Winter Gems: Upcoming Films at The Model

As winter begins to creep in, The Model continues to welcome and warm up its audience with some enthralling world-class Irish and international film choices - beginning this week with the elegant thriller, Barbara.

Starring Nina Hoss, writer-director Christian Petzold’s Barbara is Germany’s submission for the 2013 Best Foreign Language Film Academy Award. The political / romantic drama also earned Petzold silver for Best Director at this year’s Berlin Film Festival. Set in icy Germany in 1980, Barbara a doctor has submitted an application to emigrate to the West. Hers, is an intense and taut life of surveillance.

Highlight of the season goes to Lenny Abrahamson’s new film, the provocative and brilliant, What Richard Did. Released in October 2012, it received an avalanche of positive reviews, the Irish Times giving it 5 stars and memorably calling it, ‘The best Irish film to emerge from Ireland since the turn of the millennium.’ What Richard Did is a slow-burning, startling piece of work. Based on Kevin Power's, Bad Day In Blackrock, a fictionalised story on the assault on Brian Murphy outside the Burlington Hotel 12 years ago, making What Richard Did’ s close to home origins inescapable. A must see, starring Wicklow actor Jack Reynor, a rising star to look out for in the future.

Love / Amour is Michael Haneke’s second Palme d’Or Winner, presents a version of love far removed from cliché romance, it is devastatingly original and unflinching in the way it examines the effect of love on death. Starring French veteran actors, Jean- Louis Trintigant and Ennanuelle Riva.

Cinema Listings

	Barbara Wednesday 28 and Thursday 29 November at 8pm.  Director Christian Petzold, Ger 2012, subtitled DURATION 105 mins. Set in icy Germany in 1980 Barbara a doctor has submitted an application to emigrate to the West, Hers is a life in which the fear of surveillance and made her character extremely taut and intense. ‘It’s the most fruitful screen partnership since the De Niro - Scorsese years.’ Tara Brady, Irish Times. 4 Stars.
	What Richard Did Sunday 02 December at 3pm Wednesday 05 December and Thursday 06 December at 8pm Director Lenny Abrahmson, Ireland 2012, DUARATION 87 mins. What Richard Did is based on Kevin Powers’ novel Bad Day in Blackrock,. 5 Stars- Irish Times. ‘The most important Irish film of the century.’ Tara Brady, Irish Times.
	Love Sunday 09 December at 3pm Sunday 16 December at 3pm Wednesday 12 and Thursday 13 December at 8pm Wednesday 19 and Thursday 20 December at 8pm Director Michael Hankede Aust-Fra-Ger, 2012, subtitled DURATION 127mins. Michael Haneke has won the Cannes Film Festival’s Palme d’Or for a second with this film about love and death. Stars Jean-Louis Trintignant and Emmanuelle Riva as an elderly couple whose relationship undergoes the ultimate test of love. ‘Brilliantly directed with an atypically tender touch by the Austrain director’ NY Times.

 

Advance online bookings are just €7. Tickets, €8/€6. Full programme information is available at www.themodel.ie.

 

 

 

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