£6.00
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Doors 2:00pm
Film 2:30pm
A film and book club for avid readers and cinephiles. Every second Sunday afternoon of the month, we meet to watch a film adaptation of a book or a writer’s biopic.
dir. Agnès Varda
year. 1985
country. France
run-time. 106 min
rating. 15
English subtitles
Book: Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost (2005)
To celebrate International Women’s Day, our March edition of the Film and Book Club is a screening of Vagabond, a riveting unravelling of an enigmatic and defiant young woman on the road, which won the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival 1985 for its director, Agnès Varda.
On the run from her past as a wage slave, Mona is sleeping rough in fields, living hand-to-mouth, wandering from brief chaotic relationships to chance encounters with labourers and university professors, who find her both charming and repulsive. A reckless free spirit or yet another lost soul?
This month, the screening is paired with the book, A Field Guide to Getting Lost by Rebecca Solnit - a combination of memoir, history and philosophy, and is a call to relinquish certainty for the joys and dangers of the unknown. Drifting from subject to subject, Solnit looks for what we find when we are lost - in the colour blue, Yves Klein's leap into space above a Parisian street and the story of Cabeza de Vaca, a Spanish adventurer who, finding himself lost in the Mississippi delta, walked west for 10 years.
Please join us after the screening for tea, cake and conversation.
“…the story of a young woman’s short, troubled life is cool, enigmatic and as gripping as any thriller. An unmissable film from this great director.”
