An intimate and atmospheric local cinema where you can enjoy the latest and best film releases and NOW on Saturday nights? The Cinema at Gloucester Guildhall ‘MUST Be The Place’ This May.

It might be the start of the crazy summer blockbuster season but for The Cinema at Gloucester Guildhall at Gloucester Guildhall, May marks the equally exciting start of not only a new programme that features the best in foreign and independent film, but also the return of an age old tradition. As The Drifters famously once sung:

# Saturday night at the movies, 
Who cares what picture you see 
when you're huggin' with your baby 
in the last row in the balcony? #

That’s right, fellow cinema lovers. After a three year absence we are proud to bring back film screenings on Saturday nights, with the first 20 tickets to each performance available at the unbelievably good price of just £2.50.





We begin our May programme this week with one of the hot ‘In Competition’ picks of last year’s Cannes Film Festival, This Must Be The Place, the long awaited and much anticipated return of acclaimed Italian director Paolo Sorrentino following the success of the award-winning Il Divo in 2008.

Marking his first English language film, this comedy-drama stars Academy Award winner Sean Penn (Mystic River, Milk) as Cheyenne, a former lead singer of an iconic goth rock band, who at the age of 50 still dresses “Goth” and lives in Dublin off his royalties. Although fabulously rich and living in an extravagant estate with his wife Jane, played by Academy Award winner Frances McDormand (Fargo), Cheyenne still feels apathetic and disconnected from life. Learning that his father is close to death, he decides to travel back home to New York in the hope of being reconciled with him during his final hours, only to arrive too late. However he discovers that his father had a secret obsession: to seek revenge against former SS Officer and ex-Nazi war criminal Aloise Muller who tormented and humiliated him in the concentration camps at Auschwitz. Determined to make things right, Cheyenne decides to track down his father’s nemesis now hiding out in America as a refugee. So begins a life-altering journey across the heartland of America, which as the quest unfolds, transforms into one reconciliation and self-discovery through the people that he encounters. But as his date with destiny arrives and he eventually tracks down Muller, Cheyenne must answer the ultimate question: does he seek redemption...or revenge?

Presented in the ‘Spotlight’ section of this year’s Sundance Film Festival, This Must Be The Place is a gripping examination of a man on the precipice of obsession, effortlessly captured in Penn’s terrific central performance. It may be understated, unlike his previous outspoken roles, yet he is just as stirring and memorable. Equally stunning and impressive (especially for fans of new wave band Talking Heads) is the score composed by founding member and principal songwriter, David Byrne-that and Sorrentino’s direction are worth the admission price alone. All in all, this is a beautiful little film that is consistently quirky, often laugh-out loud funny and sometimes surprisingly poignant.

Don't miss the film critics are calling:

"Funny, charming & stylish...unlike anything Penn's done before....****"

(Andrew Lowry,Total Film)

"****"
(Anton Bitel, Eye For Film)

Check out the trailer (above) as well as this live performance by Talking Heads on Later...With Jools Holland of the song that inspired the film’s title (below):

This Must Be The Place (15) runs from Friday 4^th-Thursday 10^th May on selected dates at 7.45pm including Saturday 5^th May where the first 20 tickets are just £2.50, but once they’re gone...they’re gone.