Gagarine12A

Directed by Fanny Liatard & Jérémy Trouilh | France | 2020 | 1h 38m | French w/ English subtitles | Starring Alseni Bathily, Lyna Khoudri, Jamil McCraven

Teenager Youri has lived his whole life in the vast Gagarine housing estate, built in the 1960s on the outskirts of Paris and named after Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin. Now in a state of disrepair, the building is set to be torn down prompting Youri to fight against the authorities in an attempt to save his home. An affectionate celebration of close-knit communities combining down-to-earth social realism with a dreamy sci-fi-infused visual flair.

Reviews

‘Free of cliché, visually ingenious, Gagarine is a pleasure – pure magic realism, a homespun spectacular.’
★★★★★ Danny Leigh, The FT

‘Youri’s earthbound journey to the stars offers a stirring escape from an unjust reality. Like his Russian sorta-namesake, he’s a hero we can all get behind.’
★★★★ Philip De Semlyen, Time Out

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We showed Gagarine between October 22, 2021 and October 29, 2021.

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Today (Thursday 24th October)

15:30

The Outrun 15
Deaf/HOH Subtitles
1h 57m
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18:15

Young Frankenstein 12A
1h 46m
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20:45

Naked Lunch 18
+ Intro & Short Film
1h 55m (+ 20min short film)
David Cronenberg's (The Fly) adaptation of William S. Burroughs' novel about a bug exterminator who enters a bizarre underworld filled with government conspiracies and talking insects.

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Tomorrow (Friday 25th October)

16:15

Timestalker 15
1h 30m
A time-hopping heroine keeps falling in love and dying during different periods of history. Can she stop the cycle and break the curse? Alice Lowe delivers a wildly inventive twist on the rom-com genre with this witty, genre-bending sci-fi comedy.

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18:30

Häxan 15
+ Live Score
1h 46m
Grave robbing, possessed nuns, and a satanic Sabbath! Join us for a special screening plus live score of Benjamin Christiansen's 1920s silent horror docu-drama exploring the history of witchcraft, demonology, and satanism.

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21:00

The Rocky Horror Picture Show 12A
1h 40m
Get your fishnets out, leather gloves at the ready and “Let's do the time warp again". The Rocky Horror Picture Show is back for our annual Halloween extravaganza!

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Our beautiful art deco inspired auditorium can be found just off East Oxford's Cowley Road. We are open 7 days a week. We open the cinema and box office 30 minutes before the scheduled start time of each film, and the Box Office then closes 10 minutes after the film starts. We don’t show adverts, just a couple of trailers, so don't be late as the film itself starts very close to the advertised time!