Core Season Films
12/2/24 - Les Miserables | France | 2019 | Dir. Ladj Lay | 15 | 104 min | IDMb 7.6 | Subtitled

Assigned to work alongside unethical police veterans Chris and Gwada in Paris' Anti-Crime Brigade, Brigadier Stéphane Ruiz - a recent transplant to the working-class suburb of Montfermeil, where Victor Hugo wrote his famous novel Les Misérables - struggles to establish a working relationship with influential community leaders while attempting to maintain some semblance of peace between his disreputable team and the citizens of the local housing projects. When what should be a simple arrest goes tragically awry, the three officers must individually reconcile with the aftermath of their actions while angling to keep the neighbourhood from retaliating with mob violence.

Beginning as a Cesar-winning short film, the film was inspired by the 2005 riots in Paris. It was selected to compete for the Palme d'Or at the 2019 Cannes Film Festival, where it won the Jury Prize (in a tie with BACURAU) and was selected as France's entry for Best International Feature Film at the 92nd Academy Awards.

26/2/24 - Utama | Bolivia | 2022 | Dir. Alejandro Loayza Grisi | 12A | 127 min | IDMb 7.2 | Subtitled

In the Bolivian highlands, an elderly Quechua couple has been living the same daily life for years. During an uncommonly long drought, Virginio and Sisa face a dilemma: resist or be defeated by the environment and time itself.

A visually stunning film set in the harsh but beautiful highlands of Bolivia. An elderly couple, Virginio and Sisa, have lived out their married life in the traditional way in this vast , challenging landscape. Things come to a head with the visit of a grandson from the city, who is shocked by their way of life in the face of drought and increasing infirmity. The film mirrors the universal dilemma of an elderly couple reluctant to accept the need for change to an easier lifestyle.

Winner of the 2022 Grand Jury prize at Sundance, this film has 25 Wins and 23 nominations from worldwide festivals listed on IDMb. Trivia - the actors playing Virginio and Sisa are married in real life.

Art Season Film - 7/2/24 - Exhibition on Screen: Michelangelo - Love and Death

Michelangelo - Love and Death offers a cinematic journey through the great chapels and museums of Florence, Rome and the Vatican, to the print and drawing rooms of Europe, to explore Michelangelo's tempestuous life. The film goes in search of a greater understanding of this charismatic and enigmatic figure, both through his relationships with his contemporaries and his ongoing artistic legacy.

The film invites audiences to intimately examine Michelangelo’s art and artistic process - from the Carrara quarries where Michelangelo sourced his marble, to the new technology being used to attribute works. The film also offers a rare chance to get up close to the mesmerising Rothschild Bronzes, which, following an extensive research project carried out by Academics in Cambridge in 2015, were positively attributed to Michelangelo after over a century of debate.

Key contributors to the film include art critics Martin Gayford and Jonathan Jones, Deputy Director of the Vatican Museums Professor Arnold Nesselrath and contemporary artist Tania Kovats.

Filming locations include Casa Buonarroti in Florence, Carrara marble mines, the Medici Chapel and the Vatican. These beautiful locations, combined with high-resolution views of Michelangelo’s greatest works, convene to create a staggering visual experience.

Classic Cinema - 21/2/24 - La Dolce Vita | Director: Federico Fellini | Italy | 1960 | 174 Minutes | IMDb 8 | Subtitled

Over the course of seven days Italy’s maestro, Federico Fellini, takes us on a journey through the eternal city. Marcello Mastroianni, defining a generation of cool in his beetle-black sunglasses, stars as Marcello Rubini, a jaded journalist who tries to find meaning in life in the decadent world of Rome’s ‘smart set’. If he is to choose between a life of excess and hedonistic pleasures against a more virtuous and intellectual one, which path will he take?

La Dolce Vita was an international success both critically and commercially, and proved a landmark moment for Italian cinema and European cinema-at-large. The title itself has entered the English language along with ‘Paparazzi’, the plural form of Walter Santesso’s character ‘Paparazzo’ – the photographer – which has become a byword for the worst of tabloid journalism everywhere.

The film also stars Sweden’s Anita Ekberg who, in one of cinema’s most iconic moments, memorably takes a moonlight splash with ‘Marcello’ in the famed Trevi Fountain scene.

Opening Times & Pricing:

Prices and opening times vary for each film

Michelangelo 2pm and 7pm £4 | £6 | £8

Les Miserables 7.30pm £3 | £6

Utama 7.30pm £3 | £6

La Dolce Vita 7pm £4 | £6 | £8