Queen At Sea

Queen At Sea is coming to Plymouth Arts Cinema for a week-long run starting Friday 16 October, with screenings continuing through to Thursday 22 October. It's a British drama directed by Lance Hammer, and the cast is a big draw: Juliette Binoche, Tom Courtenay, and Anna Calder-Marshall. It runs for 121 minutes, so it's a full-length feature that'll take up most of your evening.

Set here in the UK, the story follows a university professor and her stepfather as they deal with her mother's advanced dementia. As the condition erodes the woman's ability to communicate her inner life, her husband and daughter struggle to act in her best interest, navigating love and the fragile boundaries between care, protection and autonomy. It's the kind of thing that hits close to home for a lot of people—the slow loss of a parent's voice and the difficult decisions that come with it. The makers describe it as an emotionally challenging and sincerely powerful drama, carried by a cast they call astonishing.

With six screenings over the week, you've got a fair bit of choice. It opens on Friday 16 October at 6:00pm, followed by Saturday 17 October at 8:00pm. After a short break, it's back on Tuesday 20 October at 6:00pm, and Wednesday 21 October with two showings: a 2:30pm matinee with descriptive subtitles and an 8:30pm evening screening. The run wraps up on Thursday 22 October at 8:30pm.

Plymouth Arts Cinema is at the Arts University Plymouth on Tavistock Place, PL4 8AT. If you're planning to go, the Wednesday matinee is the one with descriptive subtitles, so keep that in mind when you're picking your slot.