Save the Cinema
- 2022
- 1h 49min
PUNTUACIÓN EN IMDb
6,5/10
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TU PUNTUACIÓN
Liz Evans vive en Carmarthen South West Wales, donde decidió iniciar una campaña en los años 90 para salvar el Lyric Cinema.Liz Evans vive en Carmarthen South West Wales, donde decidió iniciar una campaña en los años 90 para salvar el Lyric Cinema.Liz Evans vive en Carmarthen South West Wales, donde decidió iniciar una campaña en los años 90 para salvar el Lyric Cinema.
- Dirección
- Guión
- Reparto principal
- Premios
- 3 premios y 1 nominación en total
Dora Davis
- Carol
- (as Dora Davies)
Reseñas destacadas
A bit like Finding Your Feet - a cast of great actors given a rather tedious script. Entirely predictable with two dimensional characters. The film actually starts well with a show from the eighties and moves forward to the actors as adults and parents. That part actually works.
After that it gets a little tedious.
After that it gets a little tedious.
With an excellent central performance of Samantha Morton, Save the Cinema will have you laughing out loud one minute and wiping a tear away a moment later. Morton plays 'Liz the Lyric' beautifully, and although she makes the part her own, it is obvious that Morton and the production team have had access to archive documentary footage with snippets of real life dialogue faithfully and skillfully re-enacted.
A stellar supporting cast (a who's who of Welsh talent) topped by Tom Felton as a town councillor and Johnathon Pryce as her inspirational retired school teacher are swept up in Liz's quest to save the condemned cinema of the title.
The fictional elements woven into the historical facts pluck at the heartstrings, particularly with Pryce's reminiscences of watching Goodnight Mr Chips, which led him to becoming a teacher. The film is a wonderful testament to the efforts of a women and the legions of helpers and children she inspired.
The accompanying documentary Save the Cinema: Behind the Curtain on SKY is a recommended watch, presented by two of Liz's real life sons, Mark and Wynne (of Go Compare infamy!)
A stellar supporting cast (a who's who of Welsh talent) topped by Tom Felton as a town councillor and Johnathon Pryce as her inspirational retired school teacher are swept up in Liz's quest to save the condemned cinema of the title.
The fictional elements woven into the historical facts pluck at the heartstrings, particularly with Pryce's reminiscences of watching Goodnight Mr Chips, which led him to becoming a teacher. The film is a wonderful testament to the efforts of a women and the legions of helpers and children she inspired.
The accompanying documentary Save the Cinema: Behind the Curtain on SKY is a recommended watch, presented by two of Liz's real life sons, Mark and Wynne (of Go Compare infamy!)
A pretty cool true story, but the film itself? Rather poor.
'Save the Cinema' is simply too on the nose for my liking, it's cringey in a fair few bits and even pretentious in others. It does have a good cast, though that aside it struggles to get away from the fact that it feels like a made-for-television Christmas-esque movie - literally so with the plot.
Samantha Morton, Jonathan Pryce and Tom Felton are as solid as you'd expect, though the Welsh accents kept taking me out of it - Pryce was born in Wales admittedly, yet even his accent sounded off... might just be me though. I didn't overly like any of that trio's, or their co-star's tbh, performances though, I just like Morton/Pryce/Felton from others things more than anything.
I wouldn't say this is a bad film, it's just a really lousy one in my opinion. I could see it finding an audience though.
'Save the Cinema' is simply too on the nose for my liking, it's cringey in a fair few bits and even pretentious in others. It does have a good cast, though that aside it struggles to get away from the fact that it feels like a made-for-television Christmas-esque movie - literally so with the plot.
Samantha Morton, Jonathan Pryce and Tom Felton are as solid as you'd expect, though the Welsh accents kept taking me out of it - Pryce was born in Wales admittedly, yet even his accent sounded off... might just be me though. I didn't overly like any of that trio's, or their co-star's tbh, performances though, I just like Morton/Pryce/Felton from others things more than anything.
I wouldn't say this is a bad film, it's just a really lousy one in my opinion. I could see it finding an audience though.
The true story of the Lyric, a much loved and used cinema / theatre in the Welsh town on Carmarthen is destined for demolition to make way for a new supermarket. Local theatre producer and mum Liz Evans (Samantha Morton) decides to stop at nothing to keep the Lyric going.
Sub Ealing type comedy, which, whilst pleasant enough and well lead by Morton, needs more fun characters and indeed laughs. Sweet to be sure, but unremarkable and predictable.
Sub Ealing type comedy, which, whilst pleasant enough and well lead by Morton, needs more fun characters and indeed laughs. Sweet to be sure, but unremarkable and predictable.
A nice gentle film with a very strong cast telling the old story of a lone voice inspiring others to action.
Based on fact and set in Carmarthen it shows the proud inhabitants standing up for something they really believe in.
I enjoyed it very much.
Based on fact and set in Carmarthen it shows the proud inhabitants standing up for something they really believe in.
I enjoyed it very much.
¿Sabías que...?
- CuriosidadesLiz Evans, on whom the film's protagonist is based, is the mother of Wynne Evans, famous for his 'Gio Compario' character on the Go Compare adverts.
- PifiasAs Tom walks up the stairs in the golf club he walks past a champions board with the date 2016 showing. This is impossible as the film is set in the 1990s.
- ConexionesFeatures ¡Qué verde era mi valle! (1941)
- Banda sonoraJesus Christ Superstar
Written by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice
Performed by Cast
Published by Universal/MCA Music Ltd
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Detalles
- Fecha de lanzamiento
- País de origen
- Idioma
- Títulos en diferentes países
- Sinemayı Kurtar
- Localizaciones del rodaje
- Carmarthen, Carmarthenshire, Gales, Reino Unido(Lyric Theatre)
- Empresas productoras
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Taquilla
- Recaudación en todo el mundo
- 78.391 US$
- Duración
- 1h 49min(109 min)
- Color
- Relación de aspecto
- 2.35 : 1
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