The Williams Lake Film club will screen its next film this coming Tuesday, Feb. 24, at the Gibraltar Room starting at 7 p.m.
Our next feature film is Calvary by writer/director John Michael McDonagh with Brendan Gleeson. It is an Irish/British co-production and was filmed in Rush in the County of Dublin, Ireland.
Running time 102 min., Rated R. We will try for subtitles as Irish is not always the easiest to understand.
Calvary is the second part in writer/director’s Michael McDonagh’s “glorified suicide trilogy.”
The first part we have seen a couple of years ago, The Guard.
In Calvary, Gleeson portrays a shaggy, rumpled, bearded priest who is faced with sinister and troubling circumstances set in motion by a member of his congregation who had been sexually abused as a child.
Now he wants revenge, but not the easy kind. He wants to kill and sacrifice an innocent priest for sins against the innocents.
What ensues is a pitch-black comedy drama with a loving soul. It is a wonder to watch Gleeson face his very own personal Calvary.
McDonagh himself was a one-time altar boy, and one wonders, what happened?
Calvary has been called a bruising beauty of a film, a great description. On his rounds through his parish, Father James (Gleeson) encounters it all it seems. Despair, wrath, lust, pride, cruelty, blasphemy, greed, even a love triangle.
I do not think any other actor could have carried this off as Brendan Gleeson does. He is simply fascinating.
We also will screen another segment of Shred the Nar by our local boy wonders, Oliver Berger and Morgan (Stockwell) Day.
Right now they are having an awesome time discovering all the different ski hills in Alberta. You can check out their facebook page and also find their film on youtube.
That reminds me, the Williams Lake Film Club also has a facebook page. Check it out.
And we will have a birthday cake following the screening of Calvary.
Ruth Lord, our oldest (she will be 97!!!), most loyal and only honorary member of our club will be honoured with the cake.
But she will want you to know that you are all invited to share it with her after we sing a rousing Happy Birthday to Ruth, (and to you Tilly).
Back-doors open at 6:30 p.m. Admission is $9; $8 for members, and $6 for seniors (65+) and students.
Proceeds help to support the LDA, the Williams Lake Chapter of the Association for Students with Learning Disabilities, for one-on-one tutoring.
