Join members of the Rotary Club of Ottawa-Stittsville for their International Film Series in collaboration with the Film Circuit of the Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF). Each month a different film will be shown.
Small Things Like These (British/Irish, English, 98 min) showing on May 26.
Cillian Murphy, Oscar-winning actor fresh from Oppenheimer, plays Bill Furlong, an Irish coal merchant who witnesses the abuses of the Magdalene Sisters in the laundry workhouses set up for young homeless women in Ireland. Murphy, who is also the film’s producer, has noted the parallels with Canada’s residential schools. The film is based on the narrative of Claire Keegan’s book of the same title and exposes the horrors of some of the nunneries in Ireland in the 1980s. But it also shows how Bill is able to confront his own past, and the harsh realities of the present. The film’s cinematography, sound design, and score are striking, and the cast delivers stellar performances.
Please contact Charles Mossman (charcz@yahoo.com) for the 4:00pm showing, or Sandra Burt (sburt@uwaterloo.ca) for the 7:00pm showing. The price of a pass for the four films is $60. If you cannot attend all the films, you may send a substitute attendee. Note that these films deal with mature subjects and are not suitable for children.