Angela Carter Sunday Brunches

Angela Carter Sunday Brunches

Season

Please note : this season finished in Dec 2016

As part of Festival of Ideas Bristol800 programme and in conjunction with the opening of a new exhibition Strange Worlds: The Vision of Angela Carter at the RWA, we present a season of sophisticated fairytales, twisted imagery and gothic mysticism to mark the 25th anniversary of the death of one of the most distinctive literary voices of the last 100 years.

Angela Carter lived in Bristol from 1960 for nearly a decade, studying at Bristol University where she specialised in medieval literature, which piqued her interest in the gothic themes explored throughout her writing. The recurring themes of feminism, mysticism and sexuality found in her work and her lifelong interest in the farther shores of the imagination - in fantasy, and most specifically in fairytales – is explored in this sumptuous cinematic labyrinth of fantastical films for grown-ups.

From Jean Cocteau’s much loved landmark of cinematic fantasy La Belle et La Bete (Sun 4 Dec) and Matteo Garrone’s outlandish, grotesque and beguiling fantasy Tale of Tales (Sun 11 Dec), to one of cinema’s greatest fairytales - Guillermo del Toro’s modern masterpiece of gothic fantasy Pan’s Labyrinth (Sun 18 Dec). Come and fall under their spell.

Presented in partnership with Bristol Festival of Ideas.

Tickets: £6.50 full / £4.50 concessions and 24 and under. Get £1.00 off meals over £7.00 in the Café/Bar on the same day with your ticket.


Previous screenings in this season

Pan's Labyrinth

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Pan's Labyrinth
Please note: This was screened in Dec 2016
Film

Guillermo del Toro’s vivid fantasy as seen through the eyes of a young girl and set in contrast to the bloody endgame of the Spanish Civil War is a modern masterpiece of gothic horror and one of cinema’s greatest fairytales.

Tale of Tales

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Tale of Tales
Please note: This was screened in Dec 2016
Film

Drawing on the rich and lurid vein of Neapolitan fairy tales, Matteo Garrone’s lavish, eye-popping fantasy thrusts its stellar cast into a wildly baroque world of kings, queens, hags and monsters.

La Belle et La Bête

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La Belle et La Bete
Please note: This was screened in Dec 2016
Film

Jean Cocteau’s sublime adaptation of Mme. Leprince de Beaumont’s fairytale masterpiece—in which the pure love of a beautiful girl melts the heart of a feral but gentle beast— is a much loved landmark of cinematic fantasy.

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