Screening of Sydney Lumet's 1957 courtroom drama '12 Angry Men', starring Henry Fonda, at the Taliesin Arts Centre.
Taliesin Arts Centre is screening 12 Angry Men on Monday 9 November, starting at 7:30pm. It's the 1957 courtroom drama directed by Sydney Lumet and starring Henry Fonda, and the whole thing runs for 96 minutes.
If you haven't seen it, the premise is as tight as the room it's set in. A Puerto Rican youth is on trial for murdering his father, and the twelve jurors retire to decide his fate. Eleven of them vote for conviction, each with their own reasons, but one man holds out, convinced that guilt must be proven beyond reasonable doubt. From there, the film becomes a battle of wills and arguments, with the one holdout slowly picking apart the evidence and the assumptions the others have taken for granted. It's widely cited as a classic of the courtroom drama, and for good reason: it manages to build an enormous amount of tension without ever leaving the jury room.
Seeing it on the big screen is a different experience from watching it at home. The film relies on the feeling of confinement, and that sense of being trapped in the room with these twelve people works best when you're sitting in a cinema. It's a great one to watch with a crowd, too, as the arguments unfold and the mood in the room shifts.
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Tickets are £7.75 for full price, with under 26s and students getting it for £5.00. The screening starts at 7:30pm on Monday 9 November at Taliesin Arts Centre in Swansea, and it runs for 96 minutes.
