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Sunday, 2nd of November, 7pm
Sister Midnight
India/UK 2024, 107 minutes, 15 certificate
Directed by Karan Kandhari, Starring Radhika Apte, Ashok Pathak, Chhaya KadamUma
Uma and Gopal have entered into an arranged marriage, and things are not going according to plan. Uma is not a natural housewife, with no idea how to keep the marital home or prepare a meal. Gopal, meanwhile, comes home late and drunk; the marriage remains unconsummated. Bored and frustrated, Uma seeks turns to her neighbour for company and cooking lessons, eventually taking a job as a cleaner meaning that the couple are seldom together, setting the other neighbours gossiping. Gradually, Uma leans into her rage and her marginal status, surrounding herself with other outsiders, the film expressing this ‘otherness’ in a dazzling, genre-bending odyssey.
Uma journeys across cinematic genres – one moment Disney-esque, then Western, then Zombie horror – towards becoming someone independent and formidable, but the film is all about her journey: bizarre, hilarious, dark, chaotic and unlike any other film you have seen or are likely to see any time soon. Delicious and audacious, and garlanded with awards world-wide. Watch the trailer here.
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Friday 7 Nov 2025, 8:00PM The Salt Path (cert 12)
Friday, 7th of November, 8pm
The Salt Path
UK 2025, 115 minutes, 12 certificate
Directed by Marianne Elliott, Starring Gillian Anderson, Jason Isaacs
A married couple – let’s call them Raynor and Moth – find themselves in dire straits after a financial calamity that sees them lose everything: home, livelihood, money, the lot. To add to this, Moth is given a devastating and life-limiting neurological diagnosis, and told not to demand too much of himself. Their home seized by the bailiffs, and their children off in education and travel, Ray and Moth decide – in the absence of any other plan – to just walk: grab a tent and some boots, pack a few meagre possessions, and walk the South West Coastal Path, living off whatever benefits they are entitled to. The hope is that communion with nature and physical endurance will be healing, that it will put things back into perspective and reconnect them with each other. So far so uplifting. But shortly after this film’s release, the source material for this film – Raynor Winn’s memoir – came under serious scrutiny. The veracity of Winn’s account was called into question, not least some major sins of omission from her back story, tainting her narrative of blameless circumstance and personal redemption. Moth’s diagnosis was also questioned. Regardless of whether or not we’re witnessing a fiction or a truth, this is an absorbing drama of redemption and rebirth, of two people facing down unimaginable difficulty. Come to ponder the blurred lines between memoir and fiction; stay for Anderson and Isaacs on exceptional form, a truly moving account of a marriage re-finding its feet and the breathtaking landscapes of South West England that dwarf all other concerns about narrative veracity. Watch the trailer here.
Sun 21 Dec 2025, 7:00PM The Life of Chuck (cert 15)
