Can you believe it’s October? I have no idea where the year has gone. Actually, I have no idea where the last hour went thanks to daylight savings.
Can you believe it’s October? I have no idea where the year has gone. Actually, I have no idea where the last hour went thanks to daylight savings.
People are already asking me about our summer plans and while I’ve given it no thought as yet, I do know I won’t be going on holiday with people who bicker as much as they do in the French charmer Little White Lies (Tuesday 2nd October, 8.30pm)
In Little White Lies, well known French actor and director Guillaume Canet (Tell No One) has gathered an impressive ensemble cast, including Jean Dujardin, Marion Cotillard, Gilles Lellouche and Francois Cluzet, to play out his contemporary version of The Big Chill.
It’s a story about a group of narcissistic Parisian friends who decide to carry on with their summer holiday plans, even though one of their dear friends has been in a serious road accident and is in intensive care. The accident unnerves everyone and while on holiday at Cap Ferrat underlying tensions and rivalries between the characters are revealed. While this comedy-drama is too long, it’s also a very easy film to sit back with and enjoy getting caught up in other people’s problems.
This week also marks the Sound of October, with Rialto Channel playing a collection of music documentaries every Thursday night throughout the month.
Kicking off the series is Lennonyc (Thursday 4th October, 8.30pm), a film by documentary maker Michael Epstein that chronicles John Lennon’s post-Beatle life in New York during the 70s.
It’s a fascinating, intimate documentary, thanks in large part to the co-operation of Yoko Ono, that takes you into the studio as John finds a new creative lease of life, and inside John and Yoko’s intense relationship. It covers their activism, their deportation battle against the US government, John and Yoko’s break up and re-conciliation, and, most lovingly, John’s time as a stay at home dad.
Thanks to the use of archive news footage and radio and television interviews, Lennon is able to tell much of this story, his story, himself. For this reason alone Lennonyc is well worth catching.
And finally this week, the fiery and dysfunctional Italian American Rizzo family entertain us in City Island (Saturday 6th October, 8.30pm).
The Rizzo’s live in a quaint fishing village on the Bronx enclave of City Island. Vince Rizzo (Andy Garcia) is a prison officer who secretly dreams of being an actor, his daughter (played by Andy Garcia’s real life daughter Dominik García-Lorido), is a college student who moonlights as a stripper, his young son has a sexual obsession with overweight women, and his wife is flirting with the sexy new gardener, who just happens to be Vince’s secret long lost son.
As you can imagine, there’s quite a lot to sort out at the Rizzo house. A blend of drama, farce, and comedy, the fun is in watching how all these secrets are revealed.
Enjoy.