This November, you can looking forward to a Palme d’Or winner, Barry Keoghan’s first ever starring role, and much more.
Here are some of this month’s highlights…
ANATOMY OF A FALL arrives on Friday 10 November
Justine Triet’s latest feature, the enigmatic and icy Anatomy of a Fall was awarded a Palme d’Or at Cannes this year. When a woman is suspected of murder after her husband dies in a mysterious fall - a tragedy witnessed solely by the couple’s blind son - we’re presented with what seems to be a courtroom procedural. Yet as the story unfolds, glimpses into an increasingly troubled marriage transform the narrative’s trajectory into an unflinching and expertly rendered family drama.
DREAM SCENARIO arrives Friday 10 November
Directed by Kristoffer Borgli (Sick of Myself) and executive produced by Ari Aster (Beau is Afraid, Midsommar), Dream Scenario completes its stupendous trifecta with Nicolas Cage in the starring role. In this surreal black comedy, Cage stars as Phil, an extremely ordinary professor who inexplicably begins to appear in countless people’s dreams. As Phil’s dreamland ubiquity suddenly launches him from regular guy to a viral sensation, his nocturnal appearances start to become increasingly nightmarish…
Catch SALTBURN from Friday 17 November
From Emerald Fennell (Promising Young Woman), Saltburn is an intoxicating concoction of partying and privilege. Barry Keoghan (Banshees of Inisherin, The Killing of a Sacred Deer) stars as a bright-eyed Oxford University fresher from a working class background, who finds himself drawn to his aristocratic classmate Felix (Jacob Elordi; Euphoria and upcoming Priscilla). A heady summer spent at Felix’s eccentric family’s sprawling estate follows. A darkly funny and sensual tale of obsession and horrifying excess.
HOW TO HAVE SEX screens from Friday 24 November
Molly Manning Walker’s powerful debut How to Have Sex follows Tara (an incredible breakout performance from Mia McKenna-Bruce) and her friends: a group of post-GCSE teenagers gearing up for a clubbing holiday in Malia filled with hook ups, partying, and good times. It’s supposed to be the trip of their lives. The reality is more complex: in the midst of gargantuan cocktail fish bowls and strobe lights, the group navigate consent, sexuality, and self-identity.
MAY DECEMBER arrives on Friday 24 November
Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore star in Toddy Haynes’ (Safe, Carol) May December, as a celebrity couple with a substantial age gap return to the spotlight twenty years after their controversial romance became a tabloid sensation. When actor Elizabeth (Portman) begins research into the relationship between actor Gracie (Moore) and Joe (Charles Melton) ahead of an upcoming film about their life, cracks begin to appear in the decades-long relationship. Discomfort and intense emotions bubble beneath the film’s veneer of camp humour.
Catch WE DARE TO DREAM, our first LMFF screening, on Monday 27 November.
London Migration Film Festival is an annual film festival that’s been running since 2016, with the aim of challenging the narrow rhetoric on migration. The Lexi Cinema will be the venue for two LMFF screenings this year: We Dare to Dream (plus short film Canción de Pilo) on Monday 27 November, and a short film anthology screening on Tuesday 28 November.
Lexi Updates
Here at The Lexi Cinema, we’re gearing up for Christmas with the launch of our Membership Gift Sets, available in limited quantities and for a very limited time only.
We’re also excited to be launching gift vouchers, available in various denominations, on Monday 13 November. These can be redeemed against tickets, snacks, and drinks at The Lexi.
We’re also excited to host our community partners Salusbury World for an ESOL film club screening of Barbie this month.
Gen Sandle
Lexi Marketing and Comms
