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4 New releases GOOD VIBRATIONS IN THE HOUSE A LATE QUARTET NEWRELEASE NEWRELEASE NEWRELEASE Good Vibrations Showing until Thu 11 Apr Lisa Barros D’Sa & Glenn Leyburn UK/Ireland 2012 • 1h43m • Digital projection 15 – Contains strong language, once very strong, and drug use Cast: Richard Dormer, Jodie Whittaker, Dylan Moran, Andrew Simpson, Adrian Dunbar. Begrudgingly accepting the title of Ulster’s Godfather of Punk, Terri Hooley was responsible for discovering The Undertones and, through his Good Vibrations record shop and label, along with the gigs he promoted, he enabled alternative music to be heard and to flourish in Belfast during the darkest days of Northern Ireland’s Troubles. His self-promoted legend is a wild mix of naivety, a refusal to compromise and a deep love for rock’n’roll, and it is vividly bought to the screen in this biopic from filmmakers Lisa Barros D’Sa and Glenn Leyburn. Good Vibrations evokes 1970s Belfast avoiding clichés and angst, and its fine cast, led by Richard Dormer as Hooley, is wonderfully committed. In celebrating the music of the time, the film dares to make an unfashionable case that pop music matters, that it can change lives, that it can be transcendent. It celebrates Hooley as truly heroic for making that same case all his life. (Michael Hayden, LFF programme) In the House Dans la maison Showing until Thu 18 Apr François Ozon • France 2012 • 1h45m Digital projection • French with English subtitles 15 – Contains strong language and sex and a scene of hanging Cast: Fabrice Luchini, Ernst Umhauer, Kristin Scott Thomas, Emmanuelle Seigner, Denis Ménochet. François Ozon follows the glorious camp of Potiche with this superbly controlled, coolly ironic adaptation of Juan Mayorga’s play ‘The Boy in the Last Row’. High-school literature teacher Germain (Fabrice Luchini) lives a beige, repetitive life; his despair at the state of contemporary education has given way to apathy and he is barely conscious of his curator wife’s (Kristin Scott Thomas) boredom. Unexpectedly, he discovers a student in his class whose compelling sense of prose and voyeuristic eye for detail stir his long dormant enthusiasm for his work. The daring and talented Claude (Ernst Umhauer) inveigles his way into the lives of a petit-bourgeois family, developing a particular fascination with the mother (Emmanuelle Seigner), and serialises his encounters in essay form under the increasingly voracious guidance of Germain. As Claude’s incursions become more audacious, the ground imperceptibly shifts, and the borders between reality and fiction become indistinguishable. Both a knowing ode to the art of storytelling and a scathing class critique, In the House sees Ozon return to the territory of Water Drops on Burning Rocks and Swimming Pool, not only in the precision of his form, but also in his flagrant admiration for the disruptive intruder with ambiguous desires. (Clare Stewart, LFF programme) A Late Quartet Fri 5 to Thu 25 Apr Yaron Zilberman • USA 2012 • 1h46m Digital projection • 15 – Contains strong language and sex Cast: Christopher Walken, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Mark Ivanir, Wallace Shawn. A powerhouse cast brings vivid life to Yaron Zilberman’s engrossing drama about an illustrious string quartet, whose quarter-century anniversary precipitates a tempestuous (and potentially explosive) release of repressed feelings, long-held resentments and painful betrayals. Peter (Christopher Walken), the group’s founding member, is diagnosed with a degenerative illness that forces him to confront the troubling question of who will succeed him – and what his legacy will be. The marriage between second violinist Robert (Philip Seymour Hoffman) and violist Juliette (Catherine Keener) goes suddenly south when infidelity rears its head; while brilliant, headstrong and steel-willed first violinist Daniel (Mark Ivanir), already engaged in a battle over first chair with Robert, brings tensions to a boil when he falls into the arms of Robert and Juliette’s beautiful young daughter Alexandra (Imogen Poots). As the ensemble’s ageing patriarch, Walken has never been better, brilliantly etching Peter’s turbulent indecision and, finally, clear-eyed resolve about the right path to take. Not to be outdone, the rest of the cast rise to Walken’s challenge, and Zilberman never missteps, guiding us gracefully through those painful inevitabilities of ageing and change that contrast so movingly with the timeless beauty of music.
New releases 5 NEIGHBOURING SOUNDS CAESAR MUST DIE LOVE IS ALL YOU NEED NEWRELEASE Neighbouring Sounds O som ao redor Fri 12 to Thu 18 Apr Kleber Mendonça Filho • Brazil 2012 • 2h11m • Digital projection Portuguese, English and Mandarin with English subtitles 15 – Contains strong language, sex, and nudity Cast: Irma Brown, Sebastião Formiga, Gustavo Jahn, Maeve Jinkings, Dida Maia. A dazzling ensemble drama, Neighbouring Sounds is set among a handful of residents in a middle-class street in the northern Brazilian city of Recife. Focusing on the appearance of a gang of private security guards who offer householders the promise of protection, writer-director Kleber Mendonça Filho offers revealing fragments of a society frayed by paranoia. A young man wakes up to find his girlfriend’s car has been broken into. A mother struggles to sleep, disturbed by the barking of guard dogs next door. An ageing patriarch seeks refuge from the tumult of the ever-changing city in the rural peace of his one-time plantation hideaway. The results thrillingly defy categorisation, but what emerges under Filho’s precise, quietly virtuoso direction is a film of novelistic richness and sly provocation; a kind of urban horror story about the fear of violence that ripples under the fragile poise of everyday middle-class life in Brazil. One thing’s for sure: this is a directorial debut of astonishing assurance. (Edward Lawrenson, LFF programme) NEWRELEASE Caesar Must Die Cesare deve morire Fri 19 to Mon 22 Apr Paolo Taviani & Vittorio Taviani • Italy 2012 • 1h16m Digital projection • Italian with English subtitles 12A – Contains one use of strong language Cast: Cosimo Rega, Salvatore Striano, Giovanni Arcuri, Antonio Frasca, Juan Dario Bonetti. Winner of the Golden Bear at the 2012 Berlinale, Paolo and Vittorio Taviani’s Caesar Must Die deftly melds narrative and documentary in a transcendently powerful drama-withina-drama. The film was made in Rome’s Rebibbia Prison, where the inmates are preparing to stage Shakespeare’s ‘Julius Caesar’. After a competitive casting process, the roles are eventually allocated, and the prisoners begin exploring the text, finding in its tale of fraternity, power and betrayal parallels to their own lives and stories. Hardened criminals, many with links to organised crime, these actors find great motivation in performing the play. As we witness the rehearsals, beautifully photographed in various nooks and crannies within the prison, we see the inmates also work through their own conflicts, both internal and between each other. NEWRELEASE Love Is All You Need Den skaldede frisør Fri 19 Apr to Thu 2 May Susanne Bier • Denmark/Sweden/Italy/France/Germany 2012 1h56m • Digital projection Danish, English and Italian with English subtitles 15 – Contains strong language Cast: Pierce Brosnan, Trine Dyrholm, Kim Bodnia, Paprika Steen, Sebastian Jessen. Pierce Brosnan, Trine Dyrholm and Paprika Steen star in this sparkling romantic comedy from Academy Award® winner Susanne Bier (Brothers, In a Better World), about two very different families brought together for a wedding in a beautiful old Italian villa. Returning from her final, successful chemotherapy treatment, Ida (Dyrholm) arrives home only to find her boorish husband in a compromising position with a ditzy co-worker. Stricken, she takes off to Sorrento alone to attend the wedding of her daughter Astrid to Patrick. Also attending is Patrick’s no-nonsense father Philip (Brosnan), a dashing but brooding widower who seems less than pleased with his life, his son, and his soon-to-be in-laws. When the young couple’s future happiness is suddenly jeopardised, Ida and Philip are brought together to try to set things right – and find that life might have a second chance in store for them as well. “Love Is All You Need has been made for an audience rarely catered for by the film industry: intelligent adults who enjoy perceptive and good-hearted drama.” - Robbie Collin, The Telegraph
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