UK • d: Mike Leigh • NR • 107m
The indispensable writer-director Mike Leigh, deep into his sixth decade of creating memorable works for theater, television and cinema, has gifted us with an unending stream of compassionate, unflinchingly honest but often funny perspectives of everyday characters in modern England. His latest film follows two social workers, Amy (Kate O’Flynn) and Rosie (Alice Bailey Johnson) who face, every day, a harsh reality: most of the people they try to help are too angry and withdrawn to even attempt to heal. Leigh complicates the story of chronically unhappy people with Amy’s parents (Marion Bailey and Paul Jesson), whose long happy marriage seems to weather even the insoluble challenges of aging. Though Leigh investigates some bleak corners of British society, he once again works miracles, weaving together his unpredictable combination of pessimism and optimism to bring us, amidst life’s sharp corners, profound joy and laughter. –Larry Gross
About the Telluride Film Festival
The Telluride Film Festival has been, for the last 50 years, a celebration of the art of film: honoring the great masters of the cinema, discovering the rare and unknown, bringing new works by the world’s greatest directors and the latest in American independent film to a small mountain town in Colorado. The New York Times called Telluride “the smallest, most original, and most stimulating of the major festivals,” while Entertainment Tonight simply said it was “the world’s best festival.”
About Telluride By The Sea
The Music Hall and the Telluride Film Festival collaborate on an exclusive presentation of six new features, brought directly from their Colorado debuts. This unique and intimate Portsmouth event treats audience members from across the Northeast to an exclusive peek into the Telluride experience—packing one September weekend in Portsmouth with the latest international cinema, private parties, great music, delicious food, and inspired conversations with other cinephiles of all ages, tastes, and backgrounds.
Schedule
Fri., 9/25 • 7pm • THE DEBUT
Sat., 9/26 • 1pm • FATHERLAND
Sat., 9/26 • 3:30pm • TENDER LOVING CARE
Sat., 9/26 • 7pm • INK
Sun., 9/27 • 12pm • WILD HORSE NINE
Sun., 9/27 • 3pm • ELSINORE
Sun., 9/27 • 6:30pm • BURGUNDY
