The latest presentation from Haringey Independent Cinema,

On THURSDAY 26th JANUARY as a contribution towards Holocaust Memorial DayHIC will be showing the slightly controversial film LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL.

We accept this film takes a slightly different approach to the difficult issue of the concentration camps, but we feel it is one that should be shown widely.

Unfortunately we will not be able to discuss the issues at the end of the film as we need to be out the building by 9.30pm, but as we go to the pub across the road (KK McCool's) for a drink after each film, please join us if you want to chat about the issues the film raises.

For those who haven't been to our film nights below we will let people in around 7pm and the films start at 7.15pm. You can turn up any time after 6.30pm if you are coming straight from work or a distance away.

We charge £3 to get in or £2 for anybody who doesn't have much money. The venue is the West Green Learning Centre which is the glass fronted building behind the blue metal fence where West Green Road meets Philip Lane.

Buses that stop near by are the 41; 230; 341; 67. For any other information just check out our website at: www.haringey.org.uk/hic or visit us on facebook.

LIFE IS BEAUTIFUL

Set in late 1930s Italy, a Jewish waiter, Guido (Roberto Benigni) uses cunning humour to win the heart of an Italian schoolteacher, Dora (Nicoletta Braschi) who's set to marry another man. An idyllic family life with a 5 year old son is interrupted by the onset of war and the approach of the Nazis. Guido and his son are arrested and are about to sent to a concentration camp when Dora demands to be taken too.

In the camp, Guido hides his son from the Nazi guards, sneaks him food and tries to humor him. In an attempt to keep up Giosu''s spirits, Guido convinces him that the camp is just a game, in which the first person to get 1,000 points wins a tank. This game becomes an elaborate ruse to disguise the full horrors of the camp from the boy.

Italian actor-director Benigni's 1998 multi-award winning film divided audiences and critics alike. For some this was kitsch attempt to make a "feel good" film about the holocaust while for others this was bold use of the ancient art of comedy as a means of better understanding one of the worst moments of the last century.

You shall judge...