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Love According to Dalva [France]

LOVE ACCORDING TO DALVA [France/Belgium], Thursday 12 October, 8pm

By archive, Season 24 Autumn 2023

Online booking is appreciated and we cover the cost of your booking fee. Click here to buy your ticket for Love According to Dalva.

Made with painstaking care and sensitivity, this debut feature from Belgian film-maker Emmanuelle Nicot is about a child victim of grooming and rape who takes the side of her abuser.

After her abusive father is arrested, 12-year-old Dalva is taken into care. Acting more like an adult than a child, her social workers and new roommates find it difficult to connect with Dalva. Gradually with their help, she accepts that her relationship with her father was not normal, allowing her to experience the joys of childhood she was previously denied.

Tackling difficult subject matter with the utmost care and sensitivity, Love According to Dalva is a remarkable film about one young girl’s journey as she emerges from the most horrific situation. Writer / director Emmanuelle Nicot has made an exceptional and assured debut – a compassionate exploration of hope and recovery. Young Zelda Samson excels in an extraordinarily challenging lead role.

This deserved award-winner at Cannes last year manages the tricky feat of mining difficult and potentially lurid material without a single exploitative beat. – The Times [UK]

An intense film about trauma and its devastating consequences. I can’t think of another movie I was so reluctant to watch, but after it started I couldn’t look away. – The Guardian

First-time feature director Emmanuelle Nicot paints an achingly beautiful portrait of friendship, recovery and identity through a young girl’s childhood sexual abuse story. – Little White Lies

It’s an uncomfortable watch, but this assured French-language debut from director Emmanuelle Nicot negotiates its disturbing subject matter with delicacy, sensitivity and honesty. – The Observer

  • LOVE ACCORDING TO DALVA
  • France/Belgium 2022 | Language: French | 87 minutes | Cert: 15A
  • Director: Emmanuelle Nicot
  • Cast: Zelda Samson, Alexis Manenti, Fanta Guirassy
  • Foreign language films are subtitled.  Cert: CLUB for over 18s.
  • A short film may be shown before the feature.
  • BOOKING
  • Tickets: €8.50/€7 concession
  • Cork Cine Club absorbs the cost of online booking fees.
  • Book online: https://bit.ly/Dalva-12thOct
  • Pay at the door by card or cash. Exact change is appreciated.

The Beasts, Spain, 26 Oct

THE BEASTS [Spain], Thursday 26 October, 8pm

By archive, Season 24 Autumn 2023

Online booking is appreciated and we cover the cost of your booking fee.  Click here to buy your ticket for The Beasts.

A French couple’s dream of the good life in rural northern Spain descends into all-out war with the locals in Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s superbly acted drama.

A French couple are living their dream of moving to the Galician countryside and setting up their own small farm. Their refusal to sell their land to developers has created tensions with local brothers who want the money for a chance at a new life. Tensions boil over after an act of sabotage leads to increasingly tense and violent confrontations between the neighbours.

Rodrigo Sorogoyen’s engrossing thriller is a slow-burn in the best possible way. Aided by remarkably naturalistic performances, this is a methodical film where the tension builds and builds in a manner that’s utterly compelling. It dominated Spain’s Goya film awards, where it won in nine categories including Best Film.

🏆Dublin International Film Festival, 2023 – Best Film (Dublin Film Critics’ Circle)

🏆Goya Awards, 2023 – Winner of nine awards including Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Supporting Actor and Best Original Screenplay

🏆César Awards, 2023 – Best Foreign Film

A terrific, gripping drama that will cross cultural borders with ease. – Irish Times

★★★★★ a breathtakingly tense Galician thriller The Guardian

From its very first minute, this searing drama of rural strife, xenophobia and cultural hostility is filled with almost unbearable tension. – Hollywood Reporter

Sorogoyen has made a brilliantly written, superbly acted film with the grave heft of non-fiction: a glimpse of stark truths behind that lush Galician landscape. – Financial Times

Sorogoyen uses long, single-take scenes to capture the explosive buildup of tension; it’s a breathlessly compelling device that showcases the phenomenal quality of the acting. – Observer

98% Rotten Tomatoes

  • THE BEASTS
  • Spain/France 2022 | Language: Spanish/French | 137 minutes | Cert: CLUB
  • Director: Rodrigo Sorogoyen
  • Cast: Denis Ménochet, Marina Foïs, Luis Zahera, Diego Anido
  • Foreign language films are subtitled.  Cert: CLUB for over 18s.
  • A short film may be shown before the feature.
  • BOOKING
  • Tickets: €8.50/€7 concession
  • Cork Cine Club is absorbing cost of online booking fees.
  • Book online: https://bit.ly/TheBeasts-26thOct
  • Pay at the door by card or cash. Exact change is appreciated.