Sun 8 Jun 2014: "About Time" - ChOC film of the month
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Cert 12, 2 hrs
A Richard Curtis film, smart, sweet, funny and genuinely moving
From the director of 'Love Actually', 'Four Weddings and a Funeral', 'Notting Hill' and 'Bridget Jones' Diary'.
A young man learns from his dad that he can travel in time, and plans to use the power to find a girlfriend. With Bill Nighy, Domhnall Gleeson, Lindsay Duncan, Rachel McAdams and Tom Hollander.
Gleeson plays Tim, the shy son of eccentric, well-off parents (Bill Nighy and Lindsay Duncan). At 21 he leaves the family nest in Cornwall to take up his barrister pupillage in London and, yearning for love, meets Mary (Rachel McAdams), whose under-par frock and non-glam fringe can't deflect his and our appreciation of what a babe she is. Their relationship is, however, made fraught by Tim's secret superpower: he can travel back in time to any point in his own past, and correct his dopey mistakes, though creating new ones along the way.
''About Time' wants us to put aside our cynical reservations and accept an extra pint from the milkman of human kindness. As I stood outside the preview screening watching middle-aged men and women alike wiping away a tear, it was evident that, for all its flaws, the film had indeed delivered.'
(Mark Kermode, 'The Observer')
'A good-natured fantasy romance of such utterable daftness that it's impossible to dislike. … There are some nice gags and some ingenious narrative turns in Curtis's well-carpentered screenplay … You'll need a sweet tooth for this film, but it's heartfelt, with a fragile sort of sincerity.'
(Peter Bradshaw, 'The Guardian')
'You go to [Richard Curtis] for films to nestle in, where you can spend two hours dreaming that you live in a house as elegantly rumpled as the Lake family's Cornish retreat, quilts and all, and spend your evenings skipping through west London in fancy dress, and pass long and lazy summers drinking tea on the beach and playing ping pong in the garage with Bill Nighy.'
(Robbie Collin, 'Daily Telegraph')
Memorial Hall, Charlbury
7.30pm (licensed bar from 6.45pm)
Admission £5, 12-15s £3
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