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Hunky Dory (15)
Dir: Marc Evans
Cast: Minnie Driver, Aneurin Barnard, Danielle Branch 109 mins, 2011, UK
Please note: this was screened in March 2012
Marc Evans' (My Little Eye, Patagonia) sweet, sincere paean to the pre-punk 1970s is warm-hearted and refreshingly uncynical. It's the start of the sweltering summer of 1976, and the end of term is fast approaching at a Swansea secondary school. Idealistic drama teacher Viv (Minnie Driver) is holding rehearsals for a musical version of The Tempest that both Shakespeare and David Bowie could be proud of - but she faces an uphill struggle as cynical colleagues and hormonal teenagers threaten her production. Featuring a real-life school band (complete with triangles and tambourines - Glee this aint) and stirring versions of songs made famous by Bowie, Nick Drake and ELO among others, Hunky Dory is a fun, rose-tinted piece of nostalgia.
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Free Men
Opens Fri 25 May
Based on true events in Nazi-occupied Paris during 1942, this uplifting drama follows Younes an immigrant (Tahar Rahim) who joins the resistance effort.

