Coming Soon

at The Arts Centre Gold Coast

Carnage

Carnage

80 mins (View Trailer)

Starts 1 March!

Genre: Comedy / Drama
Cast: Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz and John C. Reilly.
Official Website: visit official website


Synopsis:
 
Carnage is a razor sharp, biting comedy centred on parental differences. After Two boys duke it out on a playground, the parents of the "victim" invite the parents of the "bully" over to work out their issues. A polite discussion of children soon escalates into verbal warfare, with all four parents revealing their true colours none of them will escape the carnage.

Rated M

Advance Screenings - A SEPARATION

Advance Screenings - A SEPARATION

123 mins (View Trailer)

Starts 2 March!

ADVANCE SCREENINGS FRI 2/3 - SAT 3/3 - SUN 4/3

Genre: 
Drama
Cast: Peyman Moaadi, Leila Hatami and Sareh Bayat.  
Official Website: visit official website

Synopsis: 
A married couple are faced with a difficult decision, to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimers. 

Persian with English Subtitles. 

Rated PG

A SEPARATION

A SEPARATION

123 mins (View Trailer)

Starts 8 March!

Genre: Drama
Cast: Peyman Moaadi, Leila Hatami and Sareh Bayat.  
Official Website: visit official website

Synopsis: 
Set in contemporary Iran, A Separation is a compelling drama about the dissolution of a marriage. Simin wants to leave Iran with her husband Nader and daughter Termeh. Simin sues for divorce when Nader refuses to leave behind his Alzheimer-suffering father. Her request having failed, Simin returns to her parents' home, but Termeh decides to stay with Nader.

Persian with English Subtitles. 

Rated PG

Advance Screenings - Headhunters

Advance Screenings - Headhunters

98 mins (View Trailer)

Starts 9 March!

ADVANCE SCREENINGS FRI 9/3 - SAT 10/3 - SUN 11/3

Genre: 
Drama /Crime / Thriller
Cast: Aksel Hennie, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Synnøve Macody Lund.
Official Website: visit official website

Synopsis: Roger is a man who seems to have it all: he is Norway's most successful Headhunter, married to the beautiful gallery-owner Diana, owns a magnificent villa - but living larger than he should. To keep up he is stealing art on the side. At a gallery opening, his wife introduces him to Clas Greve. Not only is he the perfect candidate for the CEO position of the GPS company Pathfinder that Roger is currently recruiting for; he is also in possession of a very valuable painting. Roger sees his chance to become financially independent, and starts planning his biggest hit ever. He soon runs into trouble - and it's not financial problems that are threatening to knock him over this time. The headhunt has begun. Headhunters is based on the bestselling book by author Jo Nesbø.

English Subtitles - Norwegian

Rated MA

Headhunters

Headhunters

98 mins (View Trailer)

Starts 15 March!

Genre: Drama /Crime / Thriller
Cast: Aksel Hennie, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau and Synnøve Macody Lund.
Official Website: visit official website

Synopsis:
Roger is a man who seems to have it all: he is Norway's most successful Headhunter, married to the beautiful gallery-owner Diana, owns a magnificent villa - but living larger than he should. To keep up he is stealing art on the side. At a gallery opening, his wife introduces him to Clas Greve. Not only is he the perfect candidate for the CEO position of the GPS company Pathfinder that Roger is currently recruiting for; he is also in possession of a very valuable painting. Roger sees his chance to become financially independent, and starts planning his biggest hit ever. He soon runs into trouble - and it's not financial problems that are threatening to knock him over this time. The headhunt has begun. Headhunters is based on the bestselling book by author Jo Nesbø.

English Subtitles - Norwegian 

Rated MA

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

122 mins (View Trailer)

Starts 22 March!

Genre: Drama / Comedy
Cast: Judi Dench, Bill Nighy, Tom Wilkinson and Maggie Smith.
Official Website: visit official website

Synopsis:
The Exotic Marigold Hotel follows a group of British retirees who decide to "outsource" their retirement to less expensive and seemingly exotic India. Enticed by advertisements for the newly restored Marigold Hotel and bolstered with visions of a life of leisure, they arrive to find the palace a shell of its former self. Though the new environment is less luxurious than imagined, they are forever transformed by their shared experiences, discovering that life and love can begin again when you let go of the past.

Rated PG

A Dangerous Method

A Dangerous Method

99 mins (View Trailer)

Starts 29 March!

Genre: Drama / Biography / Thriller
Cast: Michael Fassbender, Keira Knightley and Viggo Mortensen. 
Official Website: visit official website

Synopsis: 
Seduced by the challenge of an impossible case, the driven Dr. Carl Jung (Michael Fassbender) takes the unbalanced yet beautiful Sabina Spielrein (Keira Knightley) as his patient in A Dangerous Method. Jung's weapon is the method of his master, the renowned Sigmund Freud (Viggo Mortensen). Both men fall under Sabina's spell.

Rated MA

SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN

SALMON FISHING IN THE YEMEN

112 min (View Trailer)

Starts 5 April!

Genre: Comedy / Romance / Drama 
Cast: Ewan McGregor, Emily Blunt, Kristen Scott Thomas and Amr Waked.
Official Website: visit official website

Synopsis: 
From the director of Chocolat and the Oscar-winning screenwriter of Slumdog Millionaire comes the inspirational comedy Salmon Fishing in the Yemen. When Britain's leading fisheries expert (Ewan McGregor) is approached by a consultant (Emily Blunt) to help realize a sheikh's (Amr Waked) vision of bringing the sport of fly-fishing to the desert, he immediately thinks the project is both absurd and unachievable. But when the Prime Minister's overzealous press secretary (Kristin Scott Thomas) latches on to it as a "good will" story, this unlikely team will put it all on the line and embark on an upstream journey of faith and fish to prove the impossible, possible.

Rated M

Footnote

Footnote

103 mins (View Trailer)

Starts 19 April!

Genre: Drama 
Cast: Shlomo Bar-Aba, Lior Ashkenazi and Aliza Rosen.
Official Website: visit official website

Synopsis: 
Footnote is the tale of a great rivalry between a father and son. Eliezer and Uriel Shkolnik are both eccentric professors, who have dedicated their lives to their work in Talmudic Studies. The father, Eliezer, is a stubborn purist who fears the establishment and has never been recognized for his work. While his son, Uriel, is an up-and-coming star in the field, who appears to feed on accolades, endlessly seeking recognition. Then one day, the tables turn. When Eliezer learns that he is to be awarded the Israel Prize, the most valuable honor for scholarship in the country, his vanity and desperate need for validation are exposed. His son Uriel, meanwhile, is thrilled to see his father's achievements finally recognized but, in a darkly funny twist, is forced to choose between the advancement of his own career and his father's. Will he sabotage his father's glory? Footnote is the story of insane academic competition, the dichotomy between admiration and envy for a role model, and the very complicated relationship between a father and son.

*OSCAR NOMINEE: BEST FOREIGN FILM

Rated PG

LE HAVRE

LE HAVRE

93 mins (View Trailer)

Starts 26 April!

Genre: Comedy / Drama
Cast: André Wilms, Blondin Miguel and Jean-Pierre Darroussin. 
Official Website: visit official website

Synopsis: 
In this warmhearted portrait of the French harbor city that gives the film its name, fate throws young African refugee Idrissa (Blondin Miguel) into the path of Marcel Marx (André Wilms), a well-spoken bohemian who works as a shoeshiner. With innate optimism and the unwavering support of his community, Marcel stands up to officials doggedly pursuing the boy for deportation. A political fairy tale that exists somewhere between the reality of contemporary France and the classic cinema of Jean-Pierre Melville and Marcel Carné, Le Havre is a charming, deadpan delight.

FRENCH - English Subtitles

Rated PG

Wish You Were Here

Wish You Were Here

93 mins (View Trailer)

Starts 26 April!

Genre: Drama / Mystery
Cast: Felicity Price, Joel Edgerton, Teresa Palmer and Anthony Starr.
Official Website: visit official website

Synopsis: Four friends lose themselves in the fun of a carefree South East Asian holiday. Only three return home. Who amongst them knows what happened on that fateful night when they were dancing under a full moon in Cambodia? Wish You Were Here is a psychological drama starring Joel Edgerton, Teresa Palmer, Felicity Price and Antony Starr.

Rated M

Bel Ami

Bel Ami

102 mins (View Trailer)

Starts 24 May!

Genre: Drama
Cast: Robert Pattinson, Uma Thurman, Kristin Scott Thomas, Christina Ricci.
Official Website: visit official website

Synopsis: 
Box office sensation Robert Pattinson stars in this adaptation of the classic French novel Bel Ami by Guy de Maupassant, a literary powder-keg of its time - a story full of sexual intrigue, scandal and manipulation. Paris, 1880s. Handsome, smart, charismatic and resourceful, George Duroy (Pattinson), known to his friends as Bel Ami, is offered a job as a journalist on the newspaper La Vie Francaise and soon makes a great success of his new career. But he also comes face to face with the realities of the corrupt Parisian high society to which he aspires: the sleazy colleagues, the wily financiers, and manipulative mistresses. He swiftly learns to become an arch seducer and blackmailer, in a world where love is only a means to an end. He will stop at nothing to move into the high echelons of Paris society. Duroy will seduce, manipulate and charm the most powerful and beautiful.

Rated MA