2 February 2010, 19.30
CinéCCI : Man of Aran
admission free, reservation recommended, in English with French subtitles, 73 mins, 1934



Director Robert Flaherty used a family as the centre-piece of this famous documentary in which he captured great ocean waves crashing into dramatic limestone cliffs, filmed storm-wracked fishing excursions to harpoon basking sharks, showed how to grow potatoes on craggy land that has little soil but an abundance of seaweed, and underlined what it really meant to live yoked to the necessity of back-breaking labour on the remote Aran Islands.

With Colman « Tiger » King, Maggie Dirrane, Michael Dillane 


  

 
Tuesday 2 March 2010, 19.30
CinéCCI : The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
admission free, reservation recommended, in English with French subtitles, 90 mins, 2008



Young Bruno lives a wealthy lifestyle in early wartime Germany along with his mother, elder sister, and SS Commandant father. To his dismay, the family relocates to the countryside where his father has a new assignment. In search of company of his own age, Bruno befriends Shmuel, a boy strangely dressed in striped pyjamas who lives behind a high fence. The consequences are devastating. Based on the best-selling novel by John Boyne, The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas is a remarkable story masterfully told through the eyes of an innocent child.
With Vera Farmiga, David Thewliss, Asa Butterfield

John Boyne will be at the CCI on 4 March 2010: see Literature