Texas, la Traviata or a film about truth on the internet – Take your pick!
“Dallas Buyers Club”. This Oscar winning film will be shown next week at both Nyon and Aubonne cinemas.
In Aubonne it will be shown in English on Saturday 8th March at 17:30, Sunday at 20:30 and Tuesday at 20:30. See Aubonne cinema site here.
Never been to the Aubonne cinema before? Read an article here about the cinema and its programme director and the cinema here in a Living in Nyon article from July 2013.
Also at the same cinema on Monday 10th March at 20:30, the documentary “Forbidden Voices” will be shown. This film was shown at the Visions du Réel documentary film festival in 2012 and was reviewed here on this site as a “must see” film. The documentary follows three renowned female dissident bloggers from Cuba, Iran and China in their struggle to continue publishing the truth on the internet, despite state repression and persecution.
Trailer above from “Forbidden Voices”
Monday 10th March Nyon Capitole cinema 20:30 “Dallas Buyers Club” as part of the Monday Movie season
Lead actor Matthew McConaughey won an Oscar last week for his role in the film as a rodeo-loving Texan who contracted AIDS and went on to help gay patients and drug addicts desperate for treatment. Jared Leto also won an Oscar for best supporting actor for his role in this film.
Also 10th March at 20:30 in same cinema (in 2nd screening room) in collaboration with *Visions du Réel, Nyon’s upcoming documentary film festival, the film “Traviata et Nous” – “Becoming Traviata” in English/French. Documentary shot over two months in Spring 2011 about the making of a production of “La Traviata” The film chronicles the rehearsals of the Verdi opera at the Aix-en-Provence Festival. See trailer below. *More details on the special anniversary edition of Visions du Réel coming up here on this site. For more upcoming films at Nyon cinema see here