When Helen's beloved father passes away, she is knocked sideways by grief and loses herself in memories of their time birding and exploring the natural world together. She becomes obsessed with the idea of training her own goshawk, and so she brings the fearsome bird Mabel home to her life as a graduate fellow at Cambridge. Helen fills the freezer with hawk food and turns off her phone, ready to embark on the long, strange business of trying to train this wildest of animals. But as she labours to tame Mabel, a grieving Helen undergoes an untaming of her own. A record of a spiritual journey, H IS FOR HAWK is a story about memory and nature and how it might be possible to reconcile death with life and love.
Please arrive promptly - we show 10 minutes of trailers before each film and do not show adverts.
Celebrate the modern master of melodrama and his iconic collaborators.
Ahead of next year's release of his newest film: Amarga Navidad, The Lexi will be celebrating Pedro Almodóvar, the modern master of melodrama with a focus on the women he has directed. The activity will spotlight the performances of Victoria Abril, Marisa Paredes, Cecilia Roth and Penélope Cruz across four of their iconic collaborations with Pedro.
Join us throughout December for:
TIE ME UP! TIE ME DOWN! (1989) (Sun 30 Nov, Mon 1 & Wed 3 Dec)
THE FLOWER OF MY SECRET (1995) (Sun 7, Mon 8 & Wed 10 Dec)
ALL ABOUT MY MOTHER (1999) (Sun 14, Mon 15 & Wed 17 Dec)
VOLVER (2006) (Sun 21 & Mon 22 Dec)
All Sunday screenings will feature an introduction and tickets are only £10. Escape the winter blues with four trips to sunny Spain!
