The 2002-03 Season was split between the Little Theatre, in Newtown, and Chester Steam Mill.
2002-03 Season
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Buena Vista Social Club
Audience Rating: 8.47
In this fascinating Oscar-nominated documentary, American guitarist Ry Cooder brings together a group of legendary Cuban folk musicians (some in their 90s) to record a Grammy-winning CD in their native city of Havana. The result is a spectacular compilation of concert footage from the group’s gigs in Amsterdam and New York City’s famed Carnegie Hall,…
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The Closet
Audience Rating: 8.90
A man spreads the rumour of his fake homosexuality with the aid of his neighbour, to prevent his imminent firing at his work.
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Love and Death on Long Island
Audience Rating: 6.04
Giles De’Ath is a widower who doesn’t like anything modern. He goes to movies and falls in love with film star, Ronnie Bostock. He then investigates everything about the movie and Ronnie. After that he travels to Long Island city where Ronnie lives and meets him, pretending that Ronnie is a great actor and that’s…
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At The Height Of Summer
Audience Rating: 6.33
Hanoi comes across almost picture-perfect in director Tran Anh Hung’s beautiful, elegiac tale about the lives and loves of three Vietnamese sisters. A mood characteristic of Hung’s films is set early on with the vivid sounds of birds, insects and water and the way the lighting enhances the subtle use of color. They all combine…
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Little Otik
Audience Rating: 6.18
When a childless couple learn that they cannot have children, it causes great distress. To ease his wife’s pain, the man finds a piece of root in the backyard and chops it and varnishes it into the shape of a child. However the woman takes the root as her baby and starts to pretend that…
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Butterfly’s Tongue
Audience Rating: 8.33
The film centres on Moncho and his coming-of-age experience in Galicia in 1936. Moncho develops a close relationship with his teacher Don Gregorio who introduces the boy to different things in the world. While the story centres on Moncho’s ordinary coming-of-age experiences, tensions related to the looming Spanish Civil War periodically interrupt Moncho’s personal growth…
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The Dish
Audience Rating: 7.57
The true story of how the Parkes Radio Telescope was used to relay the live television of man’s first steps on the moon, during the Apollo 11 mission in 1969.
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Chocolat
Audience Rating: 6.21
A fable of emotional liberation and chocolate. A mother and daughter move to a small French town where they open a chocolate shop. The town, religious and morally strict, is against them as they represent free-thinking and indulgence. When a group of Boat Gypsies float down the river the prejudices of the Mayor leads to…