Film
Film 15 12A
Hope Gap
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UK 2019 101 mins Dir: William Nicholson The intimate, intense and loving story of Hope Gap charts the life of Grace (Annette Bening) and Edward (Bill Nighy) who live in a small seaside town under the cliffs called Hope Gap. When their son Jamie comes to visit, Edward tells him he has met someone else and plans to leave Grace (after 29 years) that same day. Deriving from William Nicholson’s perception of his own parents’ separation, the narrative tracks the unravelling of three lives.
White Riot UK/USA 2019 80 mins Dir: Rubika Shah This engaging, evocative and prize-winning documentary incorporates archive footage and contemporary interviews to explore how London protest movement Rock Against Racism (RAR) confronted British fascists head-on. In the late 1970’s Britain was in turmoil, with industrial strife and a lurch to the right which established the racist National Front as an ugly presence on the streets and a potential force in parliament. A timely and unfortunately still very relevant film, full of contemporary echoes.
Love Sarah
Promising Young Woman
UK 2020 98 mins Dir: Eliza Schroede
UK/USA 2020 113 mins Dir: Emerald Fennell
Determined to fulfil her late mother’s dream of opening a bakery in charming Notting Hill, 19-year-old Clarissa enlists the help of her mother’s best friend Isabella (Shelly Conn) and her eccentric estranged grandmother Mimi (Celia Imrie). These three generations of women will need to overcome grief, doubts and differences to honour the memory of their beloved Sarah while embarking on a journey to establish a London bakery filled with love, hope and colourful pastries from all over the world.
Suspiciously unambitious Cassie (Carey Mulligan) leads a quiet existence as a barista who lives in her parents’ house since dropping out of medical school. The evenings, however, reveal a boiling vendetta. Men who cross her path are in serious danger, as beautiful and brutal Cassie seeks to heal from her past by doling out scathing lessons. When Ryan re-enters her life, so does the possibility of healing. Killing Eve’s Emerald Fennell steps behind the camera for her debut feature.
Psycho
Saint Maud
USA 1960 108 mins Dir: Alfred Hitchcock
UK 2019 84 mins Dir: Rose Glass
Alfred Hitchcock legendary, influential Oscar-nominated thriller turns 60 this year. Marion Crane (Janet Leigh) goes on the run after stealing $40,000 from one of her employer’s clients. Taking a wrong turn in a storm, she arrives at the isolated Bates Motel, run by the twitchy Norman (Anthony Perkins), who is consistently at the beck and call of his unseen mother. The legendary, influential thriller turns 60 this year and is back on the big screen once again.
A mysterious nurse becomes dangerously obsessed with saving the soul of her dying patient. Having recently found God, self-effacing nurse Maud (Morfydd Clark) is untiring in her spiritual devotion. Landing a job as full-time carer, she arrives at the plush home of Amanda (Jennifer Ehle), a dancer who’s frail from chronic illness. But it soon becomes clear there is more to the saintly Maud than meets the eye. Wickedly playful, Glass’s thrilling debut film is by turns funny, chilling and breathtakingly sad and consistently upends audience expectations.
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Proxima France 2019 107 mins Dir: Alice Winocour Accomplished scientist and astronaut Sarah Loreau (Eva Green) has achieved her career ambition of being chosen for a year-long mission to the International Space Station. As she begins the intense physical and mental training, she grapples with the realities of what achieving her dream will mean to her as a parent and to her seven-year-old daughter Stella. Writer-director Alice Winocour’s (Mustang) stunning direction makes for a tender and moving portrait of a mother-daughter relationship, set against the backdrop of an awe-inspiring journey.
Rocks
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UK 2020 93 mins Dir: Sarah Gavron British-Nigerian Shola aka Rocks is 15. The teachers say she should be thinking about her future, but the present demands all her energy, after her father died and her mother suddenly left to ‘clear her mind’. It’s not the first time Rocks and her kid brother have been left on their own. Luckily, Rocks is far from alone: she has her friends. A lively portrait of a group of teenage girls from East London, gritty but also joyous, a hopeful story of growing up in a metropolis.
The Secret Garden
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UK/France 2020 tbc mins Dir: Marc Munden Mary Lennox (Dixie Egerickx) is a troubled, sickly, orphaned 10-year-old girl, sent to live with an uncle after her parents died in a cholera outbreak in India. Initially sour and rude, Mary begins to explore the grounds of her uncle’s estate and befriends a robin. Mary hears of a locked-away, hidden garden. Together with the robin, she finds the key and enters the garden, discovering it to be more magical than she could have ever imagined. Adaptation of the Frances Hodgson Burnett classic family novel starring Colin Firth as Mary’s Uncle and Julie Waters as Mrs Medlock.
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