Maldon Film Club's season continued in April with the screening of The Worst Person in the World and the classic Guess Who's Coming to Dinner.

The Club meets at Maldon Town Hall. Doors open at 7.30pm and films begin at 8pm. The programme for 2022/23 continues until May 24 and the last two films to be screened, both of which are Oscar winners, are The Father and Drive My Car.

The Father, starring Anthony Hopkins and Olivia Coleman, will be shown on Wednesday 10 May. Having just scared off his recent caregiver, Anthony, an ailing, octogenarian Londoner gradually succumbing to dementia, feels abandoned when concerned Anne, his daughter, tells him she's moving to Paris. Confused and upset, against the backdrop of a warped perspective and his rapid, heart-rending mental decline, Anthony is starting to lose his grip on reality, struggling to navigate the opaque landscape of present and past. Now, as faded memories and glimpses of lucidity trigger sudden mood swings, dear ones, Anthony's surroundings, and even time itself become distorted. Why has his younger daughter stopped visiting? Who are the strangers that burst in on him?

On Wednesday 24, the last film of this season will be Drive My Car. Two years after his wife's unexpected death, Yusuke Kafuku (Hidetoshi Nishijima), a renowned stage actor and director, receives an offer to direct a production of Uncle Vanya at a theatre festival in Hiroshima. There, he meets Misaki Watari (Toko Miura), a taciturn young woman assigned by the festival to chauffeur him in his beloved red Saab 900. As the production's premiere approaches, tensions mount among the cast and crew, not least between Yusuke and Koshi Takatsuki, a handsome TV star who shares an unwelcome connection to Yusuke's late wife. Forced to confront painful truths raised from his past, Yusuke begins - with the help of his driver - to face the haunting mysteries his wife left behind.

The Club's 2023/24 season will commence on Tuesday 5 September 2023 and information about the films to be screened will be available shortly.

In March, Maldon Film Club won the Art and Culture Award at the town's Annual Community Awards, "for providing much needed culture to our town, offering a multitude of films and entertainment throughout the year".

Annual memberships cost £25, which entitles members to free admission to all films. In addition, there are a limited number of places for junior members aged 16-18 in full time education and training at the reduced cost of £18 and members may bring one guest at a cost of £3 per film. Membership is open to all and new members are always welcome.

For more information, visit Maldon Film Club's website or contact John Salisbury on 07905 971 608.

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