FEEDBACK from our audience
Previously shown films in date order with audience feedback notes.​
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Year 2025/6
Ama Gloria
Film info:
Date shown:
France - 2023
September 2025
Synopsis
Although a film of barely over 80 minutes; it leaves a huge impression - all the insecurities of a child losing those most important to her - beautifully and heartbreakingly portrayed.
Gloria, from Cape Verde, is like a lot of nannies who have to leave their own children to go to other countries and raise the children of people with more money. In Paris she cares for Cleo whose mum died when she was a baby. Cleo’s father is gentle but remote, still reeling from grief, so it's Gloria who is the sun in Cleo's life. Then Gloria’s mother dies and she goes home to look after her own children.
Invited to spend summer in Cape Verde until a new nanny is found, Cleo is delighted when reunited with Gloria but finds her busy with family and own affairs, and so has to confront the reality that she no longer has a claim to be the centre of Gloria’s world.
Dreamlike sequences of animated artwork in watery tones periodically punctuate the film, showing Cléo’s way of seeing the world.
Audience Star rating: 87%
Audience Feedback
For most - ‘great graphics and so colourful’, although a couple found them overlong and distracting.
The acting was much praised, particularly that of the little girl who although just six years old at the time of filming gave a performance so open and natural.
Further praise from the audience included: ‘absolutely fantastic; totally immersive; a beautiful film that captures the way a child is very much the centre of their own universe; very moving; a fascinating topic rarely addressed’.
However for some it was all ‘a little bit too twee - we could see where this was going from the very first scene.’
Especially thought provoking for anyone who had or knew others who have employed nannies in these circumstances; perhaps the message is - employ a local nanny?
The Truffle Hunters
Film info:
Date shown:
Itay - 2021
January 2022
Synopsis
Deep in the forests of Piedmont, Italy, a handful of men, seventy or eighty years young, hunt for the rare and expensive white Alba truffle, guarding their location with absolute secrecy.
Audience Star rating: 89%
Audience Feedback
So enjoyable. Delightful, lyrical! Beautiful scenery and internal scenes. An uplifting film. Lovely glimpse into a small and possibly threatened life. An intriguing portrayal of a pastoral lifestyle.
Beautiful shots of landscapes that look like paintings by Brueghel and interior shots that are almost like tableaux, mostly of two men or a man and his dog. Left a smile on your face.