Utopia SA will be screening the following new releases from Wednesday 20 January 2016:
- 45 Years (drama, 95 mins, in English), at Ciné Utopia from Wed 27 January 2016.
Directed by Andrew Haigh (Weekend; Greek Pete) and starring Tom Courtenay (Doctor Zhivago; King & Country; Billy Liar; Quartet; Night Train to Lisbon; The Golden Compass), Charlotte Rampling (The Eye of the Storm; The Duchess; Night Train to Lisbon; The Invisible Woman), Dolly Wells (Bridget Jones's Diary; Black Mountain Poets).
Synopsis: An engaging, delicate and thoughtful drama featuring a couple about to celebrate their 45th wedding anniversary in 5 days’ time. The arrival of a letter threatens to destroy the happy union. Based on a short story. At the 1015 Edinburgh International Film Festival, the film won the Michael Powell Award for Best British Feature Film, with Charlotte Rampling sharing the Best Performance Award.
- Goosebumps (children's adventure, 103 mins, in English, 6+), at Utopolis-Kirchberg & Utopolis-Belval from Wed 27 January 2016.
Directed by Rob Letterman (Monsters vs. Aliens; Shark Tale; Gulliver's Travels) and starring Jack Black (The School of Rock; High Fidelity; Kung Fu Panda; King Kong; Gulliver's Travels), Dylan Minnette (Prisoners; various tv series), Odeya Rush (We Are What We Are; The Giver).
Synopsis: Upset about moving from a big city to a small town, teenager Zach Cooper (Dylan Minnette) finds a silver lining when he meets the beautiful girl, Hannah (Odeya Rush), living right next door. But every silver lining has a cloud, and Zach's comes when he learns that Hannah has a mysterious dad who is revealed to be R. L. Stine (Jack Black), the author of the bestselling Goosebumps series. It turns out that there is a reason why Stine is so strange... he is a prisoner of his own imagination - the monsters that his books made famous are real, and Stine protects his readers by keeping them locked up in their books. When Zach unintentionally unleashes the monsters from their manuscripts and they begin to terrorize the town, it's suddenly up to Stine, Zach, Hannah, and Zach's friend Champ (Ryan Lee) to get all of them back in the books where they belong.
- The Revenant (drama, 156 mins, in English, 16+), at Utopolis-Kirchberg & Utopolis-Belval from Wed 27 January 2016.
Directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu (Birdman; Babel) and starring Leonardo DiCaprio (Titanic; The Wolf of Wall Street; Inception; The Great Gatsby; The Aviator), Tom Hardy (Star Trek: Nemesis; Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy; Mad Max: Fury Road; Child 44; Locke; The Dark Knight Rises), Will Poulter (The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader; We're the Millers; The Maze Runner; Glassland) and Domhnall Gleeson (Brooklyn; Shadow Dancer; Star Wars: Episode VII - The Force Awakens; Anna Karenina).
Synopsis: Inspired by true events, THE REVENANT captures one man's epic adventure of survival and the extraordinary power of the human spirit. In an expedition of the uncharted American wilderness, legendary explorer Hugh Glass (Leonardo DiCaprio) is brutally attacked by a bear and left for dead by members of his own hunting team. In a quest to survive, Glass endures unimaginable grief as well as the betrayal of his confidant John Fitzgerald (Tom Hardy). Guided by sheer will and the love of his family, Glass must navigate a vicious winter in a relentless pursuit to live and find redemption.
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