Films this week at Pontio in Bangor include Don’t Worry Darling (15), The Lost King (15) and ROH Live screening of AIDA (12A).

Multi-award winning duo Catrin Finch and Seckou Keita will perform at Theatr Bryn Terfel on Friday.

 

Special offer: £5 tickets for all 2pm showings Monday-Wednesday.

For more information and to Book for all events visit the Pontio website here: https://www.pontio.co.uk/

Cinema:

NT LIVE: Jack Absolute Flies Again (12A)

Bean, Oliver Chris, Emily Burns, 2022, 180m

Cast – Caroline Quentin, Kelvin Fletcher, Laurei Davidson

Thursday 6 October, 7pm + Sunday 9 October, 2pm (Encore)

£13 / £11 / £10

A rollicking new comedy based on Sheridan’s The Rivals. After an aerial dog fight, Pilot Officer Jack Absolute flies home to win the heart of his old flame, Lydia Languish. Back on British soil, Jack’s advances soon turn to anarchy when the young heiress demands to be loved on her own, very particular, terms.

Don’t Worry Darling (15)

Olivia Wilde, 2022, 123m

Cast – Florence Pugh, Harry Styles, Chirs Pint, Gemma Chan

Friday 7 – Thursday 13 October

£7.50 standard / £6.50 over 60 / £6 student / £5.50 child (under 18s)

The most talked about film of the year is here. Alice (Pugh) and Jack (Styles) are a lucky 1950s couple living in Victory, the company town housing the men who work for the top-secret Victory Project and their families. While the husbands spend every day inside the Victory Project Headquarters, their wives get to spend their time enjoying the beauty, luxury and debauchery of their community. Life is perfect, with every resident’s needs met by the company. All they ask in return is discretion and unquestioning commitment to the Victory cause. But when cracks in their idyllic life begin to appear, how much is Alice willing to lose to expose what’s really going on in this paradise?

The Lost King (15)

Stephen Frears, 2022, 108m

Cast – Steve Coogan, Sally Hawkins, Harry Lloyd

Friday 14 – Thursday 20 October

£7.50 standard / £6.50 over 60 / £6 student / £5.50 child (under 18s)

Starring and written by Steve Coogan this is a life-affirming true story. In 2012, having been lost for over 500 years, the remains of King Richard III were discovered beneath a carpark in Leicester. The search had been orchestrated by an amateur historian, Philippa Langley, whose unrelenting research had been met with incomprehension by her friends and family and with scepticism by experts and academics. The story of a woman who refused to be ignored and who took on the country’s most eminent historians, forcing them to think again about one of the most controversial kings in England’s history.

ROH Live: AIDA (12A)

Live Screening

Verdi, 2022, 180m

Cast – Elena Stikhina, Francesco Meli

Wednesday 12 October, 6.45pm

£15 / £12.50 / £10

Princess Aida has been kidnapped: a valuable prize in a war between Egypt and Ethiopia. Meanwhile, the ambitious soldier Radames wrestles with his feelings for her. As they draw closer together, each must make an agonizing choice between their loyalty to home, and their love for each other. In this new production, director Robert Carsen situates Verdi’s large-scale political drama within a contemporary world, framing its power struggles and toxic jealousies in the apparatus of a modern, totalitarian state. Royal Opera Music Director Antonio Pappano conducts Verdi’s glorious, monumental score.

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Theatr Bryn Terfel

Catrin Finch a Seckou Keita

A Mwldan Production

Friday 14 October 7.30pm

£18 – £20

Multi-award winning duo Catrin Finch and Seckou Keita tour the UK in 2022 to celebrate the release of their third album ECHO, the tender triumph of an extraordinary musical partnership that combines Wales and Senegal, harp and kora, the classical and traditional, different cultures and common humanity.

The harp and kora share centuries of history, and Catrin and Seckou create a unique dialogue in a musical alliance of rare empathy, inspired by differences and similarities. Their atmospheric magic crosses genre boundaries, from folk and world to classical and contemporary as their fingers flow like opposing tributaries into a single river of sound.

“Hypnotic and ethereal, SOAR is a unique marriage of cultures”

4* NEIL SPENCER, THE OBSERVER

“A bewitching work of beauty”

ROBERT MACFARLANE

“an emotional demonstration of how two virtuoso musicians triumphantly bring different cultures together”

5* ROBIN DENSELOW, THE GUARDIAN