Keswick Film Club - Orphans

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Sunday 14th November 5:30 PM

Orphans 

Director: Peter Mullan Country: UK
Cert: 18 Year: 1997 Length: 95 mins
Orphans

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Synopsis

Peter Mullan's debut feature is a painfully funny account of three brothers and their sister coming to terms with the death of their mother. A beautifully tailored mixture of pathos and gallows humour.

Ecumenical prize - Cannes Festival 1998.
Best Film Venice 1998

Critics

open_quote A magnificent, extraordinary, unmissable film close_quote The Evening Times


open_quote The best film I've seen in ma puff close_quote Irvine Walsh


open_quote Do yourself a big fat favour...go and see it close_quote J Ross



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Awards

Keswick Film Club won the Best New Film Society at the British Federation Of Film Societies awards in 2000.

Since then, the club has won Film Society Of The Year and awards for Best Programme four times and Best Website twice.

We have also received numerous Distinctions and Commendations in categories including marketing, programming and website.

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