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Spring Season 2023

 

Thu 12 Jan - Both sides of the Blade

Original title: Avec amour et acharnement


Radio presenter Sara and former rugby player Jean are a happily married couple. Jean has had a stint in prison and has a troubled relationship with his teenage son, but his relationship with Sara is as passionate as ever. That happy marriage is thrown into turmoil, however, when Francois – a figure from both their pasts – suddenly re-enters their lives. As Jean starts a new business with his old friend, Sara’s romantic feelings for Francois are reignited.

Acclaimed filmmaker Claire Denis (Let the Sunshine In, High Life) brings together two of France’s most accomplished performers – Juliette Binoche and Vincent Lindon – in Both Sides of the Blade, a searing and sensual relationship drama as confident in its quieter moments as it is in its intense emotional climaxes.

Thu 26 Jan - The Forgiven

  • Dir: John Michael McDonagh, 2022, USA, 17 mins, Cert: 16 (IFCO)
  • Starring: Jessica Chastain, Ralph Fiennes, Matt Smith
  • Language: English
  • Trailer: https://youtu.be/ilKuczG7y6A

Speeding through the Moroccan desert to attend an old friend’s lavish weekend party, wealthy Londoners David and Jo Henninger (Ralph Fiennes and Jessica Chastain) are involved in a tragic accident with a local teenage boy. Arriving late at the grand villa with the debauched party raging, the couple attempts to cover up the incident with the collusion of the local police. But when the boy’s father arrives seeking justice, the stage is set for a tension-filled culture clash in which David and Jo must come to terms with their fateful act and its shattering consequences.

Thu 9 Feb - Juniper

  • Dir: Matthew Saville, 2022, New Zealand,  94 mins, Cert: 15A (IFCO)
  • Starring: Charlotte Rampling, Marton Csokas, George Ferrier, Edith Poor, Desray Armstrong, Angela Littlejohn
  • Language: English
  • Trailer: https://youtu.be/riSEHsGn3zc

Sam (17) has been on a self-destructive spiral that could lead to his death. He returns home from boarding school to find his wheelchair-bound English grandmother, Ruth has moved in. Ruth is an ex-war photographer with a lust for life and a love of the bottle. Sam soon finds himself profoundly confronted by her alcoholic wit and chutzpah. Their first meeting is awkward; their second violent. Things get worse when Sam finds himself stranded alone with her and her nurse Sarah for the school holidays. Both strong-willed characters, a battle of supremacy ensues, enabling Sam to embrace life again and for Ruth to face her mortality.

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