20th anniversary screening of Alfonso Cuarón's dystopian thriller at the Planetarium, closing the festival's November programme.
The Planetarium is screening Alfonso Cuarón's Children of Men on Saturday 21 November, from 9:15pm to 11:30pm. It's a 20th anniversary screening, so the film is hitting its two-decade mark just as it comes back to the big screen in Bristol.
If you've never seen it, Children of Men is a dystopian thriller set in a world where humanity's future is under threat because people have stopped being able to have children. It's an Oscar-nominated film, and it's widely considered one of the finest of the century so far. The festival describes it as expertly blending weighty concepts and wry political commentary with gripping, gritty action, and that's a fair summary: it manages to be a thoughtful piece of sci-fi without ever losing its pace.
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The screening marks the film's 20th anniversary and closes the festival's November programme at The Planetarium, which is the festival's home for space and science fiction. It's a late one, running from 9:15pm to 11:30pm, so it's more of a night-out screening than a matinee. If you're into dystopian cinema, it's a good place to see one of the most respected films of the genre on a big screen.
