This year’s BFI London Film Festival has a final gala and is ‘Ammonite’, the highly anticipated follow-up by writer-director Francis Lee in ‘God’s Own Country’. The film, starring Kate Winslet and Saoirse Ronan, will bring down the curtain of the new stare festival on October 18, with simultaneous screenings in UK cinemas and a virtual cast arrival. Set in Dorset in the 1840s, “Ammonite” is the story of Mary Anning (Winslet). She is a troubled paleontologist whose life force is revived with the arrival of Mary Murchison (Ronan), a young woman who is recovering from a private tragedy. Love and, without a doubt, high-level performances through two of the most productive actors of their respective generations, will be produced.
It’s glorious to see this film about intimacy, love and hope in its UK premiere at the LFF. “””””” says festival director Tricia Tuttle, and here she offers reflections on the difference in elegance and the erasure of women at the clinical hitale. On 7 October, in combination with Letitia Wright, he told the story of Mangrove Nine, an organization of black activists whose participation in a 1970 protest march in west London resulted in arrest and then a game-changing legal battle.
Instead of the classic 12-day film festival that is basically screened in West End cinemas, the Simplified London Film Festival will be a largely virtual occasion from 7-18 October. It will be in the UK cinemas for the first time in the historic year 63: along with ‘Ammonite’ and ‘Mangrove’, 11 more advances will be offered to viewers, to accompany 50 films that will be available on VOD. The London cinemas that host this last night come with Ciné Lumiére, Curzon Mayfair, Curzon Soho, ICA, Prince Charles Cinema and, of course, BFI Southbank. Visit the festival’s official online website for the full list of attractive cinemas across the country. Tickets will go on sale to the public from September 21.
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