Viva Lewes April 2015 Issue #103
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Child’s Pose<br />
Romanian cinematic revival<br />
on this month: cinema<br />
The last decade has witnessed a remarkable revival<br />
in the fortunes of Romanian cinema. It started with<br />
Cristi Puiu’s The Death of Mr Lazarescu winning the<br />
Un Certain Regard prize at the 2005 Cannes Film<br />
Festival. That was followed by Cristian Mungiu’s<br />
4 Months, 3 Weeks & 2 Days going one better at Cannes in 2007, carrying off the Palme D’Or. Since<br />
then, there’s been no lack of praise from the critics for films such as Mungiu’s follow-up Beyond the<br />
Hills (2012), Corneliu Porumboiu’s sophisticated and witty satire of police bureaucracy, Police, Adjective<br />
(2009) and Radu Muntean’s Tuesday, After Christmas (2010), a brilliant study of the emotional fall-out of<br />
adultery. Unfortunately, distribution of Romanian films in this country has grown increasingly haphazard.<br />
Some never get released, others don’t make it beyond London. The Duke of York’s, where I first<br />
saw both the aforementioned Cannes Festival winners, seems to have thrown in the towel.<br />
So it’s especially enterprising of <strong>Lewes</strong> Film Club to be showing Calin Peter Netzer’s Child’s Pose<br />
(2013). Netzer has been winning film festival awards across Europe for more than a decade, but Child’s<br />
Pose (Golden Bear winner at Berlin) is the director’s first feature to secure UK distribution. Luminita<br />
Gheorghiu plays Cornelia, an overbearing mother of sixty, moving heaven and earth to extricate her<br />
worthless son, Barbu, from the manslaughter charges he faces when, speeding, he knocks down and<br />
kills a fourteen year old girl. Highly recommended. David Jarman<br />
All Saints, Fri 3, 8pm. lewes-filmclub.com<br />
Farley Farm House & gallery<br />
Home of the Surrealists<br />
Experience the extraordinary atmosphere of the Sussex home of the<br />
Surrealists Lee Miller and Roland Penrose whose friends and guests<br />
included Picasso, Max Ernst, Man Ray and Miró. We re-open for our<br />
<strong>2015</strong> season on Sunday 5 th <strong>April</strong> with 50 minute guided tours, two new<br />
gallery exhibitions and the sculpture garden to explore.<br />
www.farleyfarmhouse.co.uk<br />
Farley Farm House<br />
Muddles Green, Chiddingly<br />
East Sussex, BN8 6HW<br />
Tel: 01825 872 856<br />
Open to visitors every Sunday from <strong>April</strong> - October <strong>2015</strong> from 10. 00 am - 3.30 pm
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