Phillip Road Films
Something slightly more sombre for the first screening of the month from Moving Image, the recently launched film club in Wivenhoe. Saturday evening at the Phillip Road Centre saw another healthy crowd come out to see London River, the Rachid Bouchareb French film, all about the aftermath of the July 7th bombings in London.
The sense of fear and paranoia on the streets of London immediately after the terrorist attacks is captured wonderfully on film. This is a world away from Wivenhoe on a chilly autumn evening, but somehow the blackened out Phillip Road Centre seemed to maintain the mood of the film.
July 7th 2005 was no laughing matter. There was some light relief however when some local Wivenhoe back garden firework displays interrupted the film. We also had a minor, minor projector problem, causing the temporary suspension of the film.
The able folk of Moving Image were quick to clear up the oversight. It was interesting to see how the slight halt had an affect on the remainder of the evening. Around thirty seconds of the plot was lost, and it was perhaps unfortunate that the otherwise platonic relationship between the two main characters returned post-projector woes, to see them sleeping together.
This was indeed quite a challenging film, and alas there was to be no happy ending. I even had to lend my handkerchief to *ahem* a fellow Moving Image member come the closing credits. We walked back up the High Street, surveyed the peace and calm, and realised that it is indeed a different world away, just over an hour away down the train line.
Keeping with the terrorist theme (blimey) and Moving Image is screening Four Lions in a fortnight. The Chris Morris piece of satire pokes fun at a group of hapless terrorists trying to carry out a British jihadist.
Before then and we have The Concert on 13th November:
“30 years after he was fired for hiring Jewish musicians, the former conductor of the Bolshoi orchestra seizes the opportunity to re-unite his former musicians in Paris in place of the current Bolshoi orchestra. Will this very special concert be a triumph?”
Not your average multiplex programme of events, not your average cinema. Long may the projector keep turning at Phillip Road.
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