Maria12A

Directed by Pablo Larraín | USA | 2023 | 2h 3m | Starring Angelina Jolie, Pierfrancesco Favino, Alba Rohrwacher, Haluk Bilginer, Kodi Smit-McPhee

In the 1970s, famed opera singer Maria Callas retreats to Paris, her health in decline, and reflects on the soaring heights of her career and the many loves that defined her life. Through intimate conversations with a journalist, she revisits a life lived under the relentless gaze of the public eye. Following his celebrated biopics Jackie and Spencer, Chilean filmmaker Pablo Larraín directs this poignant and empathetic portrait of Maria Callas, brought to life with grace and depth by Angelina Jolie.

Nominated for Best Cinematography at the Academy Awards.

Reviews

‘As in Jackie and Spencer, Maria offers a wide-open vista of its subject through an arrow-slit of a temporal window: in this case, the final week of Callas’s life.’
★★★★
Robbie Collin, The Telegraph

‘La Diva Eterna lives in Jolie, with a performance as towering as it is understated: sad and soulful and heartbreaking. She has never been better. Brava!’
★★★★
John Nugent, Empire Magazine

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Saturday 6th December

15:30

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The Choral 12A
1h 53m
As World War I decimates membership of a Yorkshire choir, a group of teenagers and the gifted yet scandalous Dr. Guthrie step in. Ralph Fiennes anchors this poignant wartime drama written by Alan Bennett, celebrating community and music amid profound loss.

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20:30

The Running Man 15
2h 13m
In a brutal, televised bloodsport, fugitives are hunted by elite killers for nationwide entertainment. To save his dying daughter, Ben enters the arena, and becomes an electrifying symbol of rebellion. Edgar Wright unleashes pulse-pounding action as Glen Powell explodes in Stephen King’s fiercely dystopian thrill ride.

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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!