Melancholian 3 Houenetta
Friday 18th November, 1:10pm, Tyneside Cinema
Monday 21st November, 8:30pm, Tyneside Cinema
Wednesday 23rd November, 7:30pm, Kino
This film left us speechless when we first saw it. The 3 Rooms of Melancholia takes a look at the effects of the Chechen War on both Russian and Chechen children. Divided into three episodes (the ‘rooms’) – ‘Longing’, ‘Breathing’ and ‘Remembering’ – it chronicles the stories of lives corrupted by hatred and the evils of war. From the story of the young boys of a military academy outside St Petersburg, to the devastated streets of Grozny, where a dying mother gives up her children to the care of a makeshift orphanage. This is not easy viewing, but it is nothing short of a masterpiece. Don’t miss it.
Walloping... Harrowing... Rapturous... One of those rare films that deserves to be called 'poetic. VARIETY
Quietly Devastating! Mesmerising! Undeniably Powerful! TIME OUT
Director: Pirjo Honkasalo / Documentary / Russian with English subtitles
104 minutes / Finland, Germany, Sweden and Denmark 2004
