- Produced by BFI London Film Festival
- Price £7 weekday matinees, click through to the website for details of other times / venues prices
- Get ready Your cinema-going selves!
- Bring along Your film buff mates
- Surf to BFI London Film Festival - Submarino
- See you at Vue, West End
'Submarino' at the BFI London Film Festival. There are two screenings and we are giving you a chance to win tickets for next Sunday evening (24th October).
Submarino is a powerful story of two brothers' attempts to escape a childhood of neglect.
A chilly, winter-hued Copenhagen is the setting for Thomas Vinterberg's powerful story of two men struggling to escape a childhood marked by neglect and tragedy. Nick and his brother were the children of an alcoholic mother, and in the absence of anything approaching parenting, they formed a tightly-knit bond with each other and their baby brother. But when we meet them as adults they are estranged, each fighting addictions of their own. Nick is full of anger and self-loathing, isolated and living in a grim hostel. Days are spent working out his aggression at the gym, while beer and desultory sex blot out the evenings. His brother is a junkie and a single parent, trying to care for his own young son whilst managing his habit. Their stories are intimately observed and undeniably harrowing - this is an unflinching look at cycles of neglect and addiction handed down through generations. Vinterberg eschews easy judgements, preferring to concentrate on the humanity and vulnerability of these men, and to offer us a final hope of a future in which the cycle might be broken.
Director Thomas Vinterberg
Cast Jakob Cedergren, Peter Plaugborg, Patricia Schumann
Country Denmark
Writer Tobias Lindholm, Thomas Vinterberg, from the novel by Jonas T Bengtsson
Running time 110min
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COMPETITION: 1 x Pair of tickets to Submarino at Vue West End on Sunday 24th October at 9pm
To claim your tickets, send an email to vienna@run-riot.com with the correct answer in the ‘subject’ box. The winner will be randomly selected.
Q: Thomas Vinterberg, the director of Submarino, started the avant-guard filmmaking movement Dogme 95. Dogme is a set of rules to create filmmaking based on the traditional values of story, acting and theme, and excluding the use of elaborate special effects or technology. With which infamous Danish film director did he start the movement?
A: 1.) Lars Von Beer 2.) Lars Von Trier 3.) Lars Von Leer 4.) Lars Von Skiier
