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home box office mcr. 0161 200 1500 org home film . feb– mar The Square, 2017 NEW RELEASES PHANTOM THREAD (15) SHIRAZ: A ROMANCE OF INDIA MAKALA (U) (U) From Fri 2 Feb From Fri 2 Feb THE MERCY (12A) Dir Paul Thomas Anderson/US 2017/130 mins From Fri 2 Feb Dir Emmanuel Gras/FR 2017/97 mins/Swahili and Daniel Day-Lewis, Vicky Krieps, Brian Gleeson Dir Franz Osten/IN GB DE 1928/97 mins French with Eng ST From Fri 9 Feb 1950’s post-war London, and renowned Himansu Rai, Charu Roy, Seeta Devi A young man from a village in the Dir James Marsh/GB 2017/102 mins dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock and This epic silent film is a ravishing, Congo hopes to offer his family a Rachel Weisz, David Thewlis, Colin Firth his sister Cyril are at the centre of romantic tale of the story behind one better future. When he sets out on an The Mercy is based on the true British fashion. Women come and go of the world’s most iconic structures: exhausting, perilous journey to sell the story of Donald Crowhurst and his through Woodcock’s life until he comes the Taj Mahal. The film has been fully fruits of his labour, he discovers the attempt to win the first non-stop across a young, strong-willed woman, restored and features a new score true value of his efforts, and the price single-handed round-the-world Alma, who becomes a fixture in his life. from world-renowned sitar player and of his dreams. yacht race in 1968. Marsh captures composer Anoushka Shankar. the intense loneliness of Crowhurst and elucidates the life of a man who remains a quixotic and mysterious figure in British history. Preview Thu 1 Feb LOVELESS (15) + Q&A (NELYUBOV) From Fri 9 Feb Dir Andrey Zvyagintsev/RU FR 2017/122 mins/ Russian with Eng ST A WOMAN’S LIFE (12A) Maryana Spivak, Aleksey Rozin, Varvara Shmykova THE SHAPE OF WATER (15) LADY BIRD (15) I, TONYA (15) (UNE VIE) This stark and emotionally desolate From Wed 14 Feb From Fri 16 Feb From Fri 16 Feb tale of a Russian couple in the throes From Fri 2 Feb Dir Guillermo del Toro/US 2017/123 mins Dir Greta Gerwig/US 2017/94 mins Dir Craig Gillespie/US 2017/119 mins Dir Stéphane Brizé/FR BE 2017/119 mins/French of a terrible separation confirms Sally Hawkins, Octavia Spencer, Michael Shannon Saoirse Ronan, Odeya Rush, Timothée Chalamet Margot Robbie, Allison Janney, Sebastian Stan Zvyagintsev as one of the most with Eng ST At the height of the Cold War, two A rebellious young woman from a loving I, Tonya is a darkly comic tale of Judith Chemla, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, Yolande accomplished filmmakers of his workers in a US government laboratory but cash strapped family navigates the American figure skater, Tonya Harding, Moreau generation. A film that is chilling in discover a terrifying secret experiment pressures and constraints of Catholic and one of the most sensational Normandy, 1819. Jeanne is a young its presentation of conflict, Loveless in this otherworldly fairytale from school whilst dreaming of escape to the scandals in sports history. This is an woman full of dreams when she returns is shot in industrial tones to heighten Guillermo del Toro. Peppered with bright lights. A whip smart look at the absurd, irreverent, and piercing portrayal home after finishing her schooling in a the emotional Russian hinterland in cinematic references and a work of dichotomy between the worlds of the of Harding’s life and career in all its convent. Following her marriage, little which it unfolds. unparalleled visual beauty with each haves and have-nots, Gerwig delivers a unchecked - and checkered - glory. by little Jeanne’s illusions are stripped and every frame a work of art, del Toro coming-of-age tale for our times. away. Beautifully directed by Stéphane Event/ We will be joined by director delivers unforgettable film poetry. Brizé, the film is one of small gestures Andrey Zvyagintsev for a Q&A and builds to an impressive character following the preview screening on portrait. Thu 1 Feb, 20:00. See p12 for details of our Andrey Zvyagintsev season. 2 3 Event Preview Tue 27 Feb Preview Thu 8 Mar DARK RIVER (CTBA) + Q&A From Fri 23 Feb Dir Clio Barnard/GB 2017/89 mins Ruth Wilson, Mark Stanley, Sean Bean Ruth Wilson excels in Clio Barnard’s atmospheric and layered drama YOU WERE NEVER REALLY HERE SWEET COUNTRY (15) BOMBSHELL: THE HEDY LAMARR (CTBA) + INTRO STORY (CTBA) + SATELLITE Q&A about the old wounds and bitter From Fri 9 Mar new grievances that come to light From Fri 9 Mar Dir Warwick Thornton/AU 2017/113 mins From Fri 9 Mar when a woman returns home to Dir Lynne Ramsay/GB FR US 2017/85 mins Bryan Brown, Matt Day, Tremayne Doolan Dir Alexandra Dean/US 2017/90 mins settle the tenancy of her family’s Joaquin Phoenix, Ekaterina Samsonov, Alessandro Accused of murder, an Aboriginal Fleeing to America after escaping Nivola Yorkshire farm. Barnard has an acute stockman and his wife try to stay her Nazi sympathiser husband, Hedy sense of place and character and Joaquin Phoenix stars as Joe, a ahead of a fervent posse in the harsh Lamarr then conquered Hollywood. this is an assured and atmospheric damaged Gulf War veteran and former outback of Australia’s Northern Executive produced by Susan Sarandon work. FBI agent turned assassin for hire, who Territory. Inspired by real events, this and narrated by Diane Kruger, this specialises in saving young victims from outback western is a story of personal is the ultimate portrait of Lamarr as We will be joined by director Event/ child sex rings. Adapted by Ramsay conviction and settler justice, and an actor, Hollywood wild-child and Clio Barnard for a Q&A following the from the novella by Jonathan Ames, eloquently explores questions of race, forward-thinker. screening on Fri 23 Feb at 18:10. this is a mean and lean film concerned gender and colonialism. with tone and texture rather than Event/ There will be a satellite Q&A convention. on Thu 8 Mar at 18:30 with executive producer Susan Sarandon to celebrate Event/ We have a special preview on International Women’s Day. Tue 27 Feb and are pleased to welcome Lynne Ramsay to present the film. Event THE SQUARE (15) From Fri 16 Mar Dir Ruben Östlund/SE DE FR DK 2017/151 mins/ English, Swedish and Danish with partial Eng ST Claes Bang, Elisabeth Moss, Dominic West Ruben Östlund’s Palme d’Or A FANTASTIC WOMAN (15) THE NILE HILTON INCIDENT ERASE AND FORGET (18) + Q&A winner is a brilliantly funny and THE MAGIC FLUTE (PG) (UNA MUJER FANTÁSTICA) (CTBA) bracingly surreal art-world satire (TROLLFLÖJTEN) From Fri 2 Mar that focuses on the respected From Fri 2 Mar From Fri 2 Mar Dir Andrea Luka Zimmerman/GB 2017/88 mins curator of a contemporary art From Fri 16 Mar Dir Sebastián Lelio/CL DE ES US 2017/104 mins/ Dir Tarik Saleh/SE DK DE FR 2017/106 mins/Arabic, Bo Gritz is one of America’s most highly museum in Stockholm. Audacious Dir Ingmar Bergman/SE 1975/137 mins/Swedish with Eng ST Spanish with Eng ST English and French with partial Eng ST decorated Vietnam veterans and the and provocative, the film dissects Daniela Vega, Francisco Reyes, Luis Gnecco Fares Fares, Mari Malek, Yasser Ali Maher Ulrik Cold, Josef Köstlinger, Irma Urrila alleged real-life inspiration behind the failings and foibles of human Bergman’s Mozart adaptation Marina is a young waitress and aspiring In Cairo, weeks before the 2011 Rambo. He also killed 400 people, existence and the pretensions of the was filmed on a set replicating an singer. When her older partner suffers revolution, police detective Noredin turned against Washington and moved art world with a very sharp scalpel. 18th century theatre. A work of a terrible accident, Marina comes is working in the infamous Kasr el-Nil to the Nevada desert. Zimmerman’s characteristic grace and charm, it is under suspicion. By virtue of her gender police station when he is handed a portrait of Bo embodies contemporary widely regarded as one of the greatest identity she is treated like a criminal. A murder case that implicates Egypt’s American society in all its dizzying of all screen versions of an opera. Fantastic Woman is a compassionate power elite. Based on a true story, this complexity and contradictions. portrait of the everyday obstacles of is a political thriller that grips like a vice. See also the Ingmar Bergman transgender existence. Event/ We will be joined by director season on p17. Andrea Luka Zimmerman for a Q&A following the screening on Fri 2 Mar at 18:10. 4 5 WESTWOOD (CTBA) GHOLAM (CTBA) From Fri 23 Mar From Fri 30 Mar Dir Lorna Tucker/GB 2018/TBC mins Dir Mitra Tabrizian/GB IR 2017/104 mins/English Westwood blends archive, and Persian with partial Eng ST reconstruction and insightful Shahab Hosseini, Tracie Bennett, Nasser Memarzia interviews with Vivienne Westwood’s Gholam is an Iranian immigrant fascinating network of collaborators, CUSTODY (CTBA) HAVE A NICE DAY (15) living in London, where he drives a guiding us on her journey from a (JUSQU’À LA GARDE) (HAO JI LE) cab and moonlights as a mechanic. childhood in post-war Derbyshire to Gholam begins a tentative From Fri 23 Mar the runways of Paris and Milan. From Fri 30 Mar Dir Xavier Legrand/FR 2017/93 mins/French with Dir Jian Liu/CN 2017/78 mins/Mandarin with Eng ST relationship with an elderly woman Eng ST Yang Siming, Cao Kou, Ma Xiaofeng, Zhu Changlong in the neighbourhood but also finds Léa Drucker, Denis Ménochet, Thomas Gioria There’s a suitcase full of cash on himself slowly being pulled back into French director Xavier Legrand’s debut the loose, and a rich menagerie of his former life as a heroic soldier in feature is an explosive family drama underworld characters are hustling the Iran-Iraq War.