GGI The Hague Movie Club
The Girl Gone International The Hague Movie Club was started by Anna C. in October 2019 and has been kept in motion (pun intended) by different GGI Event Hosts since. These are all the movies we've watched and discussed!
❝Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.❞ - Pedro Almodovar
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❝The aim of this GGI Movie Club is to watch a movie together in the cinema and discuss it afterwards. The idea is to bring our vision and understanding of the movie and discuss how this understanding varies from culture to culture. It is a good opportunity to spend time in a sociable and creative way!❞ - Anna C.
❝Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.❞ - Pedro Almodovar
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❝The aim of this GGI Movie Club is to watch a movie together in the cinema and discuss it afterwards. The idea is to bring our vision and understanding of the movie and discuss how this understanding varies from culture to culture. It is a good opportunity to spend time in a sociable and creative way!❞ - Anna C.
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- DirectorEllen KurasStarsKate WinsletAndy SambergAlexander SkarsgårdThe story of American photographer Lee Miller, a fashion model who became an acclaimed war correspondent for Vogue magazine during World War II.14.10.2024 @ Pathé Buitenhof
- DirectorMichael PowellEmeric PressburgerStarsDeborah KerrDavid FarrarFlora RobsonA group of nuns struggle to establish a convent in the Himalayas, while isolation, extreme weather, altitude, and culture clashes all conspire to drive the well-intentioned missionaries mad.28.09.2024 @ Filmhuis Den Haag
GGI score: 7.2 ⭐️
GGI tagline: “Nun could be higher: horses, hysteria, and bad habits in the Himalayas.” - DirectorPamela AdlonStarsElena OuspenskaiaSandra BernhardOliver PlattLifelong friends Eden and Dawn, one single and wanting a baby, the other already a mother, navigate challenges to their bond when Eden pursues pregnancy alone after a one-night stand.25.08.2024 @ Pathé Spuimarkt
GGI score: 7.1 ⭐️
GGI tagline: “Very honest adult-coming-of-age showing of a relatable, goofy female friendship through pregnancy and parenthood” - DirectorXiaopeng TianStarsTingwen WangSu XinKuixing TengA girl strays into the dreamy deep sea world. In the deepest part of the sea, all secrets are hidden.16.07.2024 @ Filmhuis Den Haag
GGI score: 6.3 ⭐️
GGI tagline: “Curious visual overstimulation representing a bad trip growing up with losses and sacrifice” - DirectorBenoît DelhommeStarsJessica ChastainAnne HathawayAnders Danielsen LieAlice and Celine live a traditional lifestyle with successful husbands and sons of the same age. Life's perfect harmony is suddenly shattered after a tragic accident. Guilt, suspicion and paranoia combine to unravel their sisterly bond.12.06.2024 @ Pathé Buitenhof
GGI score: 6.3 ⭐️
GGI tagline: “Great actresses leading us into an anticlimactic twisted duel between perfectly dressed neighbours over stolen motherhood” - DirectorShuming HeStarsYeo Jin-gooKang Hyoung-sukJung Dong-hwanA widow obsessed with Korean soap operas travels abroad for the first time in her life to Seoul and finds more than she had bargained for.24.05.2024 @ CinemAsia on Tour, Filmhuis Den Haag
GGI score: 8.3 ⭐️
GGI tagline: “When k-drama and real-life meet in a heart-felt rollercoaster, age does not matter when it comes to discovering yourself #dookielives” - DirectorThea SharrockStarsJessie BuckleyOlivia ColmanTimothy SpallWhen people in Littlehampton--including conservative local, Edith--begin receiving letters full of hilarious profanities, the rowdy, Irish migrant, Rose, is charged with the crime. Suspecting that something is amiss, the town's women investigate.15.04.2024 @ Pathé Buitenhof
GGI score: 8.8 ⭐️
GGI tagline: “Next level swearing bringing a post-war revolution of foxy *ss women together when lying goes to f-ing far” - DirectorRamata-Toulaye SyStarsKhady ManeMamadou DialloBinta Racine SyA young couple in Senegal must contend with the disapproval of their remote village.16.03.2024 @ Filmhuis Den Haag
GGI score: 7.7 ⭐️
GGI tagline: “Drowning in the sand: digging into a dreamy, dry obsession of a resilient girl's inflexible stubbornness impacting all relationships” - DirectorBlitz BazawuleStarsFantasia BarrinoTaraji P. HensonDanielle BrooksA woman faces many hardships in her life, but ultimately finds extraordinary strength and hope in the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood.04.02.2024 @ Pathé Buitenhof
GGI score: 7.3 ⭐️
GGI tagline: “Unexpected colourful rendition of harsh reality, female empowerment starts in sisterhood and all trauma seems overcome when the women get to wear the (purple) pants” - DirectorSofia CoppolaStarsKirsten DunstJosh HartnettJames WoodsA group of male friends become obsessed with five mysterious sisters who are sheltered by their strict, religious parents in suburban Detroit in the mid 1970s.23.01.2024 @ Filmhuis Den Haag
GGI score: 7.4 ⭐️
GGI tagline: “Timeless beautifully portrayed ominous suffocating family tragedy: how not to parent” - DirectorThaddeus O'SullivanStarsMaggie SmithLaura LinneyKathy BatesThere's just one dream for the women of Ballygar to taste freedom: to win a pilgrimage to the sacred French town of Lourdes.11.12.2023 @ Pathé Buitenhof
GGI score: 5.4 ⭐️
GGI tagline: “Compressed forgiveness: small town miracles just passing by” - DirectorVesela KazakovaMina MilevaStarsMaria BakalovaVesela KazakovaBilyana KazakovaA mother stork is shot down from a chimney. A woman suffering from postnatal depression nearly jumps off a balcony. A girl has to deal with the stigma of HIV. A mother looks for magic in the lunar calendar.26.11.2023 @ Eastern Neighbours Film Festival, Filmhuis Den Haag
GGI score: 6.7 ⭐️
GGI tagline: “Uncovering your power in trauma and instability: finding your autonomy & matriarchal voice in (still) a men's world” - DirectorCeline SongStarsGreta LeeTeo YooJohn MagaroNora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrested apart after Nora's family emigrates from South Korea. Twenty years later, they are reunited for one fateful week as they confront notions of love and destiny.25.10.2023 @ Filmhuis Den Haag
GGI score: 8.1 ⭐️
GGI tagline: “What if: unattainable love bubble over space, cultures and time” - DirectorGuy NattivStarsHelen MirrenZed JosefHenry GoodmanFocuses on the intensely dramatic and high-stakes responsibilities and decisions that Golda Meir, also known as the 'Iron Lady of Israel,' faced during the Yom Kippur War.25.09.2023 @ Pathé Buitenhof
GGI score: 7.6 ⭐️
GGI tagline: “When smoke settles we see an emphatic female leader: one-sided story told well.” - DirectorGreta GerwigStarsMargot RobbieRyan GoslingIssa RaeBarbie and Ken are having the time of their lives in the colorful and seemingly perfect world of Barbie Land. However, when they get a chance to go to the real world, they soon discover the joys and perils of living among humans.10.08.2023 @ Pathé Buitenhof
GGI score: 7.8 ⭐️
GGI tagline: “Ruth's dream: Barbie realising she's more than (k)enough.” - DirectorMarta SavinaStarsClaudia GusmanoFabrizio FerracaneFrancesco ColellaA young woman in rural Italy of the 1960's is violently forced into marriage and fights for justice.04.07.2023 @ Filmhuis Den Haag
GGI score: 7.0 ⭐️
GGI tagline: “Silent drama in religious Sicilian village: 1 girl causing huge waves in the Italian law system” - DirectorRob MarshallStarsHalle BaileyJonah Hauer-KingMelissa McCarthyA young mermaid makes a deal with a sea witch to trade her beautiful voice for human legs so she can discover the world above water and impress a prince.14.06.2023 @ Pathé Spuimarkt
GGI score: 7.5 ⭐️
GGI tagline: “2.0 version of childhood fantasy” - DirectorNa GyiStarsPaing Phyo ThuEaindra Kyaw ZinLwin MoeTwo desperately ill women find solace in each other's company. They journey towards the fabled "sea of clouds" before dying, not knowing destiny has a twist in this eternal puzzle called life.13.05.2023 @ CinemAsia on tour, Filmhuis Den Haag
GGI score: 6.7 ⭐️
GGI tagline: “Live slow, die fast - a cheerful roadtrip in slow loving bubble” - DirectorMary NighyStarsAnna KendrickKaniehtiio HornCharlie CarrickA young woman trapped in an abusive relationship becomes the unwitting participant in an intervention staged by her two closest friends.04.04.2023 @ Pathé Buitenhof
GGI score: 8.0 ⭐️
GGI tagline: “Resurrection: friends matter when drowning in silence” - DirectorJeff KaufmanStarsOlivia ColmanAnn CurryShirin EbadiAn immersive portrait of one of the world's most courageous human rights activists and political prisoners, Nasrin Sotoudeh, and of Iran's remarkably resilient women's rights movement.10.03.2023 @ TransitieCinema, Het Koorenhuis
GGI score: 8.7 ⭐️
GGI tagline: “Intense and inspiring insights in daily activist familylife: powerful woman not giving up on a selfless unfair fight in extremities” - DirectorSarah PolleyStarsRooney MaraClaire FoyJessie BuckleyDo nothing, stay and fight, or leave. In 2010, the women of an isolated religious community grapple with reconciling a brutal reality with their faith.19.02.2023 @ Pathé Buitenhof
GGI score: 8.2 ⭐️
GGI tagline: “Intellectual engaging barn discussion: politely showing women regaining the critical believe in themselves, empowering one another whilst holding space” - DirectorIdan HaguelStarsShlomi BertonovAriel WolfLena FraifeldCenters around Ben, a politically liberal, gay man who tries to improve his neighborhood in the slums of south Tel Aviv by planting a tree on his street.16.01.2023 @ Filmhuis Den Haag
GGI score: 6.9 ⭐️
GGI tagline: “Shallow, out-of-touch citizen with good intentions, until it becomes too close to home” - DirectorDina DumaStarsAntonija BelazelkoskaMia GiraudMarija JancevskaThe friendship of two adolescent girls is threatened the moment they have to face the dire repercussions of their manipulative behaviour.27.11.2022 @ Eastern Neighbours Film Festival, Filmhuis Den Haag
- DirectorJason LoftusStarsHenry GuoShi JianYu FengFalun Gong practitioners were persecuted in China, they tried to tell the truth but they were kidnapped, some Falun Gong practitioners died.09.10.2022 @ Movies That Matter on Tour, Filmhuis Den Haag
- DirectorOlivia NewmanStarsDaisy Edgar-JonesTaylor John SmithHarris DickinsonA woman who raised herself in the marshes of the Deep South becomes a suspect in the murder of a man with whom she was once involved.18.08.2022 @ Pathé Buitenhof - crossover with GGI The Hague Book Club