Film & Discussion (West London) : The Night of the Shooting Stars

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The London Christian Film Society is a community of film lovers and filmmakers who gather to watch great cinema, make films, and explore the questions that art leaves behind. One of the most acclaimed works of Italian cinema, The Night of the Shooting Stars follows a group of villagers crossing the Tuscan countryside as war closes around them during the final days of the German occupation. The story is told as memory rather than history. Facts, legends, childhood impressions, rumours, dreams and reality mingle together until the film begins to feel less like a reconstruction of the past than an act of remembering it. The Taviani brothers possessed a gift that few filmmakers have ever shared. They could look directly at violence, suffering and political catastrophe without becoming cynical. Their cinema is filled with peasants, children, old women, partisans, farmers and dreamers, yet everything is illuminated by a sense of poetry and wonder. A film about war, certainly, but also about storytelling itself: how communities remember, how myths emerge from history, and how hope survives even when reason suggests it should not. We shall begin with a brief introduction at 6:30pm, then go into the screening, followed by a discussion. Location: West London. Message the us individually for the address.

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