A decent cast wrestle with a crummy script in this loose and creaky Hollywood spin on 'Le dîner de Cons', Francis Veber's award-winning French play and film.
Jean Reno as Charlie Matteï
Jean Reno is at his best as Charlie Matteï, a retired mobster who goes on a revenge spree after being left for dead with 22 bullets in his body. A must see!
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Notting Hill Coronet, W11 3LB
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Address
103 Notting Hill Gate
TownLondon
PostcodeW11 3LB
Telephone020 7727 6705
Closest tubeNotting Hill
Websitewww.coronet.org
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Odeon Camden Town, NW1 7AA
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Address
14 Parkway
PostcodeNW1 7AA
Telephone0870 5050 007
Closest tubeCamden Town
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Odeon Panton Street, SW1 Y4DP
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Address
11-18 Panton Street
TownLondon
PostcodeSW1 Y4DP
Telephone0870 5050 007
Closest tubeLeicester Square, Piccadilly Circus
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Vue Shepherds Bush, W12
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Address
Shopping and Leisure Center Shepherds Bush Green
PostcodeW12
Telephone08702406020
Closest tubeShepherds Bush Tube Station
A beautiful film by Iranian director Abbas Kiarostami set in Tuscany for which Binoche rightly won yet another award at this year's Cannes Film Festival.
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Barbican Centre, EC2Y 8DS
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Address
Silk Street
TownLondon
PostcodeEC2Y 8DS
Telephone020 7638 4141
Closest tubeBarbican/Moorgate
Websitewww.barbican.org.uk/
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Clapham Picturehouse, SW4 0AT
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Cineworld Fulham Road, SW10 9QR
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Address
142 Fulham Road
PostcodeSW10 9QR
Telephone0870 907 0711
Closest tubeSouth Kensington
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Gate Cinema, W11 3JZ
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Everyman Hampstead, NW3 6TX
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Address
5 Holly Bush Vale
TownLondon
PostcodeNW3 6TX
Telephone087 00 66 4777
Closest tubeHampstead
Websitewww.everymancinema.com
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Curzon Mayfair Cinema, W1 J7TY
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Address
38 Curzon Street
TownLondon
PostcodeW1 J7TY
Telephone020 7495 0500 / 0871 703 3989
Closest tubeGreen Park and Hyde Park corner
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Greenwich Picturehouse, SE10 8NN
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Address
180 Greenwich High Road
TownLondon
PostcodeSE10 8NN
Telephone0871 704 2059
Closest tubeGreenwich Station
Websitewww.picturehouses.co.uk
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Curzon Richmond, TW9 1TJ
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Address
Water Lane
TownRichmond upon Thames
PostcodeTW9 1TJ
Telephone0871 7033 992
Closest tubeRichmond
Websiterichmondfilmsoc.org.uk/
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Wimbledon Hmvcurzon, SW19 1QB
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Address
23, the Broadway, Wimbledon,
TownLondon
PostcodeSW19 1QB
Closest tubeWimbledon
Websitewww.hmvcurzon.com
The wonderful new animated film by the man who brought us "A Belleville Rendez-vous"
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Everyman Baker Street, W1 M1LA
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Ciné Lumière - Institut Français, SW7 2DT
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Address
17 Queensberry Place
TownLondon
PostcodeSW7 2DT
Telephone020 7073 1350
Closest tubeSouth Kensington
Websitewww.institut-francais.org.uk
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Odeon Covent Garden, WC2 H8AH
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Address
135 Shaftesbury Avenue
PostcodeWC2 H8AH
Telephone0870 5050 007
Closest tubeCovent Gdn/Leicester Square
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Curzon Mayfair Cinema, W1 J7TY
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Address
38 Curzon Street
TownLondon
PostcodeW1 J7TY
Telephone020 7495 0500 / 0871 703 3989
Closest tubeGreen Park and Hyde Park corner
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Everyman Screen on the Green, N1 0NP
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Curzon Soho, W1 D5DY
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Address
93-107 Shaftesbury Avenue
TownLondon
PostcodeW1 D5DY
Telephone020 7734 2255
Closest tubeLeicester Square , Tottenham Court Road
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The Tricycle cinema, NW6 7JR
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Greenwich Picturehouse, SE10 8NN
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Address
180 Greenwich High Road
TownLondon
PostcodeSE10 8NN
Telephone0871 704 2059
Closest tubeGreenwich Station
Websitewww.picturehouses.co.uk
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Richmond Filmhouse, TW9 1TG
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Address
3 Water Lane
TownLondon
PostcodeTW9 1TG
Telephone0208 3320030
Closest tubeRichmond
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Watermans Arts Centre, TW8 0DS
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Address
High Street, Brentford
TownLondon
PostcodeTW8 0DS
Telephone020 8232 1010
Closest tubeSouth Ealing
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Wimbledon Hmvcurzon, SW19 1QB
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Address
23, the Broadway, Wimbledon,
TownLondon
PostcodeSW19 1QB
Closest tubeWimbledon
Websitewww.hmvcurzon.com
Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky is the latest film on the Grande Dame of fashion, but instead of focusing on clothes, it explores the consuming relationship between the fashion icon and the radical composer.
The year is 2005. Two people with two very different background and coming from different places make a journey together to find their children who are studying in London.
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Odeon Panton Street, SW1 Y4DP
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Address
11-18 Panton Street
TownLondon
PostcodeSW1 Y4DP
Telephone0870 5050 007
Closest tubeLeicester Square, Piccadilly Circus
Isabelle Huppert, one of France's best actresses, joins forces with Claire Denis (35 Shots of Rum) one of France's best female directors, to bring us perhaps one of the most remarkable films. A coffee plantation owner who against all odds bravely refuses to leave before the harvest. This is all happening the middle of chaos, advancing militia and gratuitous violence. Meanwhile, her husband (Christophe Lambert) cuts a deal with the local mayor, her layabout son goes crazy and a wounded rebel soldier (Isaach De Bankole) seeks refuge in her house from the resurgent army.
Not to be missed.
Two of French cinema's brightest things team up in this delightful comedy about life, love and break-ups, which earned an astonishing 10 million Euros at the French box office in just 10 days.
Romain Duris (THE BEAT THAT MY HEART SKIPPED) and Vanessa Paradis (GIRL ON THE BRIDGE) play fools for love when an indecent business opportunity sees their paths cross.
Sibling business partners Alex (Duris) and Mélanie (Ferrier) earn a living orchestrating the separation of couples whose spark has fizzled out.
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Odeon Panton Street, SW1 Y4DP
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Address
11-18 Panton Street
TownLondon
PostcodeSW1 Y4DP
Telephone0870 5050 007
Closest tubeLeicester Square, Piccadilly Circus
Mousse and Louis are young, beautiful, rich and in love. But drugs have invaded their lives. One day, they overdose and Louis dies. Mousse survives, but soon learns she's pregnant. Feeling lost, Mousse runs away to a house far from Paris. Several months later, Louis' brother joins her in her refuge.
Sfar's film takes the audience through the various phases of Gainsbourg's career: the childhood in Nazi-occupied Paris; the musical awakening in the 50s; the love-affairs with Brigitte Bardot and Birkin.
Then later comes the fame, the outrageous behaviour, the drunkenness - and finally death by heart-attack in 1991 at the age of 62.
Today, Gainsbourg's grave in Montparnassse cemetery is the most-visited in France, and his house on the Left Bank is still covered with adulatory graffiti.
Andrei Filipov (Alexei Guskov) is a former conductor of the Bolshoi Orchestra, who was stripped of his position in 1980 for refusing to fire his Jewish musicians, as part of Brezhnev's anti-Semitic decrees. A recovered alcoholic, he works a denigrating janitorial job at the Bolshoi while his wife runs a business procuring extras for the grotesquely lavish weddings and funerals of Russian tycoons.
When Andrei intercepts a fax from the Theatre du Chatelet inviting the Bolshoi Orchestra to Paris, he comes up with a plan to redeem his dream.
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Odeon Panton Street, SW1 Y4DP
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Address
11-18 Panton Street
TownLondon
PostcodeSW1 Y4DP
Telephone0870 5050 007
Closest tubeLeicester Square, Piccadilly Circus
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Riverside Studios Cinema, W6 9RL
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Address
Crisp Road
PostcodeW6 9RL
Telephone020 8237 1111
Closest tubeHammersmith
Luchino Visconti's masterpiece, "The Leopard" is based on the novel by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa. Starring Alain Delon. A must-see.
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Curzon Mayfair Cinema, W1 J7TY
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Address
38 Curzon Street
TownLondon
PostcodeW1 J7TY
Telephone020 7495 0500 / 0871 703 3989
Closest tubeGreen Park and Hyde Park corner
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Odeon Panton Street, SW1 Y4DP
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Address
11-18 Panton Street
TownLondon
PostcodeSW1 Y4DP
Telephone0870 5050 007
Closest tubeLeicester Square, Piccadilly Circus
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BFI South Bank, SE1 8XT
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Address
South Bank
TownLondon
PostcodeSE1 8XT
Telephone020 7928 3232
Closest tubeWaterloo
Websitewww.bfi.org.uk/
A young car thief kills a policeman and tries to persuade a girl to hide in Italy with him. A classic, directed by Jean-Luc Godard.
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Rio Cinema, E8 2PB
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Address
107 Kingsland High Street
TownLondon
PostcodeE8 2PB
Telephone020 7241 9410
Closest tubeTRAIN Dalston Kingsland