Director: Alexandre de La Patellière and Matthieu Delaporte
Cast: Pierre Niney, Bastien Bouillon, Anaïs Demoustier
Country: France
Year: 2024
Rating: (12A)
Films
The Count of Monte-Cristo
A falsely imprisoned man invents a new identity to take revenge on those who betrayed him in this lavish adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’s classic adventure novel.
Runtime: 178 minutes
Director: Alexandre de La Patellière and Matthieu Delaporte
Cast: Pierre Niney, Bastien Bouillon, Anaïs Demoustier
*ENCORE SCREENING* A young, brilliant barrister who loves to win comes face to face with unexpected forces when the patriarchal power of the law, burden of proof and morals diverge. Jodie Comer makes her West End debut in the UK premiere of Suzie Miller’s award-winning play, which takes us to the heart of where emotion and experience collide with the rules of the game.
Based on the best-selling memoir by Amy Liptrot, The Outrun is set in the otherworldly Orkney islands of Scotland. A brutally honest drama about addiction and recovery, strength and survival, mental health and the ability of the sea, the land and of people to restore life and renew hope. After a decade away in London, 29-year-old Rona returns home to the Orkney Islands. Sober but lonely, she ...
Kate Winslet stars as American photographer Lee Miller. Determined to document the truth of the Nazi regime, and in spite of the odds stacked against female correspondents, Lee Miller captured some of the most important images of World War II. Not exactly a biopic, Ellen Kuras's film explores the most significant decade of Miller’s life. As a middle-aged woman, Lee refused to be remembered ...
A falsely imprisoned man invents a new identity to take revenge on those who betrayed him in this lavish adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’s classic adventure novel.
Hugo Max Scores Silent Cinema: Nosferatu (1922) We are thrilled to welcome musician, writer, lecturer and filmmaker Hugo Max for this unique event in which Hugo will improvise a live score on solo viola to Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (1922), F. W. Murnau’s classic of the silent era. An iconic film of the German expressionist cinema, and one of the most famous of all silent movies, F. W....
A beautifully delicate and nuanced concoction of a film, My Favourite Cake , co-written and directed by Iranian filmmakers Maryam Moghaddam and Behtash Sanaeeha, explores themes of love, regret and second chances with nuance and grace. It’s set against the backdrop of a country with strict rules and restrictions, especially when it comes to the rights and freedoms of women. The film follows 70-...
Joaquin Phoenix's showstopping Joker meets his match in the incandescent Lady Gaga's Harley Quinn, as the two embark on a doomed romantic misadventure for this long-awaited comic book musical spectacular. Joker: Folie À Deux finds Arthur Fleck institutionalized at Arkham awaiting trial for his crimes as Joker. While struggling with his dual identity, Arthur not only stumbles upon true love, but...
Following the Olivier Award-winning run in 2021 (Best Family Show), this 'enchantingly staged' folk opera (The Stage) comes to cinemas for the first time. Red Riding Hood is tasked with delivering bread to her Grandmother, deep in the heart of the fairy-tale forest. But en route, Red meets a cunning Wolf who tricks her into taking a different path. Along the way, Red stumbles into a colourful c...
On its release in 1994 , Pulp Fiction , Quentin Tarantino's second film, changed the landscape of American independent cinema. A pair of low-rent hit men, Vincent Vega (John Travolta) and Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson), are sent out to collect a stolen briefcase for their mob boss employer, Marsellus Wallace (Ving Rhames). Having proven himself worthy, Wallace then entrusts Vincent to ente...
Much-loved British film noir, written by Graham Greene and set in postwar Vienna, with Orson Welles stealing the show as the slippery Harry Lime. Director Carol Reed outdid himself with this noirish thriller set against a Europe physically and morally devastated by war. Holly Martins (Joseph Cotten) – an American writer of cowboy stories – comes to Vienna to visit his old pal Harry Lime, only t...
In the first Despicable Me movie in seven years, Gru, the world's favorite supervillain-turned-Anti-Villain League-agent, returns for an exciting, bold new era of Minions mayhem! The biggest global animated franchise in history now begins a new chapter as Gru and Lucy and their girls - Margo, Edith and Agnes - welcome a new member to the Gru family, Gru Jr., who is intent on tormenting his dad....
Francis Ford Coppola’s film, a deeply personal project that has taken him decades to make, plays out on a scale that one has come to expect from the director of The Godfather and Apocalypse Now . Megalopolis is a Roman Epic fable set in an imagined Modern America. The City of New Rome must change, causing conflict between Cesar Catilina (Adam Driver), a genius artist who seeks to leap into a ut...
Based on Isabella Tree’s best-selling book by the same title, Wilding tells the incredible story of a young couple that bets on nature for the future of their failing, four-hundred-year-old estate. They set to work with their groundbreaking vision, battling entrenched tradition and major forces along the way, daring to place the fate of their farm in the hands of nature. Ripping down the fences, t...
By way of a tribute to the late Donald Sutherland, and to celebrate Halloween, we’re screening Nicolas Roeg’s 1973 masterpiece Don’t Look Now , starring Sutherland and Julie Christie. A largely faithful adaptation of Daphne du Maurier’s short story, this follows a couple, mourning the death of their daughter, to Venice where the husband works on restoring a church; there they encounter two sist...
Ingrid (Julianne Moore), a best-selling writer, rekindles her relationship with her friend Martha (Tilda Swinton), a war reporter with whom she has lost touch for a number of years. The two women immerse themselves in their pasts, sharing memories, anecdotes, art, movies—yet Martha has a request that will test their newly strengthened bond. Pedro Almodóvar’s finely sculpted drama, his first Eng...
Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers Directed by David Bickerstaff – Produced by Phil Grabsky 200 years after its opening and a century after acquiring its first Van Gogh works, the National Gallery, London is hosting the UK’s biggest ever Van Gogh exhibition. Van Gogh is not only one of the most beloved artists of all time, but perhaps the most misunderstood. This film is a chance to reexamine and bet...
Steve McQueen’s visually dazzling tour de force is a moving and expansive tapestry of British life during the decisive moments of the Second World War. In the face of nightly air raids, East End mum Rita (yet another impressive turn by Saoirse Ronan) grows increasingly worried about her son George’s safety. Under the counsel of her father, Gerald (Paul Weller), she makes the heart-wrenching dec...
Paddington in Peru brings Paddington's story to Peru as he returns to visit his beloved Aunt Lucy, who now resides at the Home for Retired Bears. With the Brown Family in tow, a thrilling adventure ensues when a mystery plunges them into an unexpected journey through the Amazon rainforest and up to the mountain peaks of Peru.
Ridley Scott returns to Ancient Rome for a long-anticipated sequel to Gladiator , in which Lucius (Paul Mescal) must do battle in the Colosseum to save Rome from the clutches of a tyrannical leader. Returning to the world of one of his great cinematic triumphs, Ridley Scott brings us a long-awaited sequel to Gladiator , led by an all-star cast including Paul Mescal, Denzel Washington, Pedro Pas...
Ralph Fiennes and Stanley Tucci revel in the ritual and intrigue surrounding the process of choosing a new pontiff, in this tantalisingly tense Vatican-set drama. The Pope has died. Cardinal Lawrence must lead the Conclave to select the new leader of the Catholic world. But as high-ranking cardinals gather, he discovers sides have been drawn and secrets that might destroy a future pope, perhaps...
