Film screening of Taika Waititi's adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's novel, starring Jenna Ortega, at the Connaught Theatre in Worthing.
Klara and the Sun screens at the Connaught Theatre on Thursday 5 November, starting at 4:50pm. It's a film adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's bestselling novel, written and directed by Taika Waititi, and it runs for 136 minutes.
Waititi takes the lead on both the script and the directing here, and he's put together a cast that's hard to ignore. Jenna Ortega stars as Klara, and she's joined by Amy Adams, Natasha Lyonne and Steve Buscemi. The story follows Klara, an Artificial Friend designed to prevent loneliness, who longs to find the perfect home and forms a bond with Josie, a girl navigating a fraught relationship with her mother and the aftermath of great loss. Through that, Klara tries to save a heartbroken human family.
If you've read the book, you'll recognise the core of it: an artificial being trying to understand the messy, contradictory nature of human love and grief. It's a story that sits somewhere between a quiet character study and a larger question about what it actually means to be human, and seeing how Waititi handles that on screen is a good enough reason to go.
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On the practical side, the film is rated 12A by the BBFC for moderate threat, violence, injury detail and infrequent strong language, so it's something to keep in mind if you're bringing younger ones along. Tickets start from £5.50, with a £0.75 transaction fee on top, and the screening is at the Connaught Theatre on Union Place, BN11 1LG. It kicks off at 4:50pm on Thursday 5 November, and runs for two hours and sixteen minutes.
