What’s in a family?
River City Club is again opening its doors this weekend for two free screenings of movies from Azerbaijan and Taiwan.
Showing at 4 on Saturday is Asif Rustamov’s 2014 film “Down The River”, which is centred on Ali, the coach of a young rowing team in a small town. The team includes his son Ruslan who finds he can’t match his father’s strict standards and can’t connect with him. That’s because Ali is going through a mid-life crisis, where he wants to leave his wife Leyla, and start a new life with his Polish girlfriend Sasha. When an important race comes up, Ali removes his son from the team and opts for another student, which upsets his son very much. Soon after, a drastic tragedy occurs, leaving Ali distraught. The river, once his vocation, now becomes his atonement.
“When Love Comes” by Taiwanese director Tso-chi Chang, showing on Sunday also at 4, portrays a Chinese extended family who live together in an old district of Taipei. They run the restaurant below, where customers come to gamble, requiring them to pay off the police. Members of the dysfunctional family include the father who is always drunk, an autistic brother, an aged father, a first wife who is infertile, a mistress who is accepted by the first wife, and her rebellious daughter, who is the chief protagonist of the movie.
The film won nine awards at Taiwan’s Golden Horse Festival (considered the Chinese-language Oscars), including the Best Film and Audience Awards and also gain recognition at film festivals like Rotterdam, Toronto, Tokyo, Busan and Hong Kong.
The film event is supported by Evergreen Laurel Hotel, Thai Feng and Bankoku Shabu Shabu who will provide a variety of Taiwanese snacks and drinks after the screening.
The club is in Room 232 of River City Bangkok located next to the Royal Orchid Sheraton Hotel.
Book a seat by emailing [email protected] or [email protected], call (02) 2370077-8 extensions 622 and 701 or join the conversation at, Facebook River City Bangkok.
