FRI 14 | 1630 | GATE
FEATURES
SAT 8 | 1330 | CORK OPERA HOUSE
THE FUTURE (EL FUTURO)
THE GRANDMASTER
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(YI DAI ZONG SHI)
LUIS LOPEZ CARRASCO SPAIN | 2013 | 69MINS | SUBTITLED
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WONG KAR-WAI | HONG KONG| CHINA | 2013 | 130MINS | SUBTILTLED
A group of young people dance and drink at a house. The atmosphere is festive and cheerful. Socialist victory in the general elections of 1982 seems recent. The night is full of euphoria and celebration. The attempt of coup d’etat made in 1981 appears to be quite far away. We could say that in Spain, in 1982, everything was about the future. However, on closer inspection, the future also looks like a black hole that devours everything in its path.
Nominated for Academy Awards in Cinematography and Costume Design Six years in the plannIng and three years in the making, The Grandmaster is an epic action feature inspired by the life and times of the legendary kungfu master, Ip Man. The story spans the tumultuous Republican era that followed the fall of China’s last dynasty, a time of chaos, division and war that was also the golden age of Chinese martial arts. Filmed in a range of stunning locations that include the snow-swept landscapes of Northeast China and the subtropical South, this is a tale of betrayal, challenge, honour and love played out against the chaotic backdrop of war and occupation. CAST TONY LEUNG, ZIYI ZHANG
THURS 13 | 2030 | TRISKEL
SUN 16 | 1615 | GATE
THE HEART MACHINE
THE HIT PRODUCER
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ZACHARY WIGON | USA | 2014 | 85MINS
KEVIN DE LA ISLA O’ NEILL | IRELAND | 2014 | 107MINS
Cody and Virginia are happy together – except they’ve never really met. They have an online relationship; he lives in Brooklyn while she is living in Berlin. During a Skype conversation, Cody notices something amiss, leading him to doubt that she is in Europe at all. Combing New York for clues about Virginia’s whereabouts, he becomes increasingly obsessive, overstepping boundaries of privacy in his quest for answers. With superb performances from John Gallagher Jr. and Kate Lyn Sheil, The Heart Machine has been hailed by The Village Voice as “a remarkably elegant genre film, a Pakulian thriller amply charged by anxiety and unease”. CAST KATE LYN SHEIL, JOHN GALLAGHER JR., DAVID CALL
Katelin Ballantine, a struggling movie producer, follows the promise of money into Dublin’s drug underworld where she is forced to commit murder, and blackmailed into moonlighting as a killer for a ruthless drug supplier. Two years pass, and despite having eliminated a number of high profile names, Katelin finds herself the target when an error of judgement reveals her identity, and exposes her boss’s plans to his remaining rivals. Cut loose, and with family in the line of fire, Katelin must adapt to survive a violent, ever-escalating onslaught as the thin veil masking her double life slips away. CAST MICHELLE DOHERTY, NEILL FLEMING, FERGUS KEALY
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