Giving arthouse films an airing

Cork Cine Club’s new season of films starts on January 23 at St John’s Central College with a screening of the 2012 French film Rebellion (L’ordre et la morale) directed by Mathieu Kassovitz (La Haine), who also stars in the film.

This political drama is based on the brutal repression in 1988 of an indigenous insurrection in the French Pacific Island territory of New Caledonia.

Ben Cuddihy of Cork Cine Club says of Kassovitz: “He’s a really interesting film-maker because he’s a bit of a rebel himself, always questioning France’s place in the world. Rebellion is about a hostage situation in a French colony. It’s about how President Mitterand sent in police to quell the rebellion because he had an election coming up and was using it to make him look good.