ciné SARNIA presents Submarine January 22 & 23, 2012

SUBMARINE A crowd favourite at the 2010 Toronto bits about her. When necessary, she International Film orders him to cross things out Director: Festival®, Submarine is an absolute Cast: Craig Roberts, , delight. Full of surprises and amazingly Based on ’s , , affecting, this is a film to fall in love acclaimed novel, Submarine is a Noah Taylor with. Writer-director Richard Ayoade is captivating coming-of-age story Year: 2011 already a rising star in the United with an offbeat edge. Oliver is a Runtime: 94 minutes Kingdom, and the film’s wry comedy consummate anti-hero, as sardonic Country: UK and dead-on observations has found a and self-obsessed as any Language: English new canvas for the view of flawed postmodern Holden Caulfield, and Distributor: Alliance Films youth. Roberts plays the role with the necessary cocktail of stubborn Fifteen-year-old Oliver Tate (Craig egotism and gangly unease. Roberts, Jane Eyre ) has two big Ayoade is clearly a devotee of ambitions: to save his parents’ marriage Godard, employing snippets of via carefully plotted intervention and to music and riffing on his use of

lose his virginity before his next colour-coding. But even with the birthday. Worried that his mom (the shades of Godard and Wes always delightful Sally Hawkins, Made Anderson, this vibrant film comes in Dagenham , Jane Eyre ) is having an off as a real original and marks the affair with New Age weirdo Graham (a beginning of a career to watch hilarious Paddy Considine, Hot Fuzz, closely. The Bourne Ultimatum ), Oliver monitors his parents’ sex life by “The excruciating and the charting the dimmer switch in their hilarious mingle nearly to bedroom. He also forges suggestive love perfection in this marvelously

letters from Mom to Dad. His love visualized and deeply felt British

interest Jordana (a spirited performance film…” – Kyle Smith, New York

by newcomer Yasmin Paige) is Post

refreshingly complicated; a self-

professed pyromaniac, she supervises

Oliver’s journal writing – especially the