Our aim is to promote an interest in film in the Pontardawe area.
We show films chosen by our members, but non-members are also very welcome to attend.
Our
venue is the Pontardawe Arts Centre, Herbert Street
Pontardawe, Swansea SA8 4ED
(01792) 863722
Our forthcoming films
Unless otherwise stated, we start our evening programme at 7:30pm, with the bar opening beforehand, at 7:00pm
Most films are also shown in the afternoon, starting at 2:00pm. Please check with the Arts Centre for afternoon timings.
Monday 12th May - Once and our Annual General Meeting
Monday 2nd June - I do (Prête-Moi Ta Main)
Tuesday 17th June - Blame it on Fidel (La Faute a Fidel)
and a special showing, Saturday 21st June - A Kind of Loving
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Monday 12th May
Once
Based in Dublin a modern day musical about a busker and an immigrant and their eventful week, as they write, rehearse and record songs that tell their love story.
We shall also be having our Annual General Meeting after showing this film. |
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Monday 2nd June
I do (Prête-Moi Ta Main)
A pretend-partner premise fuels Eric Lartigau’s French frolic. It’s an affably underachieving genre-spin. Chabat’s Luis is a successful parfumier and feckless bachelor resisting pairing-off campaigns from his mother and sisters. Exasperated, he employs a friend’s boho sister, Emma (Charlotte Gainsbourg), to ‘play’ his wife-to-be. The plan? She’ll jilt him at the altar, thereby immunising the heart-shattered ‘groom’ from future marital expectation. The best laid plans can go horribly and hilariously wrong.
But the old gender-tussle tune is played lightly and wittily, with a streak of mischief peppering any risk of schmaltz. |
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Blame It on Fidel is one of those rare films that maintain unwavering fidelity to a child’s view of the world (like Lukas Moodysson’s Together). The child in this case is Anna (Nina Kervel), a nine-year-old Parisian whose parents become left-wing activists during the early ’70s, upsetting her orderly bourgeois existence.
Anna’s mother (Julie Depardieu, daughter of Gérard) writes for Marie Claire; her father (Stefano Accorsi) is Spanish; and the arrival of Anna’s aunt—an anti-Franco exile—prompts the political transformation. The family moves out of its well-appointed house and into a cramped apartment, where they host late-night meetings for bearded young men who sing “Venceremos.” A typical Sunday family outing is now a massive street demonstration, disrupted by police tear gas.
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Saturday 21st June
A Kind of Loving
A Kind of Loving is a 1962 British film directed by John Schlesinger, based on the 1960 novel of the same name by Stan Barstow. The film was part of the British New Wave movement in film, and the genre commonly known as "kitchen sink drama".
We are showing the film as part of the celebrations for Stan Barstow’s 80th birthday - as he now lives in Pontardawe.
The plot: a young man (Alan Bates), inching his way up from working-class traditions via a white-collar job, finds himself trapped by the frightening reality of his girlfriend's (June Richie) pregnancy and is forced into marrying her and moving in with his mother-in-law (Thora Hird). |
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| Unless otherwise stated, our doors open at 2:00pm and 7:30pm. We frequently show a short film first, and our events are organised to allow for members to discuss our film programme and the film we’re showing |
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dmrea@pontardawefilm.co.uk
