GERRINGONG PICS AND FLICKS

  REMEMBER: FILM SCREENINGS NOW START AT 7.30PM EACH MONTH. The original French title of this film is  With love and fury  (  Avec amour et acharnement  , France, 2022). This direct translation perhaps better captures the focus of director Claire Denis, who is examining the anarchic drift of desire when an old love reappears in an established marriage and reignites inner fires.  In this love triangle, the characters of  Vincent Lindon  and Juliette Binoche experience these fires in a brutal way.  Sara - a truly exquisite work by Juliette Binoche,  is experiencing all that seems contradictory, diffuse and difficult to explain at first sight. She is pleased with her marriage, but at the same time she is magnetically attracted to a man who until recently was just part of the past. But this is no conventional melodrama. In the hands of this director it explores whether the power of desire and passion c...

FULL TIME  (À PLEIN TEMPS) À PLEIN TEMPS À PLEIN TEMPS WINNER - 2021 VENICE FILM FESTIVAL (ORRIZONTI) - Best Actress, Best Director  WINNER - 2021 LES ARCS FILM FESTIVAL - Cineuropa Award (Best Film), Best Actress   In his second feature film,  Full Time , French writer-director Éric Gravel transforms a week in the life of a working mother into a heart-pounding thriller. Laure Calamy (Sybil; My Donkey, My Lover, and I; Call My Agent) stars as Julie, a single mother of two who lives in the suburbs and commutes to Paris to work as head chambermaid at a five-star hotel. Over the course of the week we spend with her, everything that could go wrong does go wrong as she balances life and prepares for a job interview that can give her and her children a better life.   We’re used to going to the movies to watch men do conventionally stressful male tasks – like fight a war — but the care work that women so often do is rarely acknowledged as equal...

  The Olive Tree This is a small, soulful film that has two stars: the feisty Spanish actress Anna Castillo and a vast, gnarled, thousand-year-old  olive tree.   The Olive Tree  is a deeply human story about the broken and unbroken bonds between generations.  It follows a young Spanish woman’s literal and spiritual quest to recover a symbolically significant olive tree from its new owners, a German energy company. What triggers her quest is a minor incident that has major significance.  The Olive Tree  ends as a joyful, life-affirming film that shows the power of personal conviction and positive action.   [Alexa Dalby, Dog and Wolf magazine ] Genre: Comedy, Drama Original Language: Spanish (Spain) Director:Icíar Bollaín Producer:Juan Gordon, Michael Weber Writer:Paul Laverty Runtime: 1h 38m Join us for our regular first Friday of the month film. Gerrringong Town Hall, Fern Street Gerringong Friday, 2nd September ...

  A sensual, savvy and always sublime film by the great Spanish director, Pedro  Almodóvar . Parallel Mothers tells a story that’s simultaneously personal and political.  It’s an intimate tale of two women and their intertwined lives, but it’s also about Spain’s troubled history and the way strong women are linked for generations through the past, even as they help each other forge a happier future. Penelope Cruz plays Janis, an accomplished photographer living in Madrid. On the verge of turning 40, she happens to give birth on the same day as another single mum, 17-year-old Ana (the striking Milena Smit), her roommate at the hospital. Both are accidental mothers and they unexpectedly find themselves connecting in myriad, unexpected ways  during one of the most vulnerable and thrilling times in their lives. They share all the elation and exhaustion and more. Parallel Mothers is the latest great film created by the magical connection between director Pedro...

    Pics and Flicks is having a special "Revel in May" performance  by jazz trio Waveteller  to entertain you before the film so don't be late! A Stitch in Time A heart-warming story about a former dressmaker who reinvents herself after befriending a young Chinese fashion designer, who inspires her to follow her dream.  A Stitch in Time  is a joyful and moving journey that beautifully celebrates age, culture, and the diversity of Australian life. When Liebe’s (Maggie Blinco) partner Duncan (Glenn Shorrock) loses his job singing at the local pub, the former dressmaker is inspired by Hamish (Hoa Xuande), a young Chinese fashion designer who she meets at the local markets. She decides to make clothes again to compensate for the loss of income. Friction arises as her long-compressed creativity is again allowed to bloom while Duncan's ebbs. Will their relationship survive? From the executive producer of  Ladies in Black  and writer/director S...

Welcome back to the movies with Gerringong Pics and Flicks. Our next film will be on 1st April, 2022.   Nomadland Following the economic collapse of a company town in rural Nevada, Fern (Frances McDormand) packs her van and sets off on the road exploring a life outside of conventional society as a modern-day nomad. At first, life on the road seems perilous and bleak, with inclement weather and cold economic realities giving Fern the chills. Yet she gradually discovers the warmth of America’s travelling community, helped by inspirational figures such as the charismatic Bob (Bob Wells), at whose communal desert rendezvous new life skills are passed around by those who are not “homeless” but simply “houseless”.NOMADLAND features real nomads Linda May, Swankie and Bob Wells as Fern’s mentors and comrades in her exploration through the vast landscape of the American West. Frances McDormand is typically convincing as Fern – another indomitable outsider role in which she immerses herself ...

   We   were hoping to be back to film screenings by now but it's not to be. COVID has popped up again, and the increasing risk to us all is serious.  If you are eligible for a vaccination, please get it, wear a mask, sign-in, and keep your distance.  It's your responsibility to protect yourself and everyone around you. Pics and Flicks has decided that in the interests of everyone's health and safety we will defer our film screenings for the rest of 2021.  So, sadly, there will be no film in September, October, November or December 2021. As we usually do not screen a film in January, we will be back in action on 4th February. *  All annual memberships will be deferred and restart in February 2022. * Holders of 10-tix cards will be able to use them as soon as we are back in 2022. Please keep yourselves safe until we're all together again at Pics and Flicks.