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SATURDAY 16 NOVEMBER
USA 87 mins + 12 mins 2019
THE SOUND OF SILENCE
Michael Tyburski
18:15 | GATE NARRATIVE
What if simply changing your toaster could alleviate all your mental ailments? Peter Lucian (Peter Sarsgaard) is a ‘house tuner’, a scientist claiming he can introduce harmony into the lives of his customers by identifying and eliminating conflicting sonic frequencies from their environments. Then Peter meets Ellen (Rashida Jones) and his theories fail to help her exhaustion, causing Peter to question his work and search meticulously for what went wrong. Michael Tyburski’s debut film presents an intricate study into the will to control modern life, and is a treat for eyes and ears. SE
Official Selection, Sundance Film Festival, 2019
Accompanied by a screening of Yorgos Lanthimos’ short film ‘NIMIC’ (12 mins).
PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE
(PORTRAIT DE LA JEUNE FILLE EN FEU)
Céline Sciamma
18:30 | EVERYMAN
Brittany, the 1770s. Marianna (Noémie Merlant) is a jobbing artist commissioned to paint the wedding portrait of Héloïse (Adèle Haenel), the daughter of a French countess. Marianna’s challenge is that Héloïse refuses to pose, objecting to the arranged marriage she is being forced into. As Marianna observes the defiant Héloïse while painting her in private, she becomes increasingly
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France 120 mins 2019 Subtitled
Second Chance Sun 17 Nov | 12:15 | Gate NARRATIVE
captivated by her subject. Every frame of Céline Sciamma’s achingly beautiful 18th-century love story is immaculate, the lead performances are beguiling and it is a film that confirms Sciamma (Water Lillies, Girlhood) as a major force in world cinema. MH
Winner, Best Screenplay, Cannes Film Festival, 2019
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