Screening as part of our season: Summer Nights in Brazil. All Sunday screenings will be introduced by a speaker tbc and presented alongside CINE BRAZIL.
A retired school teacher and young boy become unlikely travelling companions when the boy is suddenly orphaned and must find his estranged father. A success at the Berlin Film Festival where it won the Golden Bear award, the unassuming road movie thrust director Walter Salles into the spotlight for its naturalistic portrayal of longing and redemption. Embittered and living alone, Dora (Fernanda Montenegro), who transcribes letters for illiterate people and pockets the money without sending the notes, meets nine-year-old Josué (Vinícius de Oliveira) just before his mother is killed in an accident. After much deliberation, Dora reluctantly embarks on a journey through northern Brazil with Josué in search of his family. With striking cinematography and a rich portrayal of Brazil’s diverse landscapes, Central Station avoids sentimentality to become a moving study of connection between two strangers improbably joined together. We'll be screening the 4K restoration released by Curzon.
For more information on Cine Brazil visit their website here. This season is supporting by Film London.
Original title: Central do Brasil
Original language: Portuguese
Presented with English subtitles
We're extremely excited to announce our long-in-the-making mini season: UNDERSEEN DAVID LEAN! Best known for his epics like Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago, we instead wanted to focus on some of his delightful lesser screened, more class conscious earlier work. We'll be screening his Golden Bear winning Charles Laughton comedy HOBSON'S CHOICE, heart-breaking Claude Rains love triangle THE PASSIONATE FRIENDS, Katherine Hepburn's Venetian getaway in SUMMERTIME and his London-set (and Wembley visiting) wartime drama THIS HAPPY BREED. Tickets are just £10 with all Sunday screenings introduced by The Lexi's Co-Director (me!) and our final screening will feature a panel discussion with local historians.
