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Oxnard Film Society List of Films 2019
January
Shoplifters                             Japan
The Guilty                             Denmark
February
Becoming Astrid                    Sweden
Maria by Callas                      USA
March
The Wife                                   UK
Cold War                                 Poland
April
Never Look Away                   Germany
Woman at War                        Iceland
Rafiki                                      Kenya
May
Birds of Passage                    Colombia
Ash is Purest White               China
June
Amazing Grace                       USA
The Third Wife                        Vietnam
Working Woman                     Israel
Non-Fiction                             France
July
The White Crow                      UK
The Wild Pear Tree                 Turkey
Photograph                             India
In the Aisles                            Germany
The Chambermaid                   Mexico
August
Trouble with You                   France
Pavarotti                                USA
Rojo                                       Chile
Maiden                                    UK
September
Trouble with You                   France
The Farewell                            USA/China
October
Honeyland                                Macedonia
Toni Morrison Pieces I Am    USA
Official Secrets                       UK
AGA                                        Bulgaria
November
TBA
Tba
December
Pain and Glory                        Spain

JUNE 3 Amazing Grace

2019 USA 1hr 27min
Documentary/Music
Rated G
In English

Concert footage from 1972 of Aretha Franklin performing songs from the best-selling gospel album at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles.

Film Sponsors: Susan Matsumoto and Mel Kennedy

"Amazing Grace, featuring Aretha Franklin at the height of her powers, is one of the greatest concert documentaries ever made. It reaches so far into transcendence that watching it becomes an almost ecstatic experience."
- Peter Rainer, Christian Science Monitor Author

JUNE 10 The Third Wife

2019 Vietnam 1hr 36min
Drama
Rated R
In Vietnamese with English Subtitles

In 19th century rural Vietnam, 14-year-old May becomes the third wife of wealthy landowner Hung. Soon she learns that she can only gain status by asserting herself as a woman who can give birth to a male child. May's hope to change her status turns into a real and tantalizing possibility when she gets pregnant. Faced with forbidden love and its devastating consequences, May finally comes to an understanding of the brutal truth: the options available to her are few and far between.

"Gently dipping us into the long ago and far away past, Ash Mayfair's directorial debut brings an intimate immediacy to the re-creation of rural Vietnam in the late 19th century." - Jessica Kiang, Variety

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JUNE 17 Working Woman

2019 Israel 1hr 33min
Drama
NR
In Hebrew with English subtitles

Orna, (Liron Ben Shlush) is the mother of three young children with a husband struggling to start his own restaurant. To help support her family Orna returns to the workplace, landing a job with a former army superior, Benny (Menashe Noy) who is now a successful real estate developer. While Orna embraces her new position and tries to balance its demands with her home life, she begins to experience escalating sexual harassment from her boss. Her rapid rise through the ranks and her increasing financial success seem to parallel a pattern of predatory behavior which ultimately brings her career and marital relationship to the brink. This timely and devastating story is expertly told by long time feminist filmmaker Michal Aviad.

Film Sponsor: Barbara Meister

"Working Woman" unfolds like a psychological thriller - a procedural that, as it tightens its grip, captures how workplace sexual harassment slowly takes over one woman's life." - Ben Kenigsberg, New York Times