Thriller kicks off film club season

9:30am Thursday 2nd October 2008

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GEORGE Clooney is coming to a library near you, thanks to Wyre Forest Film Club.

His edgy thriller, Michael Clayton, is the first movie that will be shown at Kidderminster Library by the not-for-profit film club, run by volunteers, over the next two months on Tuesday nights.

The club, supported by Worcestershire Arts, is bringing films to Kidderminster unlikely to be seen at multiplexes but intended to stimulate the imagination.

They feature stories told in unexpected ways, films that look better on the bigger screen and that can make movie-goers laugh or cry.

Michael Clayton opens the season next Tuesday.

Starring Clooney as a fixer for a large American law firm, the cast also includes Brits, Tom Wilkinson and Tilda Swinton and the late Sydney Pollack.

Among the films to follow will be The Keys to the House, starring Charlotte Rampling, and Distant Voices, Still Lives, Terence Davies’s semi-autobiographical tale of growing up in the Liverpool of the 1940s and 50s.

Private Fears in Public Places transfers Alan Ayckbourn’s play about six people and their love affairs to Paris. Tugging at the heartstrings rather than constantly hitting the funny bone, there are still lighter moments to vary the mood.

Last up, on November 25, is La Vie en Rose, the biopic of French singer, Edith Piaf, convincingly played by Mario Cotillard.

From street urchin to national icon, most aspects of Piaf’s extraordinary life are played out to the soundtrack of her unique voice. It also features Gerard Gepardieu.

More information about Wyre Forest Film Club is available from Jez Hamblett at Kidderminster Library by emailing jezhamblett@yahoo.com or Simon Heng, on 01562 740496 or dim sum@heng.fsnet.co.uk