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The Last Station
The Countess Sofya (Mirren), wife and muse to Leo Tolstoy (Plummer), uses every trick of seduction on her husband's loyal disciple (McAvoy), whom she believes was the person responsible for Tolstoy signing a new will that leaves his work and property to the Russian people.
STARTS APRIL 1
ADVANCED SCREENING FRI 26/3, SAT 27/3, SUN 28/3.
Cast:
James McAvoy, Christopher Plummer, Paul Giamatti and Helen Mirren
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Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky
Paris 1913, Coco Chanel is devoted to her work and madly in love. At the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, Igor Stravinsky premieres his Rite of Spring. Coco attends the premiere and is mesmerised. But the revolutionary work is too modern, too radical: the enraged audience boos and jeers. A near-riot ensues. Stravinsky is inconsolable.
7 years later. Now rich, respected and successful, Coco is devastated by her lovers death. She meets Stravinsky again - now a penniless refugee living in exile in Paris after the Russian Revolution, the attraction between them is immediate and electric. Coco offers Stravinsky the use of her new villa in Garches, so that he will be able to work, and he moves in straight away, with his children and consumptive wife. And so a passionate, intense love affair between two creative giants begins.
SUBTITLED FRENCH
STARTING APRIL 15
Cast:
Anna Mouglalis and Mads Mikkelsen.
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The White Ribbon
In a village in Protestant northern Germany, on the eve of World War I, the children of a church and school run by the village schoolteacher and their families experience a series of bizarre incidents that inexplicably assume the characteristics of a punishment ritual. Who could be responsible for such bizarre transgressions?
SUBTITLED GERMAN
STARTS MAY 6 Cast:
Leonie Benesch, Josef Bierbichler and Rainer Bock.
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Micmacs ŕ tire-larigot
Is it better to live with a bullet lodged in your brain, even if it means you might drop dead at any time? Or would you rather have the bullet taken out and live the rest of your life as a vegetable? Are zebras white with black stripes or black with white stripes? Is scrap metal worth more than landmines? Can you get drunk by eating waffles? Can a woman fit inside a refrigerator? What's the human cannonball record? All these questions and more are answered in MICMACS, the latest dazzlingly cinematic outing from Jean-Pierre Jeunet, a satire on the arms trade which grounds this director's cinema of fantasy firmly in reality.
SUBTITLED FRENCH
STARTS APRIL 1
ADVANCED SCREENING FRI 26/3, SAT 27/3, SUN 28/3
Cast:
Dany Boon, André Dussollier and Jean-Pierre Marielle.
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Welcome
Winner of the Ecumenical Jury Prize at the Berlin International Film Festival, Welcome is an emotionally affecting drama about intersecting lives, unlikely friendships and the hope of new beginnings.
Bilal (Firat Ayverdi), a 17-year-old Kurdish refugee has spent the last three months of his life travelling across Europe in an attempt to reunite with his girlfriend who recently immigrated to England. The journey has been difficult, but the end is in sight when Bilal finally reaches the far north coast of France, where he can literally see the white cliffs of Dover across the English Channel. But it is here that his journey comes to an abrupt halt as local authorities, and the immigration laws they are enforcing, prevent him from going any further.
FRENCH SUBTITLED
ADVANCED SCREENINGS SAT 3/4, SUN 4/4, MON 5/4.
STARTS 8 APRIL Cast:
Vincent Lindon, Firat Ayverdi, Audrey Dana and Derya Ayverdi
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