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BRITAIN FALLING – Four weeks of dark UK cinema: Threads (1984)📅 Thursday, November 26th | 🕗 8:00 PM | 📍 TicTic, Phnom Penh
We're going there... Threads is undoubtedly the darkest movie we've ever shown at TicTic. It is a movie that knows no bounds. It is a masterpiece, but it's also as sobering and as bleak as movies get. It's a must see, but come prepared for things to get bleak.
Ruth and Jimmy are a young couple in Sheffield with a baby on the way, half-listening to the news about a standoff between the superpowers. Then the bombs fall on the city. The film doesn't stop at the blast. It keeps going for thirteen years: the hospitals, the food running out, the breakdown of everything, and what's left of people at the end.
The BBC made it in 1984, written by Barry Hines, who also wrote Kes, and directed by Mick Jackson. It won four BAFTAs and left a generation of British viewers unable to sleep. It's been called the most harrowing film ever made, and it isn't exaggerating. There are no heroes, no rescue, and no point where the film lets you off. Just a calm narrator telling you exactly how it would go. Content warning: graphic scenes of nuclear war and its aftermath.
"Unsettlingly powerful."
– John J. O'Connor, The New York Times
"Unrelentingly graphic and grim, sobering, and shattering."
– Leonard Maltin
🎟 Free Entry & Popcorn – Arrive early for sofa, bed, or beanbag seating.
📽 IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090163/
📽 Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/film/threads/
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TicTic តិចៗ, Langka Lane (Lane behind Patio Hotel), Boeng Keng Kang Ti Muoy, Chamkarmon, Phnom Penh, Cambodia 120102, Cambodia
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