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SENIOR SCREEN

Continuing the offer for the over-60s on Saturdays and Wednesdays with the chance to see matinee showings and have tea and biscuits all for the special price of £4.00. See diary for titles showing.

LOYALTY CARD

Don’t forget about the CTC Cinema Loyalty Card – see 4 films in any one season and get a fifth for free. Pick up a card from Box Office.

FOURTH FRIDAY REPLAYS

Did you miss a recent popular film? Or just fancy seeing something again? Look out for 5 o’clock matinees showing on the fourth Friday of each month. And in case you can’t make that screening, there’s a Friday evening showing too. This season there’s another chance to see Sweeney Todd and The Kite Runner plus a re-release of Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps. But if you have a request for next season just let us know – call John Williams on 01352 701559 or email him at cinema@clwyd-theatr-cymru.co.uk

CINEMA ACCESS FACILITIES

Audio description and soft subtitling are provided where available from the distributors. Screenings with this facility will generally be on Saturday afternoons and Tuesday evenings.

SPECIAL EVENTS – VIVA SPANISH FILM FESTIVAL (VIVA!)

LA ZONA (The Zone)
Director: Rodrigo Pla – Mexico 2007
A taut social thriller that brutally reveals the growing polarisation between the haves and havenots. The Zone is a well guarded estate in Mexico City and when three youths from the slums break into the compound they soon discover that privilege equals power and the inhabitants of The Zone are a law unto themselves. Winner of the FIPRESCI critics prize at Toronto 2007.



LA LEON (The Lion)
Director: Santiago Otheguy – Argentina 2005
El Turu is the violent captain of a waterbus in the watery Parana Delta of Northern Argentina which links isolated communities of traditional reedcutters. One of the workers, Alvaro, is a quiet gay man whose sexuality and love of books make him an outsider. And an inevitable target for El Turu’s hostility. The misty waterways and solitary lives are beautifully evoked through shimmering black & white photography. Winner of a special Teddy Award at Berlin 2007.


LADRONES (Thieves)
Director: Jaime Marques Olarreaga – Spain 2007
Alex has a criminal past but finds work in a hairdressers where his colleagues are so suspicious of him that he is finally pushed into conforming to their prejudices and reverts to type. Honing up his pickpocketing skills to profitable effect, he meets a middle-class shoplifter and decides to take her on as an apprentice. With an outstanding performance from Juan Jose Ballesta, this beautifully crafted film eschews the usual gritty realism for a poetic almost dream-like depiction of marginalised youth.

EL CAMINO DE LOS INGLESES (Summer Rain)
Director: Antonio Banderas – Spain 2006
An adaptation of Antonio Soler’s novel that depicts coming of age in 1970s Malaga. Miguelito is fresh out of hospital and has decided to become a poet. He hooks up with his mates for a relaxed summer in the sun, full of swimming, drinking and hopefully, girls. The colour-drenched, angled and inventive cinematography evokes the poetic intensity of life as Miguelito feels it.


CRONICA DE UNA FUGA (Buenos Aires 1977)
Director: Adrian Caetano – Argentina 2006
A perverse thriller that recounts the true story of four young men "disappeared" in 1977 under Argentina’s military dictatorship. Locked up in the "Sere Mansion" they were tortured for their left wing ideals and after four months of hell managed to escape naked into storm-soaked fields, into the unknown and into their only hope of a future.