Holmfirth Film Festival

Dir. Bo Burnham (US 2018, 94mins, 15)

Hollywood's best films are in the coming of age genre. Obama's favourite film of last year is a bold and painfully funny take on the awkwardness of adolescence in an age of social media that looks and feels like the real thing. Elsie Fisher as the 13 year-old is simply brilliant.

Dir. Tom Harper (UK 2018, 101mins 15)

Jessie Buckley lights up the screen in her debut film with strong support from Julie Walters in a refreshingly unsentimental bittersweet film of a young wayward Glaswegian young mother who dreams of becoming a Nashville country star.

Dir. Danny Boyle (UK 2019 111mins 12)

Boyle directs this Richard Curtis romantic comedy about a struggling songwriter who wakes up to a world without The Beatles' songs in a charming toe-tapping crowd pleaser.

Dir. Benedikt Erlingson (Iceland 2018, 101mins 12)

Another wonderful success from Iceland. Hugely enjoyable taut comedy thriller about a lone female secret environmental activist who declares war on the local aluminium industry.

Dir. Henri-Georges Clouzot (France 1960, 128mins 15)

Bardot is magnificent in Clouzot's last masterpiece as the suicidal bohemian from the provinces with a troubled childhood who has killed her boyfriend. A scathing indictment of patriarchy and a forensic look at the nature of truth in a classic court case movie.

(Dir. David Wilkinson, UK 2018, 116mins PG)

Postcards from the 48% is a documentary in which British people who voted to remain in the EU discuss their reasons for campaigning to stop Brexit

Dir. Alice Rohrwacher (Italy, 2018, 130mins 12)

A kind-hearted sharecropper in rural Italy befriends a rich nobleman.  This Cannes winner is a beautiful, mysterious film combining magical realism and social commentary where events take a very strange turn in a modern Brothers Grimm fairy tale.  On the critics' list as one of the best films of the year. 

CAPERNAUM (CHAOS)

(Dir. Nadine Lasaki, Lebanon 2018, 126mins 15)

A young boy tries to sue his parents for ruining his life and is forced to live by his wits on the streets of Beirut. He finally seeks justice against them for 'giving him life'. Bafta and Globe winner and jury prize at Cannes, Lebanon's entry to the Oscars is a stunning neo-realist classic. A film of extreme emotions, it is compassionate and stirring. Loved by the critics and audiences.

Dir. Cristina Gallego & Ciro Guerra (Colombia 2018 125 mins)

Colombia's entry to the Oscars is a powerful and mesmerising drug gangster epic based on true events that has terrific performances and glorious cinematography: a Latin American Godfather.

 Dir. Robert Guediguian France 2018, 107)

For lovers of classic French cinema, a family drama about a dying restaurant owner/father and their squabbles set near Marseilles that is beautifully composed and acted, with lovely sense of place which somehow manages to erase our all current concerns.

Doors and bar open 6.30pm Film starts 7pm