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Lewes Art & About Film Club - French Season What’s on in Lewes’ Galleries this month (cont) Our cover artist Peter Messer will joining 40 or so others in an exciting exhibition in the Star Gallery (Castle Ditch Lane) which runs from October 30th to November 17th. Curator Hayley Mills has close links with India, and she devised the show having fallen in love with Indian miniature art. She decided to invite a number of artists she has contact with, from Sussex and from London as well as select graduates from the University of Brighton, to produce original art works for the show, which is entitled ‘Stardust’. The only limits she gave them was that the works had to be slightly smaller than A4 size. As well as Peter Messer, Lewes artists such Film as Club Marguerite opens its Horner, French season Hamish on Black, Friday Harold 19th Mockford, January (8pm) Tom Walker, with a Julian screening Bell, Caroline of Jean- Pierre Trant, Charles Melville’s Williams, much-lauded Richard 1969 Sorrell fi lm and The Charles Army in Gilvan the Shadows Cartwright (L’Armee (pictured Des right) Ombres), will released be represented. in reprint From earlier the this year. 25th Melville the gallery drew will on also his be own holding resistance its annual experiences Star Crafts in his adaptation Christmas of Show the Joseph showing Kessell work novel ranging of the same from name, pottery about to a group jewellery of mid- via dle-aged metal works resistance and trugs. fi ghters (A in trug occupied is a medieval France gardening between October basket 1942 particular and February to Sussex). 1943. The result is a hauntingly sombre piece. Unlike Lewes’ Hollywood latest gallery forays space, into Four the same Square subject, Fine Arts the movie (Mount makes Place) no has been set up by art consultant attempts to play to sentimental- Sonia Crivello, who has vast ism, but is suffused in a mood of experience in selling at art fairs pessimism and futility, in line with and has a number of nationally Melville’s own belief that ‘man renowned artists on her books is always defeated’. Critics new who she is going to exhibit in to the fi lm have been stunned by Melville’s directorial profi ciency and the fi lm’s striking cinematography. Viewers of the second fi lm on the weekend programme – the Sundance Audience award-winning Seducing Doctor Lewis or ‘La Grande Seduction’ – may be disappointed if they are expecting a racy tale of sexual intrigue. In fact the French-Canadian pic- the ture owes bright more new to gallery the tradition space. of She Ealing will comedy also use and the bears space traces for community of the typically projects. English First features up, an The exhibition Full Monty of and three Brassed different Off. artists, Whilst ‘Contrasting the Anglo-versions Elements’ set until themselves the 11th in the November, wake of a which post- features a ceramicist, an artist, industrialised Thatcher’s Britain, and a painter. Ceramicist Sotis Seducing Doctor Lewis turns to a Fillipides fell in love with this remote French-speaking island off country after discovering a type the coast of Canada. Faced with of clay in Stoke which is usually rising unemployment the island- used for stone sculpture, but he ers decide to take their economic future into their own hands by WWW.VIVALEWES.COM CINEMA ART making a bid for a grant to build a plastic factory. There is only one problem. In order to qualify for the award the island must prove itself as a functioning town complete with resident doctor. And so the collective effort to seduce Doctor Lewis begins - the Montreal based MD who has been sent out there after allegations of drug usage. Much of the plot focuses on the fashions islander’s misguided into delicate-looking efforts to woo pots: him by the cooking clay is his peppered favourite with dish, silica teaching which him sparkles to fi sh in and the light. enact- Manja ing a community Scott is an award-winning game of cricket. printer Champions who makes of the primitivist fi lm have hailed lino cuts it as which ‘crowd-pleasing’, recall her many ‘charming’, years in Africa; Sally McGill paints and ‘refreshing.’ Opponents have landscapes with a difference: they dismissed it as ‘over-sentimental- are viewed from above, abstractised’ and ‘patronising’. Go and see looking and in pastel shades of it on Sunday (21st Jan, 11am) to turquoise and blue. V make up your own mind. V Emma Robertson 15 11
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