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From acclaimed auteur Cristian Mungiu (4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days), comes a stunning new piece of cinema. Set in a remote Transylvanian town where customs and tradition bind the community together, historic resentments start to bubble to the surface with the arrival of some new immigrant workers who have been hired by the local factory. 

Underlying frustrations and fears soon grip the populace, erupting through the veneer of understanding and calm. With divisions forming and tensions running high, it falls to a few residents to try and prevent the community from breaking apart completely.

Featuring an outstanding cast, R.M.N. is a gripping, breathtaking and powerful new work from one of the masters of European cinema.

R.M.N. is the Romanian acronym for “nuclear magnetic resonance” and, sure enough, modern master Cristian Mungiu’s urgent, fiercely intelligent migration drama doubles as a laser-enhanced dissection of European hypocrisies and contradictions. – Irish Times

While ‘R.M.N.’ largely takes place in Romania, as Mungiu makes forcefully clear, this is also a story that transcends borders…his touch is so deft and his filmmaking so enlivening, and the villagers so laughable (if also scary!), that you never feel dragged down or punished by the ugliness. – New York Times

R.M.N. is as gripping and scrupulously humane as Mungiu’s admirers have come to expect from an artist of supreme discipline and dramatic skill. – Washington Post

96% Rotten Tomatoes

• R.M.N.
• Romania, 2022 | Language: Romanian | 2 h 7 min | Cert: 15A
• Director: Cristian Mungiu
• Cast: Marin Grigore, Judith State, Macrina Bârlădeanu
• Foreign language films are subtitled. 
• Cert: CLUB for over 18s.

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Online booking is appreciated. Click here to buy your ticket for NEVER GONNA SNOW AGAIN.

When Zhenia, a mysterious stranger (Alec Utgoff of Stranger Things), arrives in a wealthy gated community of identical white McMansions on the outskirts of a large Polish city, he is welcomed by the residents who embrace his talents as a masseur. Though his hands provide healing, his eyes seem to penetrate their very souls, lifting a disquiet in each of their lives. No one thinks to ask Zhenia about his own concerns, least of all his mysterious origins.

Anchored by Utgoff’s magnetic central performance, this study of class and modern malaise astutely blends magic realism with dark humour and stunning production design to often jaw-dropping effect.

93% Rotten Tomatoes

A film that asks a question for every answer it gives, and whose crackerjack images leave you wondering, in the best of senses: wait, what did I just see? – Financial Times

Alec Utgoff is irresistibly compelling, instilling in his character a silent yet singular presence. – New York Times

Don’t look for logic or literalness here, but rather magic and metaphor and let the film’s transporting, imaginative elements take over. – Los Angeles Times

Compelling and hauntingly realised. A searching, cryptic social satire of bourgeois insularity. Though immersed in particular strains and stresses of urban Polish society, it should resonate universally with its evocation of haves-and-have-nots tension, supported by droll comedy and lavishly atmospheric intrigue. – Variety

• NEVER GONNA SNOW AGAIN
• Poland, 2021 | Language: Polish | 1 h 53 min | Cert: CERT
• Director: Małgorzata Szumowska & Michał Englert
• Cast: Alec Utgoff, Maja Ostaszewska, Agata Kulesza, Weronika Rosati, Katarzyna Figura, Lukasz Simlat
• Foreign language films are subtitled. 
• Cert: CLUB for over 18s.

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Online booking is appreciated. Click here to buy your ticket for PAST LIVES.

Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrest apart when Nora’s family emigrates from South Korea the the U.S. Two decades later, they are reunited in New York for one fateful week as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life, in this heartrending modern romance.

Past Lives is an authentically beautiful romantic debut feature from playwright Celine Song. Exploring “In Yun’’, a Korean notion of connection between people – the string of fate which tangles together across different lifetimes, it subtly addresses the tension between a life longed for and the life lived.

With spellbinding performances from Greta Lee, Teo Yoo, and John Magaro it brims with compassion for how complicated the human condition can be.

96% Rotten Tomatoes

It is a film that embraces blended nationalities while acknowledging the pull of one’s earliest home. One leaves aware of unavoidable open-endedness but sated by a work that has achieved all its lofty ambitions. – Irish Times

The performances are impossibly strong and awards-season ready. Anything other than a best actress Oscar nomination for [Greta] Lee will be criminal.- Times [UK]

★★★★★ It’s a must-see… a beautiful, transporting film but one made with both feet firmly on the ground. – Guardian

’It is a very tough thing indeed to make a film that is at once restrained and brimming with feeling, a movie that could be fairly described as both big and small. – Variety

★★★★★ Celine Song’s tender, time-spanning romance is an exquisitely judged wonder. A directorial debut of remarkable poise and power. – Total Film

Plaudits to the principal cast, who do a miraculous job of portraying inner conflict and ecstasy with the merest tilt of a head, or subtle shift of a shoulder.  – Observer [UK]

• PAST LIVES
• USA, 2023 | Language: English/Korean | 1 h 46 min | Cert: 12A
• Director/Writer: Celine Song
• Cast: Greta Lee, Teo Yoo, John Magaro
• Foreign language films are subtitled. 
• Cert: CLUB for over 18s.

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Online booking is appreciated. Click here to buy your ticket for PARIS MEMORIES.

After an idyllic evening full of red wine and a late-night motorcycle ride home, Mia (Virginie Efira) stops at a Parisian bistro to take shelter from a downpour. Her reprieve is shattered when a gunman opens fire. Three months later, with a frustratingly hazy memory of the attack, Mia finds herself numbed and unable to resume her life. Her friends and partner seek something from her that she can no longer give.

Determined to reconstruct the sequence of events and re-establish a sense of normalcy, Mia finds herself repeatedly returning to the bistro where the shooting happened. In the process, she forms bonds with fellow survivors.

Inspired by the experiences of the director’s brother, who was present at the Bataclan attack, Paris Memories investigates the notion of memory and identity in the aftermath of violence. Approached from the perspective of the survivors, the film is an empowering testament to the resilience of humanity and how both complicated and simple, the healing process can be.

93% Rotten Tomatoes

Devastating, yet ultimately rewarding, Paris Memories [Revoir Paris] offers an alternative to the usual socio-political consideration of a terrorist attack by drawing a humane, kaleidoscopic portrait of various survivors’ crisis responses. – Empire Magazine

Despite the tragedy, “Revoir Paris” is a hopeful film about the healing power of human connection and mutual comfort. It’s the kind of movie that lingers in the mind long after the credits roll. – RogerEbert.com

Winocour’s film is a poignant mediation on personal trauma and the importance of memory. But the film also serves as a tribute to Paris – to remembering that it is possible to love a place despite experiencing something terrible there. – Little White Lies

Illuminated by a masterful performance by French actress Virginie Efira, Paris Memories makes the unimaginable experience of surviving a violent attack beautifully real and painfully universal. – IndieWire

It’s powerful film-making, grounded by Efira’s enormous, often silent, central performance. – Times [UK]

It’s a modest film with a heart very much on its torn sleeve, given force and ballast by another fine dramatic turn from the hard-working Virginie Efira. – Variety

• PARIS MEMORIES [REVOIR PARIS]
• France, 2022 | Language: French | 1 h 43 min | Cert: 15A
• Director: Alice Winocour
• Cast: Virginie Efira, Benoit Magimel, Gregoire Colin
• Foreign language films are subtitled. 
• Cert: CLUB for over 18s.

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