Janet Planet12A

Directed by Annie Baker | USA | 2022 | 1h 53m | Starring Julianne Nicholson, Zoe Ziegler, Mary Shultz, Will Patton, Elias Koteas

In the summer of 1991, 11-year-old Lacy spends her days at home in rural Western Massachusetts, immersed in her imagination and the attentive care of her mother, Janet. As the months pass and various visitors come and go, Lacy watches Janet closely and starts to understand her own place in the world. In this tender debut, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Annie Baker offers a genuine and sometimes uneasy portrayal of motherhood and the raw experience of adolescence.

Reviews

‘Baker’s tingling delicacy of touch makes it a subtly distinctive experience: it’s a film I already looked forward to revisiting while tiptoeing through it the first time.’
★★★★★
Tim Robey, The Telegraph

‘There is nothing artificial here, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t mystery. It’s the mystery of people and their unusual behaviors and the way they can flit in and out of our lives and our consciousness.’
★★★★★
Esther Zuckerman, IndieWire

 

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We showed Janet Planet between August 9, 2024 and August 22, 2024.

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Tomorrow (Sunday 9th February)

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17:30

A Complete Unknown 15
2h 20m
Timothée Chalamet plays a young Bob Dylan as he arrives in New York in the early 1960s, takes the folk scene by storm, and controversially rips up the rulebook, reshaping the trajectory of American rock music.

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20:30

A Real Pain 15
1h 30m
Two cousins travel to Poland to honour their Jewish grandmother but soon recall why they’ve grown apart in the first place. Golden Globe-winning actor Kieran Culkin stars in this moving road-trip comedy, directed by co-star Jesse Eisenberg.

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Monday 10th February

18:00

Inside Llewyn Davis 15
1h 45m
With no winter coat, no steady home, and a shrinking circle of allies, a folk singer in 1960s Greenwich Village finds himself cut adrift and left behind in the Coen Brothers' melancholy exploration of the conflict between artistic idealism and commercial success.

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20:30

A Complete Unknown 15
2h 20m
Timothée Chalamet plays a young Bob Dylan as he arrives in New York in the early 1960s, takes the folk scene by storm, and controversially rips up the rulebook, reshaping the trajectory of American rock music.

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Plan your visit

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!