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Forthcoming films:
Friday, 3rd of October, 8pm
The Marching Band
France 2024, 103 minutes, 15 certificate
Directed by Emmanuel Courcol, Starring Pierre Lottin and Benjamin Lavernhe
Tibaut is a distinguished orchestral conductor at the peak of his career, raised by an affluent, middle class family. During a rehearsal in Paris he collapses; subsequent investigations reveal that he has leukaemia and will need a bone marrow transplant. His immediate family can provide no suitable match: Tibaut was adopted as a child. So, his best chance at survival means he must track down his biological brother: Jimmy, a factory worker in a distant and depleted industrial town. Jimmy, as it happens, also has an interest in music – he plays the trombone very well in the factory’s own brass band, and he has a passion for collecting jazz on vinyl. Events unfold: the transplant, its outcomes, the fate of the brass band and who will lead it. Meanwhile, the two brothers get to know and kind-of love each other, each viewing his own life through the prism of the other’s experience, and the ‘what-might-have-beens’ shaped by chance, class, aspiration and opportunity. A box office sensation in its native France, this funny, tender, heartwarming and poignant comedy drama is a real treat – sweet but never saccharine, full of feeling but unsentimental, with plenty of grit and realism. It wears it’s heart unashamedly on its sleeve, but what a lot of heart this small gem has to share. Join us to kick off the new season. Watch the trailer here.
Saturday 4th April, 8pm. Prime Minister (cert 12)
Friday 10th April, 8pm. The Choral (cert 12)
