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home box office mcr. 0161 200 1500 org home film . FEB- MAR Portrait of a Lady on Fire, 2019 1 NEW RELEASES Preview + Satellite Event Parasite (15) (Gisaengchung) First Love (15) A Paris Education (CTBA) Little Joe (12A) (Hatsukoi) (Mes provincials) From Fri 7 Feb From Fri 21 Feb Dir Bong Joon Ho/KR 2019/132 mins/Korean From Fri 14 Feb From Fri 14 Feb Dir Jessica Hausner/AT GB DE 2019/105 mins and English with partial EngST Dir Takashi Miike/JP GB 2019/108 mins/Japanese Dir Jean-Paul Civeyrac/FR 2018/137 mins/French Emily Beecham, Ben Whishaw, Kerry Fox Kang-ho Song, Sun-kyun Lee, Yeo-jeong Jo wEngST wEngST Alice is a plant breeder at a corporation Kim Ki-teak’s family are all Becky, Sakurako Konishi, Masataka Kubota Andranic Manet, Diane Rouxel, Jenna Thiam developing new species. Against unemployed and living in a squalid Young boxer Leo has just learnt he has Etienne heads off to study film in Paris company policy, Alice takes a sample basement. When his son gets a a brain tumour when he encounters and immerses himself in a bohemian plant home as a gift for her son. They tutoring job at the lavish home of Monica, a call girl in deep with drugs and world of artists and intellectuals. christen it ‘Little Joe’ but as it grows, so the Park family, the Kim family’s luck the Yakuza. With the criminal underworld Shooting in timeless black and white and too does Alice’s suspicion that her new changes. One by one they gradually imploding due to ferocious in-fighting, interweaving references to philosophy, creations may not be harmless. infiltrate the wealthy Parks’ home, these new lovers get caught in the music, and cinema, Civeyrac conjures a attempting to take over their affluent crossfire. bittersweet ode to the heady days of We are also screening some of lifestyle. student life. Jessica Hausner’s shorts and Lovely Event/ On Mon 3 Feb, 18:00 there Rita as part of our Jessica Hausner will be a special preview screening season – see p16 for details. followed by a satellite Q&A with director Bong Joon Ho, broadcast from Curzon Mayfair. Event Talking About Trees (PG) Mr. Jones (15) Emma (CTBA) Greed (15) Midnight Family (15) End of the Century (CTBA) From Fri 7 Feb From Fri 7 Feb From Fri 14 Feb From Fri 21 Feb From Fri 21 Feb (Fin de siglo) Dir Suhaib Gasmelbari/FR SD TD DE 2019/93 mins/ Dir Agnieszka Holland/PL GB UK 2019/119 mins/ Dir Autumn de Wilde/GB 2020/TBC mins Dir Michael Winterbottom/GB 2019/105 mins Dir Luke Lorentzen/MX 2019/81 mins/Spanish From Fri 21 Feb Arabic wEngST English, Ukranian, Russian and Welsh with partial wEngST Anya Taylor-Joy, Josh O’Connor, Johnny Flynn Steve Coogan, Isla Fisher, Asa Butterfield Dir Lucio Castro/AR 2019/84 mins/Spanish wEngST Ibrahim, Manar, Suleiman and Altayeb EngST In Mexico City, the government operates James Norton, Vanessa Kirby, Peter Sarsgaard Jane Austen’s beloved comedy is Reuniting with Steve Coogan and Juan Barberini, Ramon Pujol, Mía Maestro are the members of the Sudanese Film reimagined in this delicious new film. co-writing with Sean Gray (Veep), fewer than 45 emergency ambulances In March 1933, Welsh journalist Gareth An Argentinian man from New York and Club founded in 1989. Unable to make In this glittering satire of social class Winterbottom delivers a scathingly funny for a population of 9 million. This has Jones takes a train from Moscow to a Spanish man from Berlin hook up by films for years, they have decided to and the pain of growing up, Emma must farce of a London-based high-street spawned an underground for-profit Kharkov in the Ukraine and experiences chance while in Barcelona. What seems revive an old cinema. This beautifully adventure through misguided matches billionaire Richard McCreadie in the ambulance industry, often with poorly at first hand the horrors of a famine. like a one-night encounter between two shot feature debut, winner of the and romantic missteps to find the love build-up to his lavish 60th birthday trained staff. An exception in this Soviet secret service henchmen are strangers becomes an epic, decades- Berlinale Best Documentary Award, that has been there all along. celebrations on the Greek island of ethically fraught industry, the Ochoa determined to prevent news about the spanning relationship. Castro’s debut couldn’t be timelier for Sudan. Mykonos. family struggles to keep their financial catastrophe from getting out to the feature is inventive, enigmatic and needs from jeopardising the people in consistently surprising. global public. Event/ We will be joined by Steve their care. Coogan for a Q&A following the screening on Fri 20 Feb, 18:00. 2 3 Preview Portrait of a Lady on Fire (15) (Portrait de la jeune fille en feu) From Fri 28 Feb Dir Céline Sciamma/FR 2019/122 mins/French Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am Vitalina Varela (12A) Calm with Horses (15) and Italian wEngST Noémie Merlant, Adèle Haenel, Luàna Bajrami (12A) From Fri 6 Mar From Fri 13 March Brittany, France 1770. Portrait From Fri 6 Mar Dir Pedro Costa/PT 2019/125 mins/Portuguese Dir Nick Rowland/GB 2019/101 mins wEngST painter Marianne is commissioned Dir Timothy Greenfield-Sanders/US 2019/120 mins Barry Keoghan, Ned Dennehy, Niamh Algar Vitalina Varela, Ventura, Manuel Tavares Almeida to paint the wedding portrait of An intimate meditation on the life and When a former boxer is offered a gig as In Pedro Costa’s Horse Money, Vitalina Héloïse, a reluctant bride-to-be who works of the legendary storyteller. Toni an enforcer with the local drug mafia, Varela made a memorable appearance, has just left a convent. Intimacy Morrison leads an assembly of her peers, life seems on the up – but the demands effectively playing herself. In this follow- and attraction grow between the critics and colleagues on an exploration weigh heavily as he makes inroads with up Varela steps into the foreground as two women, but their freedom is of race, America, history and the human his autistic young son, in Nick Rowland’s a woman who, after years waiting for short-lived. condition as seen through the prism of brooding yet tender crime film. a plane ticket, arrives in Portugal three her own literature. Preview/ There will be a preview days after her husband’s funeral. screening of Portrait of a Lady on Fire on Fri 14 Feb, 20:20. Preview And Then We Danced (CTBA) From Fri 13 Mar Dir Levan Akin/SE GE FR 2019/113 mins/ Georgian wEngST Levan Gelbakhiani, Bachi Valishvili, Ana Dark Waters (12A) True History of the Kelly Gang Color Out of Space (15) Javakishvili (18) Levan Akin’s award-winning Georgia- From Fri 28 Feb From Fri 28 Feb set drama explores the possibilities Dir Todd Haynes/US 2019/127 mins From Fri 28 Feb Dir Richard Stanley/PT US MA 2019/111 mins of love, cultural identity, sexuality and Anne Hathaway, William Jackson Harper, Mark Dir Justin Kurzel/AU 2019/125 mins Nicolas Cage, Joely Richardson, Madeleine Arthur, Ruffalo Q’orianka Kilcher self-expression within a repressively George MacKay, Essie Davis, Nicholas Hoult Inspired by a shocking true story, a The return of cult director Richard anti-LGBTQ+ society. A gripping Outlaw Ned Kelly lived only 25 years, tenacious attorney uncovers a dark Stanley, with an adaptation of H.P. love story, And Then We Danced but it was enough to write his story into secret that connects a growing number Lovecraft’s classic horror short story. A captures the beauty and stifling social Australian legend. Adapting the Booker of unexplained deaths due to one of meteor falls to Earth and lands on the values of Tbilisi alongside energetic Prize–winning novel by Peter Carey, the world’s largest corporations. In the property of a New England family – its choreography and an extraordinarily Kurzel offers a gloriously fictionalised process, he risks everything to expose increasingly unhinged patriarch played physical lead performance. and very violent tale of a true-life the truth. by the one-and-only Nicolas Cage – with renegade. Event/ On Tue 4 Feb, 18:00 we will insidious, delirious, and psychedelic have a special preview of this film as results. One for fans of Mandy. part of Iris on the Move that will be introduced by Berwyn Rowlands, Iris Prize Festival Director. 4 5 System Crasher (CTBA) (Systemsprenger) From Fri 27 Mar Dir Nora Fingscheidt/DE 2019/118 mins/German wEngST Helena Zengel, Albrecht Schuch, Gabriela Maria Schmeide Dogs Don’t Wear Pants (CTBA) Bacurau (18) The Truth (PG) Controversial from the moment (Koirat eivät käytä housuja) From Fri 13 Mar (La vérité) it premiered at the 2019 Berlin From Fri 13 Mar Dirs Juliano Dornelles, Kleber Mendonça Filho/ From Fri 20 Mar Film Festival, documentarian Nora BR FR 2019/131 mins/Portuguese and English with Fingscheidt’s fiction feature debut Dir J.-P. Valkeapää/FI 2019/105 mins/Finnish partial EngST Dir Hirokazu Kore-eda/FR JP 2019/107 mins/French wEngST and English with partial EngST portrays the life of a troubled young Bárbara Colen, Thomas Aquino, Silvero Pereira Pekka Strang, Krista Kosonen, Ilona Huhta Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Binoche, Ethan Hawke girl, and demonstrates a system that Bacurau merges sci-fi, the western, Heart surgeon Juha has lived life Kore-eda’s follow-up to his Palme is ill-equipped to deal with cases too Brazilian bandit movies (cangaço) and at an unengaged distance since his d’Or–winning Shoplifters transports the far outside their tightly defined norms.