Christmas party and screening "Soul Kitchen"

Reels Members and Guests' Christmas Party

Thursday 2nd December 2010
6.30pm Christmas drinks and special nibbles
7.30pm "Soul Kitchen"

Join us for the Reels @ Wehl Christmas party, where Christmas cheer will abound with champagne, wine and special nibbles. A cheerful, feelgood film about food, love and family will screen afterwards.

Soul Kitchen

Life is what happens while you’re busy making other plans… (John Lennon)

Soul Kitchen is about family and friends, about love, trust and loyalty and about the struggle to protect a place called home in an increasingly unpredictable world.

**** Margaret ****1/2 David

WINNER SPECIAL JURY PRIZE VENICE FILM FESTIVAL 2009

WINNER GOLDEN GNOME AUDIENCE AWARD, GERMAN FILM FESTIVAL AUSTRALIA 2010

WINNER C.I.C.A.E. PRIZE HAMBURG INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2009

Synopsis

Young restaurant owner Zinos is down on his luck. His girlfriend Nadine has moved to Shanghai, his Soul Kitchen customers are boycutting the new gourmet chef, and he’s having back trouble! Things start looking up when the hip crowd embraces his revamped culinary concept, but that doesn’t mend Zinos’s broken heart. He decides to fly to China for Nadine, leaving the restaurant in the hands of his unreliable ex-con brother Illias. Both decisions turn out disasterous: Illias gambles away the restaurant to a shady real estate agent and Nadine has found a new lover! But brothers Zinos and Illias might still have one last chance to get Soul Kitchen back if they can stop arguing and work together as a team.

"Soul Kitchen is cheerful, wild, colourful … thoroughly enjoyable" David Stratton, At the Movies

"Feelgood comedy" The Age

 Trailer

http://www.abc.net.au/atthemovies/txt/s2875039.htm

Read the full story on the making of Soul Kitchen

http://www.sharmillfilms.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2010/04/SOULKITCHEN_PR.pdf

Country of Origin: Germany
Language: German w/English subtitles
Duration: 99 minutes
Rating: MA
Director: Fatih Akin
Featuring: Adam Bousdoukos, Moritz Bleibtreu, Birol Unel

Next screening "Van Dieman's Land"

Thursday 18 November 2010

The true story of Australia's most notorious convict, Alexander Pearce

Hunger is a strange silence

**** David Stratton, ABC's At the Movies

The true story of Australia's most notorious convict, Alexander Pearce and his infamous escape into the beautiful yet brutal Tasmanian wilderness.

A point of no return for convicts banished from their homeland, Van Diemen's Land was a feared and dreaded penal settlement at the end of the earth. The entrance to its remote station of secondary punishment, Macquarie Harbour, was named 'Hell’s Gates' by its prisoners as a reference to the gates of hell in Dante's 'Inferno' - "Abandon all hope ye who enter here" - was plastered at the Harbour's mouth as a warning to all souls sent there.

In 1822, eight convicts escaped Macquarie Harbour in a fateful bid for freedom. This band of Irish, English and Scottish thieves were immediately hurled into chaos as their plan failed and they were thrust into the heart of a harsh and foreboding landscape. With little food or equipment, in a place these immigrants knew little about, they battled a merciless enemy - the unforgiving, barren land - a land where God wields an axe.

Official site

“http://www.vandiemensland-themovie.com/flashsite/

Review & Trailer

http://www.abc.net.au/atthemovies/txt/s2671830.htm



Rated MA  |  Runtime 104 minutes  |  Language English