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The Sleeping Beauty of East Finchley

Directed by Seamus Rea2011UK50 mins

Choirs aren’t just for high school kids, and neither is romance, as Joan discovers. Middle-aged Joan is sleepwalking through a dreary life, tending to her ailing mother and working a boring office job. Her only pleasure is in the songs she sings in the solitude of her room. Enter Patricia, her mum’s visiting nurse, who persuades Joan to join a women’s choir and share her voice with the rest of the world. Complications ensue when Joan, troubled by her Catholic faith and fears of public exposure drops out of the choir just as it heads to the big LGBT music festival. Will Pat have to sing solo?

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I Still Love Them (Je Les Aime Encore)

Michel’s whole life has revolved around one thing: Love. Seventy-nine years of romance later, he is trying to cope with his most recent breakup. This small incursion into a transgender person’s heart touches upon universal themes such as identity, sex, death, love, and growing old.

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Director
Seamus Rea
Year
2011
Country
UK
Running Time
50 mins
Language
English
Section
World Cinema
Program Note Writer
Monica Nolan

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