The Film Club are showing From the Land of the Moon (2016 – 120 minutes) (cert. 15), on November 1.
Set in a small village in 1950s France, this film stars Marion Cotillard as Gabrielle, a passionate and free-spirited young woman trapped in a loveless marriage. Her parents marry her off to José, an honest and loving Spanish farm worker who they think will make a respectable woman of her, but despite his devotion to her, she vows that she can never love him and lives like a prisoner bound by the conventions of the time.
Her chance of freedom comes when she is sent away to a cure in the Alps to heal her kidney stones, where she meets André, a dashing injured army veteran, who rekindles the passion buried inside her. She promises they will run away together but will anything stand in the way of true love?
Rye Community Centre, 7pm start, doors 6.30) (French language with English sub-titles).