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THE BIKE THIEF

THE BIKE THIEF
2020 | Dir Matt Chambers | 79 mins | UK

This British drama starring Alec Secăreanu (God’s Own Country) is a modern re-imagining of Vittoria de Sica’s Bicycle Thieves.
The Rider (Alec Secăreanu) is an ordinary man, working hard to protect and support his family. He works as a delivery driver while his wife, Elena (Anamaria Marinca, 4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days), spends her days cleaning grand houses and caring for their two children. When the Rider’s moped is stolen, he must race against time to recover the source of his livelihood. A timely examination of the precarity of London’s working class.
English and Romanian with English subtitles.

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“A modern update on Vittorio De Sica’s neorealist classic Bicycle Thieves, Matt Chambers’ feature debut pays the same attention and care to the day-to-day struggles of the urban working class. The refusal to either romanticise or overly dramatise it makes for especially poignant results and the clear-eyed, unsentimental approach renders the characters’ turmoil even more tragic” Phuong Le in The Guardian

ONCE UPON A RIVER

ONCE UPON A RIVER
2019 | Dir Haroula Rose | 92 mins | USA

Based on the best-selling novel by Bonnie Jo Campbell, ​Once Upon A River ​is the story of Native American teenager Margo Crane (Kenadi DelaCerna) in 1970s rural Michigan who after enduring a series of traumas and tragedies, sets out on an odyssey on the Stark River in search of her estranged mother.

On the water, Margo encounters friends, foes, wonders, and dangers; navigating life on her own, she comes to understand her potential, all while healing the wounds of her past.

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Distributor: Bulldog Film Distribution – no account required.

Kenadi Delkacerna absolutely shines in not only her first feature film but her first leading role as well” – Alan Ng, Film Threat

“A resourceful girl goes in search of her mother in first-time feature director Haroula Rose’s slice of Americana” Peter Bradshaw in The Guardian

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HERE ARE THE YOUNG MEN

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HERE ARE THE YOUNG MEN
2021 | Dir Eoin Macken | 96 mins | Ireland USA

Dublin 2003. Aimless teenager Matthew (Dean-Charles Chapman) and his disaffected friends leave school into a social vacuum of drink, drugs and thrill-seeking in one last summer of adolescence. Matthew romantically yearns after his free-spirited friend Jen (Anne Taylor-Joy) and struggles to maintain his increasingly disturbing relationship with the magnetic but sadistic Kearney (Finn Cole). Whilst their precocious friend Rez (Walsh Peelo) has started to succumb to paranoia and depression.
Matthew and the group are soon led by the deranged Kearney into a world of nihilistic violence, falling into shocking acts of transgression that will irrevocably change their lives.

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Written and directed by Eoin Macken based on the novel of the same name by Rob Doyle.

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TRUMAN TENNESSEE

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N/C 12+ TRUMAN & TENNESSEE
2020 | Dir Lisa Immordino Vreeland | 81 mins | USA

Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams – writers, celebrities, geniuses – catapulted to fame in the 1950s, sparking a friendship and rivalry spanning nearly 40 years until their deaths within a year of each other. Inextricably entwined, and fixtures of their age, they were creative powerhouses (and gay men) who dealt with success and its evanescence in vastly different ways. In Truman & Tennessee: An Intimate Conversation, filmmaker Lisa Immordino Vreeland (Love, Cecil, Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict, Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel) brings the two forces together in a unique and fascinating tête-à-tête, comparing and contrasting their trajectories through dueling voices —the writers’ own, culled from archival footage, and the voices of actors Jim Parsons and Zachary Quinto (The Boys in the Band) portraying, respectively, Capote and Williams at various stages of their lives.

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Includes Q&A with director Lisa Immordino Vreeland hosted by Jason Solomons (32 mins).

Both Truman and Tennessee created rich, imaginary worlds and characters (Blanche DuBois, Holly Golightly) that left indelible marks on the era —and both paid the price of colossal success and fame through alcoholism and periods of artistic stagnation. Immordino Vreeland, whose growing body of work examines the working lives and social impact of 20th-century creative visionaries, adds two more remarkable subjects to her oeuvre, tumultuous compatriots who electrified the culture with words steeped in the nascent forces that shaped them.

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