At The Flix: Us, The White Crow & Met Opera Live: Die Walkure

Us (16)

Starring:  Lupita Nyong'o, Elisabeth Moss, Anna Diop

Director: Jordan Peele

Genre: Horror

Release Date: Fri 22 March

From the team that brought you Get Out, comes this highly anticipated horror. Accompanied by her husband, son and daughter, Adelaide Wilson returns to the beachfront home where she grew up as a child. Haunted by a traumatic experience from the past, Adelaide grows increasingly concerned that something bad is going to happen to her family. Her worst fears soon become a reality when four masked strangers descend upon the house, forcing the Wilsons into a fight for survival. When the masks come off, each stranger takes the appearance of a different family member.

 

The White Crow (15A)

Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Oleg Ivenko, Louis Hofmann

Director: Ralph Fiennes

Genre: Drama

Release Date: Fri 22 March

Inspired by the book, 'Rudolf Nureyev: The Life' by Julie Kavanagh, The White Crow sees young Rudolf Nureyev, played by Oleg Ivenko, become a top ballet dancer in Russia, but a life-changing visit to Paris soon makes him seek asylum in France. The White Crow is written by David Hare and directed by Ralph Fiennes, and starring Oleg Ivenko and Ukrainian dancer Sergei Polunin as his roommate Yuri Soloviev.

 

Met Opera Live: Die Walkure

Starring: Phillipe Jordan, Christine Goerke, Eva-Maria Westbroek

Genre: Event Cinema

Release Date: Live Saturday 30 March

In what is expected to be a Wagnerian event for the ages, soprano Christine Goerke plays Brünnhilde, Wotan’s willful warrior daughter, who loses her immortality in opera’s most famous act of filial defiance. Tenor Stuart Skelton and soprano Eva-Maria Westbroek play the incestuous twins Siegmund and Sieglinde. Greer Grimsley sings Wotan. Philippe Jordan conducts.

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