Tickets
Standard - £6
Conc. - Pay What You Can*
Doors 3.00 PM
Short 3.30 PM
Film 3.40 PM
Welcome to Sci-Fi Sundays YEAR 2 at Deptford Cinema. Join us for a special screening on the last Sunday of the month. Split again into 4 quarterly mini-seasons our 2020 programme will delve into themes of paranoia and invasion, marvel at the mysteries of the mind, journey across the universe and show you that nothing is quite what it seems…
Alongside each screening we’ve organised a little something extra; quizzes, short-films, expert talks discussions and much more.
ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND
dir. Michael Gondry
starring. Jim Carrey, Kate Winslet, Mark Ruffalo, Kirsten Dunst
country. USA
year. 2004
runtime. 108 MINS
rating. 15
When Joel finds out that his ex-girlfriend Clementine has undergone a new scientific procedure to erase all her memories of him and their relationship together, heartbroken, he decides to do the same thing. Things however do not go according to plan.
Eternal Sunshine is the acclaimed second and best-known film of French director Michel Gondry, better known at the time for directing music videos for the likes of Bjork and Daft Punk. Jim Carey gives a standout performance in one of his first serious acting roles; Joel is beleaguered and broken by his experience with Clementine, and the film’s bleak, greyed-out colour palette mirrors his inner, depressed state of mind. Kate Winslet’s impulsive Clementine is a true departure from the buttoned-up period characters typifying her early career and embodies a nervous energy and vitality which contrasts distinctively with that of the introverted Joel to make the film’s central relationship simultaneously perplexing and yet completely convincing.
It is though perhaps unsurprisingly Charlie Kaufman’s distinctive and unusual screenplay that makes the film truly stand out. Combining a compelling narrative with offbeat humour, Eternal Sunshine also explores more profound ideas about love, destiny and the link between memory and identity. The film makes us ask if we would really be better off having our unhappy and distressing experiences purged from our past and what of value we might lose in such a process. Subplots also hint at some of the ways that memory-erasing technologies might be exploited or abused in different kinds of ways.
“Uniquely funny, unpredictably tender and unapologetically twisted romance.”
NEVER HAPPENED
dir. Mark Slutsky
country. Canada
year. 2015
runtime. 8 MINS
Ticket Prices
Deptford Cinema is committed to providing affordable access to cinema and the arts, as such our Concession ticket is Pay What You Can. We are unfortunately technically unable to offer truly custom prices online, as such our online Concession ticket options are £0.00, £1.50, £3.00 and £4.50, however on the door tickets allow you to pay any amount that you can. A suggested price of £4.50 represents an amount that helps support Deptford Cinema put on our award-winning programming and events.
If you are able, you can purchase a Support Ticket, this covers the cost of a £4.50 Concession ticket and will go towards supporting our Pay What You Can scheme, helping to ensure a no barrier to entry for enjoying cinema and the arts.