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TRUE THINGS
(15, 102 mins)
Showing now in UK & Ireland selected cinemas
A DANGEROUS infatuation consumes a thirtysomething woman in search of excitement in director Harry Wootliff’s toxic relationship drama adapted from Deborah Kay Davies’ novel True Things About Me.
Kate (Ruth Wilson) is deeply disenchanted with her job at a benefits office in Ramsgate, where she suffers verbal abuse from the clientele and is looking for a reason to quit.
Swaggering ex-con Blond (Tom Burke) walks into her office, flirts unabashedly during their meeting and invites her on a date.
They consummate an immediate sexual attraction in the car park and Kate surrenders herself entirely to Blond.
Ignoring the advice of best friend Alison (Hayley Squires), Kate tethers all of her hopes of a better life to Blond but he ghosts her and an unedifying existence threatens to implode.
COPPELIA (U, 82 mins)
Showing now in UK & Ireland selected cinemas
THE ballet of mechanical dolls set to Leo Delibes’ fleet-footed score is boldly reimagined as a dialogue-free sci-fi drama combining dance and animation, co-directed by Jeff Tudor, Steven De Beul and Ben Tesseur.
Set to a soundtrack that runs the musical gamut from classical to electronic, Coppelia promotes self-expression and individuality in an image-conscious modern age fuelled by social media. Sinister plastic surgeon Dr Coppelius (Vito Mazzeo) beguiles residents of a town with the promise of superficial beauty.
Franz (Daniel Camargo) is one of the locals, who falls helplessly under the spell of Coppelius’ robotic creations.
Spirited fiancee Swan (Michaela DePrince) vows to protect Franz and her community from harm and she executes an ingenious plan to rescue her beloved from Coppelius’s vice-like grasp.
Dame Darcey Bussell DBE co-stars.