A Real Pain (15) 21st February

Director: Jesse Eisenberg

Cast: Kieran Culkin, Jesse Eisenberg, Olha Bosova, Will Sharpe, Daniel Oreskes, Liza Sadovy, Kurt Egyiawan, Jennifer Grey

Running Time: 1hr 30mins

Mismatched cousins David and Benji reunite for a tour through Poland to honour their beloved grandmother. The adventure takes a turn when the odd-couple’s old tensions resurface against the backdrop of their family history.

“Jesse Eisenberg’s sauntering Holocaust tour comedy is a masterpiece,”
“This is an effortlessly witty, fluent and astringent comedy with a very serious overcurrent. It is a road movie which is partly about the Holocaust and about America’s third-generation attempt at coming to terms with it.” Peter Bradshaw,
The Guardian

“The film is one of those elegant, odd-couple two-handers, elevated by pithy, resonant writing, which used to be a Hollywood mainstay, and Culkin is fabulous as the weed-smoking Benji.” Tom Shone, Sunday Times. 

“…a film that manages to be ruefully perceptive and laugh-out-loud funny, often at the same time.” Tim Robey, The Telegraph

Friday 21st February 2025, 7.30pm