15 January 2025 at 21:00
SCREENING | THE FAREWELL
Description :
One night in an almost empty skyscraper in modern London, Adam (Andrew Scott) accidentally meets a mysterious neighbour, Harry (Paul Mescal), and his daily life changes. As their relationship develops, Adam is overwhelmed by memories of the past and finds himself returning to the country town where he grew up and his childhood home, where it seems his parents (Claire Foy and Jamie Bell) still live, just as they did the day they were killed 30 years ago.
Completely consistent with his style and subject matter, Andrew Hague combines gothic romance with a transcendent sense of time to create not only one of the best films of the year, but perhaps the most inventive and moving coming out story we’ve seen, a drama of heartbreaking tenderness and admirable cinematic skill.
Adapting Taichi Yamada’s novel Strangers and filming the family scenes in his real family home in Croydon, after getting permission from the current owners, gradually creating a sense of security and familiarity for the film’s bewildered cast (according to the protagonist’s own statements), Andrew Haig triumphantly wins the bet of crossing a shattered soul with the demons and the purest part of his soul.
It’s very difficult, and yet it happens so harmoniously, engagingly and heartfelt that it’s disarming, like the power of love that it celebrates and magically manages to flow through the veins of the film. With Paul Mescal as his co-star, Andrew Scott brings together all the theatrical qualities and empathy he has shown in front of the camera, creating a leading actor duo that managed to collect 30 awards and 110 nominations at the biggest international festivals of 2024 and to be on the lists of the best films of the year, screened for the first time in Kalamata.
WEDNESDAY 29 JANUARY
ALL OF US STRANGERS
Drama, Romance | 13+ | 2023 | USA | 105′
directed by Andrew Haigh
starring Andrew Scott, Paul Mescal, Carter John Grout
The event will be in the English language with Greek subtitles
Organizers :
The gap of the old remarkable cinema club and the chronic absence of quality cinema in the city is being filled by the New Cinema Club of Kalamata, a non-profit, cultural institution.
The main purpose of the club is to undertake any initiative related to the promotion of cinema and the encouragement of local cinema.
For this purpose, the New Cinema Club of Kalamata plans to organize screenings of films representing all the trends, directors and creators of cinema. Among the immediate plans of the Club, the organization of special events that seek to promote Greek cinema and its dissemination as an art form, such as the organization of a film library, lectures, conferences and workshops, is included.
The New Cinema Club of Kalamata is already a member of the Federation of Cinema Clubs of Greece. It cooperates closely with the Municipality of Kalamata and the public benefit enterprise of the Municipality of Kalamata “Faris”, and at the same time plans and seeks cooperation with other wider movements and cultural institutions.
New Cinema Club of Kalamata
48 P. Kaisaris, 24 100 Kalamata
Press Office – press@filmhouse.gr
Anastasia Liokoura – 6932904072
Vassilis Papaefstathiou – 6944776332
Place :
Amphitheater Theod. Angelopoulos (Work Center)
