{"id":2865,"date":"2015-08-18T15:26:33","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T14:26:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/?page_id=2865"},"modified":"2016-02-07T08:18:16","modified_gmt":"2016-02-07T07:18:16","slug":"west","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/forestrowfilmsociety.org\/news\/films\/west\/","title":{"rendered":"West"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Friday, 06 November 2015: West<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\r\n

Friday, 06 November 2015, 20:00<\/p>\r\n

Venue<\/strong>: (see Locations and Tickets<\/a> for further details)<\/p>\r\n

Programme category<\/strong>: Forest Row Film Society<\/p>\r\n\rDirector: Christian Schwochow, Germany 2014, 102 mins, 15<\/p>\n

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“Intelligently scripted by Heide Schwochow (the director\u2019s mother) and resting on Triebel\u2019s finely nuanced performance, this offers a low-key counterpoint to Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck\u2019s Oscar-winning The Lives of Others<\/em>, and is intriguing on personal and political levels.” Mark Kermode The Observer<\/i><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

A woman, whose boyfriend is mysteriously killed in an accident, flees East Berlin with her son in the late 70s. In a refugee transit camp in West Berlin they meet the same Kafkaesque bureaucracy as in the east. A tense drama about survival in a climate of paranoia and psychological oppression.<\/p>\n

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“Schwochow’s intimate, handheld camerawork often feels like surveillance, which transforms mundane events into the menacing moments of a psychological thriller” Village Voice<\/i><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Further reading<\/h4>\n
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  1. The Guardian<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. The Independent<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Empire Magazine<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. Slant Magazine<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Trailer<\/h4>\n