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Subject: Club Filmosophy at Roxy - Haneke's 71 Fragments... 26th NOV
The Club Filmosophy series of evenings in association with Tartan Video
continues on Monday 26th November with a rare screening and discussion of
Michael Haneke's 71 Fragments of a Chronicle of Chance.
Club Filmosophy is an evening dedicated to revealing the thinking behind
great filmmaking and has had regular nights at the Bfi Southbank as well as a
very popular first night at Roxy in September with Lars Von Trier's Europa.
Led this month by guest speaker David Sorfa, the night begins with a short
introduction to the film, and after the screening the audience are invited to
take part in a free flowing discussion.
The weekly screenings take place at Roxy and as always, are free entry.
Roxy Bar & Screen
128-132 Borough High St, SE1 1LB
www.roxybarandscreen.com
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71 Fragments is the third film in Haneke's "Emotional Glaciation" trilogy,
preceded by The Seventh Continent and Benny's Video. All three are based on
stories culled by Haneke from Austrian newspapers and offer a bleak analysis
of bourgeois ennui. With a seemingly senseless shooting as its core, 71
Fragments takes causality as its main theme and presents a meditation on the
relationship between fate and chance which can be seen as fundamentally
political. Whether that politics is one of nihilism or of engagement is,
however, unclear. The film inevitably builds to a grim conclusion and
investigates issues of free will and the place of the foreigner in our
society.
The surprising "overperformance" of Haneke's Caché in 2005 and last year's
crossover hit Hidden, has led to a popular interest in the work of one of
Europe's most uncompromising contemporary filmmakers and his earlier films
demonstrate an astonishing sophistication that it is necessary to revisit.
Haneke's films tend to put the spectator centre-stage and ask difficult
questions about audience enjoyment and complicity in a manner reminiscent of
Fassbinder.
Monday 26th November
Introduction starts at 7:30pm
FREE entry (seats on a first-come first-served - arrive early to avoid
disappointment)
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For more information on the other FREE film screenings at Roxy, please
visit: www.roxybarandscreen.com
One of the best five cinemas in London - Time Out
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