fantastic performances – is life just that then. Think I need to see it again to fully appreciate it. Loved the house!
    • Brilliantly acted and very believable – nice music too.
    • Great film – super acting. A film I probably wouldn’t have seen without the club!
    • Loved it
    • Dramatic version of the BBC’s House Thru Time.
  • ‘Very Good’: 5 votes
    • Nothing like a dose of Nordic angst to remind one of a month spent watching Bergman!
    • Beautiful filming. Brilliant acting. Very thoughtful.
    • I found it absorbing and thought provoking.
    • Terrific film, wonderful acting, great soundtrack. Further viewing will reveal more.
    • Mesmerising. The crack in the home eventually mended. Not sure about choice of music – more a Leonard Cohen film?!
  • ‘Good’: 1 vote
  • ‘Satisfactory’: 3 votes
    • Rather dark and slow for my liking.
    • Rather too long and complicated.
  • ‘Poor’: 0 votes

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Next screening:

Unfortunately we do not have a film for December, therefore our next film will be “Nouvelle Vague” on Tuesday 19 January

Audience reaction to “Our Land”

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18 response slips were returned. The breakdown, and comments were:

  • ‘Excellent’: 7 votes
    • A well-made, handsome film!  Lovely to look at England and a bit of Scotland.  Much ‘food for thought’
    • Brill
    • Excellent documentary and hopefully the Right To Roam movement win their case for us to be like Scotland.
    • I wish everybody could see this film.
    • Political and time for a change – but not the House of Lords
    • Thought provoking – comparison to Slave abolition was so right.
    • Interesting and informative.  Makes you think.
  • ‘Very Good’: 8 votes
    • Three things to take from this film:
      • 1. We all need to reconnect with nature;
      • 2. Rearing millions of non-native birds each year, just to fill them with lead, is not responsible management of the countryside.
      • 3. Some landowners could do with leaving their estates occasionally and engaging with real people.
    • Complex
    • Beautiful film
    • A reminder that the good things of life are too often reserved for the few. How do they get away with it? Also, a reminder of the magic of nature and the wonder of music.
    • Lovely scenery.  Wish more people would just get out and walk.
    • Thought provoking.
    • When you’re so accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.  Woth remembering Scotland also has very few leasehold properties.
    • Very interesting
  • ‘Good’: 1 vote
  • ‘Satisfactory’:  1 vote
    • Very soporific.  Not sure it went anywhere.  Characters who were too entrenched to meet anywhere.  Arguments over simplified.
  • 1 Comment without a rating
    • Could have been said in half the time.  Don’t agree with the right to roam, plenty of land already available to walk over.

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We are always interested to receive any additional comments people may have on this film and welcome all contributions to this forum. If you did not leave comments after the screening, but still wish to do so, you can leave them here.

Next screening:

Our next film will be “Sentimental Value” on Monday 2 November

Our Next Presentation: Our Land (Monday 19 October)

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Chelmsford Theatre Studio, Fairfield Road @ 8PM (Doors open 7:15)

Orban Wallace’s film about the right-to-roam movement shows us a campaigning group with a simple, reasonable aim: to give walkers in England and Wales the same rights that people have in Scotland, courtesy of the Scottish Outdoor Access Code, brought into being by the Land Reform (Scotland) Act of 2003. There, walkers have the right to temporary, non-motorised access – which is to say walking, cycling and camping, carried out responsibly – to most land, public or private. These rights have now existed for some time without the apocalyptic end to the countryside as we know it.

Documentary • Cert: 12A • Year: 2025
Language: English • 1 Hour 30 Minutes

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22 response slips were returned. The breakdown, and comments were: You can download the comments by clicking on the following link:Feedback for ‘The President’s Cake’ We are always interested to receive any additional comments people may have on this film … Continue reading →

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