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High-Rise

Ben Wheatley, 2015, UK, 119 mins, Cert: 15

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Sun 24 April 2016 // 20:30
Mon 25 April 2016 // 20:30

Tickets: £5 / £4

Ben Wheatley’s eagerly anticipated adaptation of J G Ballard’s 1975 novel about the total breakdown of a class hierarchy, set within the confines of a 40-storey brutalist beauty, pulls off the dystopian madness with imaginative style.

The Elysium Tower is the glistening height of modern living, and its residents know their places – strictly from top to bottom. But as the class walls quickly disintegrate, characterised by ever-wilder and violent behaviour and increasingly decadent and hedonistic partying, so too does the fabric of the building itself. The action speeds up and the barriers come down, resulting in a note of classic British surrealism. 

"A multi-level blueprint of the UK’s class politics, exposing the delirious ruins of Thatcher’s utopian enterprise." ★★★★ Little White Lies

"It’s the social-surrealist film of the year" ★★★★ Guardian

Please note that doors open at 8pm, film starts at 8.30pm.