Paramount Cinemas - 25 Courtenay Place, Wellington

Times for week Thursday 27th June – Wednesday 3rd July

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Broken - 91 min (R16 violence,offensive language,sex scenes and content that may disturb) 4:15pm 2:55pm 4:15pm
Camille Rewinds - 110 min (M offensive language and nudity) 3:55pm
8:30pm 3:55pm
8:30pm 4:20pm
8:30pm 2:40pm 2:00pm 3:55pm
8:30pm 2:35pm
8:30pm
Everybody Has A Plan - 118 min (R16 Violence & offensive language) 4:10pm
8:30pm 3:30pm
7:55pm 4:10pm
8:30pm 6:55pm 4:10pm 4:10pm
8:30pm 4:10pm
8:30pm
Playshop Live - 80 min (M) 10:15pm
Still Mine - 103 min (PG Nudity & coarse language) 2:05pm
6:30pm 2:15pm
6:30pm 2:05pm
6:30pm 4:45pm 6:30pm 2:05pm
6:30pm 2:05pm
6:30pm
The Other Son - 105 min (M offensive language and drug use) 1:55pm
8:40pm 1:55pm
4:30pm 2:00pm
8:40pm 12:40pm 2:00pm 1:55pm
6:10pm 8:40pm
The Reluctant Fundamentalist - 130 min (M violence, offensive language & sex scenes) 4:05pm 6:10pm 6:45pm 4:05pm 4:05pm 4:05pm
Therese Desqueyroux - 110 min (M - Sex scenes) 2:05pm
6:25pm 1:25pm
5:45pm 2:05pm
6:25pm 12:50pm
4:45pm 2:05pm
6:25pm 2:05pm
6:25pm 2:05pm
6:25pm
Twelfth Night - 191 min (TBC) 6:00pm 1:00pm
Wellington Film Society: Don't Follow Me Around - 88 min (M) 6:15pm

Broken Winner of the top prize at the British Independent Film Awards, Broken takes place in a London cul-de-sac where an act of violence sends ripples through the three families who live there. The story is told through the eyes of a young girl called (for some reason) Skunk. In the opening scene she comes home to witness the disturbed adult son of the couple from across the way being savagely beaten by Mr. Oswald, her neighbor and father to three foul-mouthed daughters. It becomes apparent that the attack was provoked when one of the daughters invented a story about Rick to keep from getting into trouble with her father. As accusations fly between the two families, Skunk’s father, a soft-spoken solicitor, tries to mediate for both sides.
Camille Rewinds When her marriage ends, Camille is magically transported back to the year she was 16 and first met the man who would be her husband. Does she make the same mistakes when offered a second chance?

Everybody Has A Plan

Viggo Mortensen plays twin brothers, Pedro and Augustin. As Pedro, he is a reclusive bee-keeper living on an island. He seems to be a good man, living a simple life, but there is a hint that maybe not all is as it seems when we see how close he is to a childhood friend who is involved in something shady. For reasons that are not entirely clear, Pedro leaves his island and visits his twin brother, Augustin, (also played by Mortensen) a successful doctor living in Buenos Aires. The pair have been estranged for years, but it becomes apparent that each has something the other needs. What ensues is a twisted identity swap that allows Augustin to escape the life that’s been stifling him.

Playshop Live

Live improvised theatre

Still Mine

Craig and Irene have been married sixty years. They live on a farm in the remote Canadian area of Brusnwick. Craig has long shunned modern technology and prefers doing everything the old-fashioned way. So when Irene becomes ill and it becomes apparent she can’t stay in their ramshackle two story farmhouse, Craig sets out to build them a new home, on a single level, on the land he’s farmed his whole life. He even refuses help from his son, preferring to do the work himself, by hand. But even when you own the land, in this day and age you can’t build anything without a permit and Craig soon finds himself in a tangle of red tape as he battles the inflexible building inspector. He doesn’t have time for the bureaucracy as Irene’s dementia worsens, exacerbated by a fall that breaks her hip. The case goes to court where, with the support of the local paper and an understanding lawyer, he makes an impassioned plea that, surprisingly, doesn’t fall on deaf ears.

The Other Son

The Reluctant Fundamentalist

Twelfth Night

Therese Desqueyroux

An 18-year-old Israeli boy discovers he was switched at birth with a Palestinian boy when he's about to do his compulsory military service

A few years ago we screened a gritty little British drama called Shifty. It starred a then-unknown Riz Ahmed, and even then I thought he was an actor to keep an eye on. Here he plays Changez, a Pakistani in New York, living the American dream. He’s a Princeton graduate, has a great job on Wall Street, and is engaged to a gorgeous blonde artist. Then 9/11 happens and Changez’s life takes a sinister twist. Suddenly he’s the enemy and has to fight suspicion and racial prejudice at every turn. He travels back to Pakistan and takes a job as a professor at a Lahore university, questioning whether there is a Pakistani dreams as well as an American one. This is a powerful, challenging film about manipulation and assumptions. Nair draws us into her net and shows us how images can be manipulated to show what we want to see, therefore making her point that nothing is what it seems. It’s a film that poses difficult questions about out perceptions of East and West, but for those willing to confront their pre-conceptions, this is a rewarding ride

A moving comedy of loss and misplaced love that includes some of the most exquisite songs Shakespeare ever wrote. This all male production stars Mark Rylance and Stephen Fry. As performed by the Globe Theatre.

Audrey Tatou plays the titular character, a free- spirit crushed by the oppressive social mores of early 20th century France. Even as a carefree teenager, biking with her friend across the lush rural countryside, Therese knows she is fated to marry Bernard Desqueyroux. He is a landowner whose commercial pine forest adjoins the land Therese’s family owns. Joining the two family fortunes just makes sense, and so it is that Therese is married to the strict Catholic, bourgeois Bernard. But Therese is an intelligent woman, one with more ideas than she has time to explore, and she soon finds herself suffocating within a marriage that lacks passion or excitement. A child is born and Therese quickly realizes that the child is more important to her husband than she is. As the years plod by, Therese is an emotional prisoner, trapped by her marriage and society’s conventions. With no other options available to her, Therese experiments on her husband with medicines and poison.

Wellington Film Society Don’t Follow Me Around

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