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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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Audience reaction to “The President’s Cake”

Audience reaction to “The President’s Cake”

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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Audience reaction to “The President’s Cake”

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

  • ‘Excellent’: 3 votes
    • As always poor and children who suffer the most.
    • Thank you for a challenging film
  • ‘Very Good’: 12 votes
    • Not sure about the Guardian’s “Sugary” review. What it means to survive in a country under international sanctions (as usual, it’s the ordinary people, not the narcistic President, who suffer) – 100+ mins of the exploitation of women and children & futile bartering.
    • Very touching. Lamia’s resilience in a life so tragic.
    • Well made. A view of life we don’t know much about. Good acting & nice music.
    • The child actors were amazing. Good film.
    • Not sure why it was seen as cream cakeish! Relentless & absorbing & a depiction of a horrendous collapsing society.
    • Showed the culture well, and the horrors of war. Amazing young actors.
    • Clever to use the cake as a device to explore all the ingredients that make up Iraqi society. Fascinating to see how such a different society works: yet the outside forces affecting it are as criminal as ever.
    • A fascinating glimpse into the privations of life in Iraq under Saddam’s autocratic rule. An engaging performance from Lamia, eclipsed arguably only by that cockerel!
    • A charming film: a glimpse into so many lives, and the innocence of childhood. Lamia in future boat person’ rescue by the lifeboat off Dover one day!?
    • Suitable reminder of what we supported.
    • Great start to the season – loved the rooster.
    • What real poverty, stolen innocence & no future looks like. Fantastic cinematography.
  • ‘Good’: 7 votes:
    • Very thought provoking film.
    • An engaging and authentic film! Deeply moving.
    • Very thought provoking – realise how children suffer in war. Are sanctions justified?
    • ? Genocide. Who was doing the killing? USA or Saddam?
  • ‘Satisfactory’: 0 votes
  • ‘Poor’: 0 votes

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 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 “Our Land” on Monday 19 October, preceded by a brief AGM.