30/12/2010
Based on a previously unproduced script written in 1956 by French actor/director Jacques Tati as a letter to his estranged daughter, THE ILLUSIONIST is a quaint animated film about the magic and solace that can be found in an unfamiliar place.
Set in 1950s Scotland (and featuring our very own Cameo cinema in Edinburgh!), the film follows an aspiring conjuror who visits a rural village and is enchanted by a beguiling young woman who shows an interest in his powers of illusion.
Echoing the style of French comic book writer-cum-filmmaker Sylvain Chomet’s 2003 film BELLEVILLE RENDEZ-VOUS, THE ILLUSIONIST arrives off the back of an extended festival circuit run that has seen the director lauded as a cartoonist of incomparable cinematic vision.
01/01/2011
Winner of the Grand Prix at Cannes, A PROPHET demonstrates Audiard’s ability to rise beyond a genre to exceptional heights of emotional intensity.
Malik (Rahim) lands himself in jail at 19.
After a violent crash course in the ways of the ruling gang, he slowly begins, through his self-education, to challenge the prison power structures.
And as the long years of his sentence roll on, he uses his ruthless cunning to establish himself as a major new player.
A PROPHET moves fluidly from art-house subtlety to genre pyrotechnics in an endlessly powerful and absorbing tapestry of criminal life, which has all the epic human drama of such classics as SCARFACE and THE GODFATHER.
24/11/2011
24 November
United Kingdom 2011, 86 mins
Director: Dominic Allan
French painter Jean Marc Calvet recounts his incredible life story as a former Cannes bodyguard who abandoned his family, robbed a Miami mobster, hid out in Central America and at the age of 38 overcame addictions through an extraordinary metamorphosis, in which he began to paint.
That was seven years ago. Now his intricate paintings sell for five figures, but he remains desperate to reconcile with his son he left behind.
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29/11/2011
Tuesday 29 November
France 2011, 105 mins
To celebrate the release of French comedy ROMANTICS ANONYMOUS, you can enjoy a free chocolate tasting with Hotel Chocolat followed by a preview of this “playful, perfectly French love story” (Psychologies magazine).
With his beloved chocolate business turning sour, socially awkward boss Jean-René (Poelvoorde, COCO BEFORE CHANEL) decides to enlist an extra pair hands.
Enter Angélique (Carré, THE REFUGE), a chronically shy young woman who shares Jean- René’s passion for all things sugar and sweet.
She is the answer to his prayers, in ways he didn’t realise. Because while he is looking for a sales rep to keep his sinking ship afloat, she is in fact a gifted, albeit covert, chocolatière extraordinaire whose treats are legendary around town.
And as the pair become more and more acquainted it is not long before chocolate is not the only sensual element in the air. Now their respective lack of self-confidence is the only thing left standing in the way of the happiness they so crave.
11/03/2012
11 March 2012
Synopsis
A ballet in three acts based on a script by Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges, loosely based on the long poem by Lord Byron.
A swashbuckling romantic tale of the rescue of a beautiful slave from her tyrannical master by a handsome pirate, with some of ballet’s most famous individual passages.
Medora, a young Greek girl, is sold to Pasha by a slave dealer. The pirate Conrad seizes Medora and declares his love for her. But Conrad’s jealous right-hand-man sends Medora back to the slave dealer, who again sells her to Pasha…
