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DUBLIN FILM QLUB SEASON SIX:
FUNCTIONAL FAMILIES
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Our new season continues with...
CHUTNEY POPCORN
(Dir. Nisha Ganatra, 1999)
English
Cast: Nisha Ganatra, Jill Hennessy
Sat 18 June 2016
2.30pm (doors open at 2)
Day membership: 8 euro
(free tea and coffee)
The New Theatre
43 East Essex street
(entrance through Connolly Books)
Temple Bar
Dublin 2
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After the ‘lesbian Baby Boom’ of the last ten years or so, it is obvious that the next step in the evolution of the Domestic Lesbians, with their infamous instant life-long attachments, has been the addition of children to the household.
Chutney Popcorn was one of the first films to document the ‘maternity turn’ in modern lesbian history. It is a comedy, but it shows the very real challenges posed by all these “immaculate conceptions” (as Emma Donoghue has called them) to the traditional understanding of lesbianism, of womanhood, of reproduction, and, last but not least, of the almighty family unit.
© Dublin Film Qlub 2016