A Long Way Down (15) & Under The Skin (18)

A Long Way Down (15)

Hogmanay can be the loneliest night of the year; a time for maudlin regrets and suicidal impulses. Disgraced television presenter Martin (Pierce Brosnan) has decided to end it all but finds he’s not alone as single mum Maureen (Toni Collette), teenager Jess (Imogen Poots) and rock star JJ (Breaking Bad’s Aaron Paul) have similar plans. It’s getting crowded on that lofty ledge. If they all decide to sit down and share their problems could that be enough to get them through the darkest moments? Adapted from Nick Hornby’s hilarious and heartbreaking novel, A Long Way Down is brought to the screen by Heartbreaker director Pascal Chaumeil and an all-star cast.

Fri 11 April 6pm
Sat 12 April 8pm
Sun 13 April 5.30pm
Tues 15 April 8.30pm
Wed 16 April 2.30pm & 6pm
Thur 17 April 8.30pm
Dir. Pascal Chaumeil, UK, 2014, 96 mins.
Cast. Pierce Brosnan, Rosamund Pike, Toni Collette, Aaron Paul, Imogen Poots.

Under The Skin (18)

Jonathan Glazer’s audacious film is strikingly original. It offers an unsettling exploration of loneliness and alienation in a desolate Glasgow that feels as remote as a distant planet. Scarlett Johansson is an alien who falls to earth and assumes the form of a seductress, luring her unsuspecting victims to their doom. The men she beguiles cannot quite believe their good fortune and what happens to her besotted victims is truly shocking. What happens to the alien visitor is even more haunting as she starts to gain a dangerous sense of what it means to feel human. A weirdly creepy fusion of gritty social realism and imaginative existential science fiction, Under the Skin is a visionary film that haunts the senses.

Fri 11 April 8.30pm
Sat 12 April 2.30pm & 5.30pm
Sun 13 April 8pm
Tues 15 April 6pm
Wed 16 April 8.30pm
Thur 17 April 6pm

Dir. Jonathan Glazer, UK/US, 2013, 107 mins.

Cast. Scarlett Johansson, Paul Brannigan, Joe Szula, Scott Dymond, Michael Moreland.

Details and tickets: www.plymouthartscentre.org