Chair’s Newsletter – April 2024

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Dear Members,

Another season has ended: our 33rd!!  On April 17 we screened RETURN TO SEOUL, the last of the 10 movies this season. At the film, in front of probably our biggest audience of the year, I was able to announce some good news.  We are planning to present yet season of 10 films, starting in October.  The dates booked for the Studio are:

Thursday 17 October ’24
Monday 4 November
Wednesday 11 December
Thursday 23 January ’25
Wednesday 5 February
Thursday 27 February
Wednesday 12 March
Thursday 27 March
Thursday 10 April
Tuesday 29 April

Demand for bookings at the Studio being so great, we had very little choice of dates to suit us, but we hope these present an attractive addition to your diaries.  The Committee will now begin the process of choosing the movies we shall show.  Your suggestions will be most welcome but, as many of you will know, not all recently released films are available to clubs like ours.  But do get in touch!

Demand for bookings at the Studio being so great, we had very little choice of dates to suit us, but we hope these present an attractive addition to your diaries.  The Committee will now begin the process of choosing the movies we shall show.  Your suggestions will be most welcome but, as many of you will know, not all recently released films are available to clubs like ours.  But do get in touch!

Virtually all of our reserve in the bank will go to hiring the 10 evenings at the Studio.  We are confident that the cost of licences to show the films will be met from your membership subscriptions and guest tickets.  However, the cost of subscriptions will have to increase from £70 this season to £75 for the next one.  Guest tickets will be £12.50.  We have ended this current season with 65 members.  Any fall in membership for the ’24/’25 season will mean that the future of the club will be in serious doubt.  Therefore I do hope you will all continue as members and that you will encourage friends, family and neighbours to join.  It was good to see so many of you taking part in the discussion after UNDER THE FIG TREES.  Everyone was extremely complimentary about the programme and showed a keen desire for the club to survive.

I would like to thank you all for your continuing support of the club.  I hope this has been a rewarding, enjoyable, even an entertaining and ‘challenging’ programme.  On your behalf, I would also like to thank members of the committee for their support, particularly our booking secretary Daden Hunt, our membership secretary Malcolm Reid, our treasurer Lawrence Islip and our website manager Bob Foale.

Wishing you a pleasant summer and looking forward to seeing you all again in October, I am

Peter Bunyan
Chair – CFC

Audience reaction to “Return To Seoul”

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17 people responded. The breakdown and comments are listed below.

  • ‘Excellent’: 3 votes
    • I’ve never seen a film with so many heart-wrenching feelings. Her face! I couldn’t stop staring at her all the way through. It was especially emotional for me, having been an unmarried mother 1966 – I kept her though.
    • An excellent film. Very powerful. The main actor’s way of showing emotion with small movements of her face was amazing.
    • Raw. Real. Phenomenal actress. Great soundtrack.
  • ‘Very Good’: 7 votes
    • Hardly a likable character, but I have some sympathy toward her, given her disappointment at the rejection by her mother and her alcoholic father almost stalking her.
    • First half was v. good and the second half disjointed but still v.v. intriguing. Well-acted in an unhinged way!
    • Original, always interesting & always anxious. A very fine central performance.
    • Moving
    • Visually absorbing – a very ‘slow burn’ but a poignant ending!
    • All emotions beautifully portrayed.
    • A Korean Almodovar [it’s actually a French film]. Fascinating exploration of identity with a main character who refuses to be what others want her to be – she dances to her own tune. Sadly she finds others do too!
  • ‘Good’: 4 votes
    • A strange mixed up leading lady whose behaviour left me puzzled. Interesting film.
    • Slow at times with periods of frenzy. What a mixed-up girl!
    • Interesting concept, but I did not warm to the main character.
    • Found Freddie hard to understand and sympathise with. Not sure what was driving her & why she was so difficult so often!
  • ‘Satisfactory’: 2 votes
    • Very good reunion scene between mother and child. Otherwise, a disappointment, given the high quality of the previous three films I have seen this year.
    • Every time I thought I had a handle on it, it changed.
  • ‘Poor’: 1 vote
    • Rather tedious & did not hold my attention.

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We hope you all have a good summer and look forward to meeting up again when our next season (of 10 films) begins on 17 October. Details of the films to be shown will be updated on our website as they are finalised on the 2024/25 Season page.

Next Presentation: Return To Seoul (Wednesday 17 April)

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-6Days -4Hours -18Minutes -1Seconds

Chelmsford Theatre Studio, Fairfield Road – Wednesday 17th April @ 8PM

When her planned holiday to Japan is cancelled at the 11th hour, on a whim, a twenty-five-year-old French woman books a flight to Korea, the country she was born in before being adopted by a French couple, for the very first time. She decides to track down her biological parents, but her journey takes a surprising turn.

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Our Previous Presentation: Under The Fig Trees

Audience reaction to “Under The Fig Trees”

Audience reaction to “Under The Fig Trees”

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