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Prewar India Examined in BEFORE THE RAINS
Power, passion and intrigue combine in the stylish drama BEFORE THE RAINS (12A) (pictured right) from Friday 25 July. Set in India in 1937, the film centres around an English businessman (Linus Roache) intent on establishing a plantation, who finds himself at the mercy of villagers when his affair with a local woman is discovered. Showing in sumptuous digital.
One of this year's biggest hits at the Picturehouse, MAMMA MIA! (PG) continues to pull in the crowds and its run has been extended to 31 July. Book early to avoid disappointment.
THE VISITOR (15) ends on Thursday 24 July and Bruce Weber's Oscar-nominated portrait of jazz musician Chet Baker, LET'S GET LOST (15), screens on Wednesday 23 and Thursday 24 July. Both films are digital presentations.
Our Summer Season of Ballet and Opera continues with the ballet SYLVIA, starring Darcey Bussell, on Tuesday 22 and Thursday 24 July, and Mozart's opera LE NOZZE DI FIGARO (THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO) on Sunday 27 and Tuesday 29 July. Both productions are from the Royal Opera House. See the highlight below for further performances in the programme.
See the Coming Soon section below for a taster of some of the films coming up in our new six-week programme that starts on 1 August, including Holiday Specials for the whole family at only £2 for Child Members.
Our Facebook group 'Exeter Picturehouse' features trailers for most of our current and upcoming features. Why not tell us what you think of them on The Wall?
Free Live Music in the bar from 8.00 on Thursday 24 July: Pop Noise Records presents National Pastime, A Fine Day For Sailing, Fat Battery, The Painted Word and Simon Bish.
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Royal Opera House, San Francisco Opera and Picturehouse Cinemas present a Summer Season on the big screen in stunning HD and Digital 5.1 Sound.
The Summer Season was curated exclusively for Picturehouse Cinemas and brings together an exciting and vibrant mix of some of the most popular operas and ballets of the past three years. From The Royal Ballet we have The Sleeping Beauty (3 & 5 August) and Romeo and Juliet (17 & 19 August). From The Royal Opera we present Le Nozze di Figaro (The Marriage of Figaro) (27 & 29 July) and Carmen (24 & 26 August); and the San Francisco Opera brings us Madama Butterfly (10 & 12 August).
For further details on the ballets, please click here.
For further details on the operas, please click here.
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A FEW HIGHLIGHTS FROM OUR NEW SIX-WEEK PROGRAMME...
Week Beginning Friday 1 August:
Summer Season: THE SLEEPING BEAUTY
BEFORE THE RAINS (12A)
SUMMER HOURS (12A)
A COMPLETE HISTORY OF MY SEXUAL FAILURES (18)
COUSCOUS (15)
Kids' Club: CURIOUS GEORGE (U)
Holiday Special (only £2 for Child Members): KUNG FU PANDA (PG)
ALSO COMING UP...
From Friday 8 August: MAN ON WIRE (15) & ELEGY (Cert TBC)
From Friday 15 August: MISS PETTIGREW LIVES FOR A DAY (PG) & Holiday Special (only £2 for Child Members) PRINCE CASPIAN (PG)
PLUS...
Holiday Special: WALL-E (screening in digital); HELLBOY 2; ZERO: AN INVESTIGATION INTO 9/11; Back by Demand: XXY; BUDDHA COLLAPSED OUT OF SHAME... and lots more! |
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Director: Santosh Sivan Origin: India, United Kingdom, United States Year: 2008 Duration: 98m Starring: Linus Roache, Leopold Benedict, Rahul Bose
An Englishman intent on opening a spice plantation in Kerala attempts to gain the trust of the local villagers and destroys numerous lives in the process in this period drama from director/cinematographer Sivan. The year is 1937, and the power that the English wield over the citizens of India can be devastating even in the mildest of cases. Henry Moores (Roache, PRIEST) is an entrepreneur who has singled out Kerala as the site of a potentially lucrative spice business. While he is busy attempting to realise his professional goals, his personal needs fall on the shoulders of his pretty housekeeper, Sajani (Das). One day, when their trip into the forest to collect honey takes a decidedly sensual turn, two local boys witness the erotically charged tryst and word eventually gets back to Sajani's husband.
*Contains moderate violence
To book tickets, call 0871 704 2057 or book online
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Director: Phyllida Lloyd Origin: United Kingdom, United States Year: 2008 Duration: 98m Starring: Pierce Brosnan, Colin Firth, Christine Baranski, Meryl Streep, Julie Walters
MAMMA MIA! brings the timeless lyrics and melodies of iconic super-group ABBA and the worldwide smash stage hit to the big screen. An independent single mother who owns a hotel on a Greek island, Donna (Streep), is about to let go of her daughter Sophie (Amanda Seyfried), as she is getting married. Sophie has secretly invited three guests; on a quest to find her father to walk her down the aisle, she brings back three men from Donna's past to the island they visited 20 years earlier. Over 24 chaotic, magical hours, new love will bloom and old romances will be rekindled. Inspired by the storytelling magic of ABBA's songs, MAMMA MIA! is a celebration of mothers and daughters, old friends and new family found.
*Contains mild language and sex references
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Duration: 93m
Music: Léo Delibes, choreography: Frederick Ashton, conductor: Benjamin Pope, cast: Darcey Bussell, Roberto Bolle, Thiago Soares, Martin Harvey, Mara Galeazzi. Directed for screen by Ross MacGibbon, Recorded by the BBC 5th December 2005
Ashton's Sylvia was restored to the splendour of its elegant and opulent three-act form for the 75th anniversary celebrations of The Royal Ballet and it is now firmly back in the Company's repertory. Its story, from Greek myth, tells of Sylvia, whose vows of chastity mean she cannot return the love of the shepherd Aminta. Eros, up to his tricks, intervenes, only to see Sylvia abducted by the hunter Orion. Rescuing her, Eros finally brings the lovers together.
Ashton was inspired by the music of Léo Delibes to create such great choreographic sequences as the famous Act III pas de deux and the role of the mischievous Eros, one of those delightful, darkly comic characterisations for which Ashton became known and loved. With Margot Fonteyn as his original Sylvia, Ashton made the title role a wonderful showcase for virtuosity, invention and classical beauty. And it is indeed a beautiful ballet to look at - the epitome of Ashton style in stage settings of great detail and painterly splendour.
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Director: Thomas McCarthy Origin: United States Year: 2007 Duration: 103m Starring: Hiam Abbas, Danai Gurira, Richard Jenkins, Haaz Sleiman
In McCarthy's follow-up to his award-winning debut THE STATION AGENT, Richard Jenkins (Six Feet Under) stars as widower Walter Vale who discovers that a young immigrant couple, Tarek (Sleiman) and Zainab (Gurira), have been scammed into illegally renting his vacant flat in New York City. Walter agrees to let them stay until they find a place and soon Walter and Tarek form a friendship. When Tarek is confined to a detention centre, and his mother arrives in search of him, Walter's emotional commitment to Tarek's case is sealed. As the four people struggle to deal with the stark realities of the US immigration system and their own individual lives, their shared humanity is revealed in awkward, humorous and dramatic ways.
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