There will be a host of films at Pontio Cinema in Bangor this March, whether you’re coming as a group, on a date or for a relaxing evening by yourself – there’s something for all tastes and ages.
Portrait of a Lady on Fire (15)
France, 1770. Marianne, a painter, is commissioned to do the wedding portrait of Héloïse, a young woman who has just left the convent. Héloïse is a reluctant bride to be and Marianne must paint her without her knowing. She observes her by day, to paint her secretly. Sciamma’s film has swept the world and is an acknowledged masterpiece and a landmark in feminist and LGBT+ cinema.
Céline Sciamma, 2019, 122m
Cast – Noémie Merlant, Adèle Haenel, Luàna Bajrami
Friday 28 February – Thursday 5 March
£7.50 standard / £6.50 over 60 / £6 student / £5.50 child (under 18s)
Emma (U)
Jane Austen’s beloved comedy is reimagined in this delicious new adaptation. Handsome, clever, and rich, Emma Woodhouse is a restless queen bee without rivals in her sleepy little town. In this glittering satire of social class and the pain of growing up, Emma must adventure through misguided matches and romantic missteps to find the love that has been there all along.
Autumn de Wilde, 2020, 125m
Cast – Ana Taylor-Joy, Josh O’Connor, Tanya Reynolds, Johnny Flynn
Friday 6 – Thursday 12 March
£7.50 standard / £6.50 over 60 / £6 student / £5.50 child (under 18s)
1917 (15)
Another chance to catch this extraordinarily immersive new film from Sam Mendes(Skyfall). This one-take technical masterpiece will be playing from day of release in Pontio on our big screen. Two young British privates during the First World War are given an impossible mission: deliver a message deep in enemy territory that will stop 1,600 men, and one of the soldier’s brothers, from walking straight into a deadly trap. Come and experience an unbelievably tense and exciting movie experience.
Sam Mendes, 2019, 120m
Cast – Benedict Cumberbatch, Richard Madden, George MacKay, Dean-Charles Chapman
Friday 6 – Tuesday 10 March
£7.50 standard / £6.50 over 60 / £6 student / £5.50 child (under 18s)
Little Women (U)
Writer-director Greta Gerwig (Lady Bird) has crafted a new version of the classic Little Women that is both timeless and timely. Come and enjoy the beloved story of the March sisters – four young women each determined to live life on her own terms.
Greta Gerwig, 2019, 135m
Cast – Florence Pugh, Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson
Saturday 7 – Thursday 12 March
£7.50 standard / £6.50 over 60 / £6 student / £5.50 child (under 18s)
Dark Waters (12A)
Todd Haynes’ (Carol, Far From Heaven) new film DARK WATERS is a dramatic and gripping expose of shocking real life corporate scandal. The heroic story of an attorney (Mark Ruffalo) who risks his career and family to uncover a dark secret hidden by one of the world’s largest corporations and to bring justice to a community dangerously exposed for decades to deadly chemicals is both timely and urgent.
Todd Haynes, 2019, 127m
Cast – Mark Ruffalo, Anne Hathaway, Tim Robbins
Friday 13 – Thursday 19 March
£7.50 standard / £6.50 over 60 / £6 student / £5.50 child (under 18s)
Military Wives (12A)
This rousing new film by the creator of The Full Monty follows a group of women whose partners are away serving in Afghanistan. Faced with the men’s absences, they band together to form a choir and quickly find themselves at the centre of a media sensation and global movement. Inspired by the real global phenomenon of military wives choirs, the story celebrates the original spirit of these trailblazers.
Peter Cattaneo, 2020, 113m
Cast – Kristin Scott Thomas, Jason Flemyng, Sharon Horgan
Friday 20 – Wednesday 25 March
£7.50 standard / £6.50 over 60 / £6 student / £5.50 child (under 18s)
The Invisible Man
When Cecilia’s abusive ex takes his own life and leaves her his fortune, she suspects his death was a hoax. As a series of coincidences turn lethal, Cecilia works to prove that she is being hunted by someone nobody can see. Plenty of thrills in this modern reimagining of both the novel of the same name by H. G. Wells and the 1933 Universal horror classic.
Leigh Whannell, 2020, 120m
Cast – Elisabeth Moss, Oliver Jackson-Cohen Griffin,Storm Reid
Friday 25 March – Wednesday 1 April
£7.50 standard / £6.50 over 60 / £6 student / £5.50 child (under 18s)
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