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Great films coming up in July

Bridport Electric Palace is bringing some great films to the venue in July.

First up is Florence Foster Jenkins (PG) on Saturday 2 July, starring Meryl Streep and Hugh Grant and directed by Stephen Frears. It tells the story of a New York heiress who dreamed of becoming an opera singer despite having a terrible singing voice.

Says Peter Bradshaw in the Guardian: “Stephen Frears’s enjoyable, sentimental biopic gives Streep a role to relish, while Hugh Grant provides a touching foil in a genuine paean to mediocrity.”

On Saturday 9 July, Sing Street (12A)takes us back to 1985 when a Dublin teenager (Ferdia Walsh-Peelo) forms a rock ‘n’ roll band to win the heart of an aspiring model (Lucy Boynton).

Conor, a young dreamer, is listening through his bedroom wall to another of his parents’ bitter rows. They will soon split up, forcing Conor to start at a new school, where his reception is as icy as the winds blowing in off the Irish Sea. Fortunately, though, Duran Duran are on Top of the Pops and Conor has a guitar he can’t yet play.

As with all of John Carney’s films (most notably in his massive 2006 hit Once), the message is clear: where there is music, there is hope. 

Sing Street was Mark Kermode’s film of the week in The Observer: “With its inclusive 12A certificate, Sing Street should strike a chord not only with those ageing 80s nostalgists …but also with tween audiences who have long outgrown their Camp Rock DVDs and are ready for a little more grit amid the glitter. Happysad indeed. I laughed, I cried, I bought the soundtrack album.”

 

The Daughter (15) is being shown on Saturday 16 July. The story concerns two families whose skeletons are hauled out of the closet with the arrival of Christian (Paul Schneider), an on/off the wagon alcoholic returning for the marriage of his father Henry (Geoffrey Rush) to a decades-younger woman.

Christian bumps into old pal Oliver (Ewen Leslie) and spends time with his family, wife Charlotte (Miranda Otto), daughter Hedvig (Odessa Young) and father Walter (Sam Neill), encouraging one of them to spill the beans on a long-buried secret. 

Says The Guardian: The writer-director Simon Stone returns to The Wild Duck for his lush, moody feature debut, reconfiguring Ibsen with sublime production values and a pedigree cast.

All tickets for films are £4 on the door or in advance online via electricpalace.org.uk/films

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