Corrie film club in March

The next film showing at Corrie film club on Sunday March 12th is Tulipani: Love, Honour, and a Bicycle (Holland 2017. Mike van Diem. 99 mins Cert 15) at 7.30pm.

After losing his farm to the 1953 floods in Holland, a Dutch farmer cycles to the Puglia in Italy to grow tulips.

TULIPANI tells the story of a romantic Dutch farmer named Gauke (Gijs Naber) who, after losing his farm during the floods of 1953, is determined to never ever have wet socks again. He cycles to the sizzling-hot south of Italy to start a new life and ends up at the outskirts of a small village in Puglia. Due to his fairylike and miraculous tulip trade, his passionate love-life, and his turbulent scuffles with the dubious local business practices, he becomes a living legend–then suddenly disappears. THirty years later, an Italian police inspector (Giancarlo Giannini) attempts to unravel the story, but struggles to distinguish fact from fiction. With help from young Canadian Anna (Ksenia Solo), he discovers what truly happened.

A mixed language film of English, Dutch and Italian illustrating a story of familial complications, love, determination and loss against the background of one man’s passion to bring colour and tulips to a hillside in Italy despite the darker efforts of local racketeers trying to strong arm their cut of his flower business.