Details of future screenings
Monday 27 February 2012 at 7.30 pm THE SKIN I LIVE IN (15)
Spain 1999. 100 minutes. In Spanish with English subtitles.
Director: Pedro Almodovar. Starring: Antonio Banderas, Elena Anaya, Marisa Paredes.
A brilliant plastic surgeon creates a type of synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. Haunted by past tragedies, he uses a mysterious woman as his guinea pig. Stylish updating of the Frankenstein story by Spain’s most celebrated filmmaker.
Deliciously dark, superbly written thriller-slash-twisted love story that explores some fascinating ideas about obsession and revenge, and features a terrific performance from Antonio Banderas.
Matthew Turner in ViewLondon.
Monday 12 March 2012 at 7.30 pm OF GODS AND MEN (15)
France 2010. 122 mins. In French with English subtitles.
Director: Xavier Beauvois. Cast: Lambert Wilson, Michael Lonsdale, Olivier Rabourdin.
Eight French Christian monks live in harmony with their Muslim brothers in a monastery perched in the mountains of North Africa in the 1990s. When a crew of foreign workers is massacred by an Islamic fundamentalist group, the monks have to decide whether to leave or stay.
Beautifully acted by its ensemble cast, Of Gods and Men immerses us in its subjects' rituals, everyday tasks and spiritual dilemmas.
Tom Dawson in Total Film.
Monday 30 April 2012 at 7.30 pm THE SALT OF LIFE (12A)
Italy 2011. 90 mins. In Italian with English subtitles.
Director: Gianni Di Gregorio. Cast: Gianni Di Gregorio, Valeria De Franciscis.
Endearing comic tale about a man past his prime who longs for romance. Mid-August Lunch writer/director Gianni Di Gregorio returns with a second helping just as good as the first. Once again he plays a dutiful son with a mother in her 90s, but this time he has a wife and daughter as well.
Lustrous, effortless, entrancing, it infects your mood as happily as a hazy Roman afternoon.
Nigel Andrews in The Financial Times.
