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Reality<br />
Mon 22 – Thu 25 April<br />
In 2008 Matteo Garrone burst onto the scene<br />
with Gommorah, his reinvention of the Sicilian<br />
gangster film as a naturalistic, almost<br />
documentary-style drama. With Reality he<br />
changes register completely and adopts an<br />
over-the-top style that seems to be channelling<br />
Fellini to look at the way an obsession with<br />
celebrity culture has shaped contemporary<br />
Italy.<br />
At the heart of Naples lives Luciano (Aniello<br />
Arena), a larger-than-life fishmonger whose<br />
exuberant personality has given him some<br />
special status in the community. Encouraged<br />
by his children, he auditions for the Italian<br />
version of Big Brother and in an instant becomes<br />
fixated on winning. Convinced that<br />
giving away his possessions (and those of his<br />
family) might give him a chance of winning,<br />
Luciano soon divorces himself from reality,<br />
losing sight of his friends, family and work in his<br />
desire to shape his fate and find fame and<br />
fortune.<br />
Arena, a semi-professional actor currently<br />
serving a life sentence for murder who was let<br />
out of prison for filming, is incredibly watchable<br />
as the man whose life is overturned by a<br />
chance at stardom. But as much as the film is a<br />
treatise on empty dreams, its real charm lies in<br />
the colourful community of family and friends<br />
who inhabit Luciano’s real world.<br />
Dir: Matteo Garrone<br />
Italy / France 2012 / 1h56m / Digital / 15<br />
Italian with English subtitles<br />
Senior Citizen Kane Club screening<br />
Thu 25 April, 10:30<br />
The Place Beyond The Pines<br />
Fri 19 April – Thu 2 May<br />
Reuniting with star Ryan Gosling after his emotionally crippling<br />
directorial debut Blue Valentine, director Derek Cianfrance ups<br />
the ante with The Place Beyond the Pines. This crime thriller<br />
stretches over multiple generations and co-stars Eva Mendes,<br />
Bradley Cooper, Rose Byrne and Dane DeHaan.<br />
Luke (Gosling) is a motorcycle stunt rider whose life is<br />
immediately changed when he re-connects with former flame<br />
Romina (Mendes) and discovers an infant son he didn’t know he<br />
had. Determined to provide for his newfound family, Luke<br />
ditches the stunts and instead turns to robbing banks, which<br />
puts him on a collision course with ambitious cop Avery Cross<br />
(Cooper).<br />
With a narrative that stretches over three acts, The Place Beyond<br />
the Pines is far more ambitious in scope that Blue Valentine, yet<br />
equally as gripping and wrought with emotion. Much of this is to<br />
do with its central theme of relationships and how sins are<br />
passed from generation to generation, providing a connection<br />
between each of the characters.<br />
Gosling, as usual, is on top form as Luke, while Cooper plays the<br />
ambiguous Avery with a subtle finesse that continues his growth<br />
as an actor. But the real skill lies with Cianfrance, who not only<br />
directs with flair, but also carves a narrative with depth, heart<br />
and some truly unexpected twists and turns.<br />
Dir: Derek Cianfrance<br />
USA 2012 / 2h16m / Digital / 15<br />
Bring a Baby screening Thu 2 May, 10:30<br />
Tickets 01382 909 900 9
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