Underground15

Directed by Sophie Dupuis | Canada | 2020 | 1h 37m | French w/ English subtitles | Starring Joakim Robillard, Théodore Pellerin, Chantal Fontaine

The lives of a group of French-Canadian miners is thrown in disarray after an unexplained underground explosion. Maxim, a young worker with a troubled history, tries to find redemption for past mistakes by saving his stricken colleagues. A tense and remarkably intimate drama that delves deep into the dynamics of fractured friendships and fragile masculinity.

Reviews

‘Dupuis puts human drama ahead of the action in this naturalistic, character-driven film…[this] disaster film digs deeper than most’
Cath Clarke, The Guardian

‘Dupuis’s knack with actors and for navigating how men perform masculinity — and are hindered by it — is on full display here.’
Alex Heeney, Seventh Row

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Today (Thursday 25th June)

15:30

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18:00

Red Rooms 18
1h 58m | French w/ English subtitles
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20:45

Wiñaypacha Cert-TBC
1h 26m | Aymaran w/ English subtitles
An elderly couple in Peru’s remote Andes endure harsh daily realities while awaiting their son’s return from the city. Óscar Catacora’s award-winning debut reflects Peruvian culture, traditions and cosmology. Presented by the University of Oxford Indigenous Society.

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Tomorrow (Friday 26th June)

15:30

Time and Water PG
1h33m
Author Andri Snær Magnason weaves family archives, traditional song, and Icelandic folklore into an elegy for a disappearing landscape. An urgent, deeply personal documentary about memory, loss, and living through irreversible change, from director Sara Dosa (Fire of Love).

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17:45

Savage House 15
1h 54m
When ruthless social climbers Sir Chauncey and Lady Savage secure a dinner with the Duke and Duchess of Devonshire, their ambitions collide with pox, Jacobite uprising, and bloodshed. Claire Foy and Richard E. Grant star in this sharp period comedy about class and power.

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20:30

Tuner 15
1h 47m
A piano tuner discovers his gift for precision translates naturally to cracking safes, and finds himself drawn into a criminal underworld. Leo Woodall and Dustin Hoffman star in Oscar-winner Daniel Roher's thriller of elegant plotting and quiet moral complexity.

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