Batcombe Film Society – February films

Batcombe Film Society is showing two films in February, The Guilty and Styx. 

The Guilty, on Friday 7th February,  is a totally compelling and gripping thriller set in Copenhagen.  Deskbound police officer Asger Holm responds to an emergency call from a kidnapped woman but the call is abruptly disconnected and so begins the search.  Confined to the station, Holm (played superbly by Jakob Cedergren) has to use his skill and intuition in the race against time to try to locate the woman and her assailant, but we also slowly learn about the incident that left him being restricted to desk duties . . . dir. Gustav Möller / 2018 / 85 mins / 15  (Danish with subtitles)

The second film on Friday 21st is Styx.  Rike (Susanne Wolff) is a successful emergency doctor in Cologne but has a long-held dream to sail her yacht solo from Gibraltar to Ascension Island in the Atlantic.  Her trip takes a very different course though, after a storm and an encounter with a stricken boat loaded with refugees.  She tries her best to help but as time goes by, the situation worsens and Rike has to face impossible moral decisions.  Very tense, convincing and thought-provoking, with little dialogue – all the action is on the screen.  dir. Wolfgang Fischer / 2018 / 95 mins / 12A (English and German with subtitles)

Doors open from 7.15pm with the screening at 7.45pm.  For further information, please contact Ann Biddle 01749 850307.