DIRECTOR Kim Hopkins will attend Monday’s 6.15pm repeat screening of her documentary Folie a Deux: The Madness Of Two (15) at City Screen, York, for a question-and-answer session.
Already shown at City Screen twice in October, Hopkins’s film is the result of five years of filming at the Grade I listed Grays Court, near York Minster, as mother-of-seven Helen Heraty struggled against bankruptcy and through bitter disputes with neighbours in pursuit of her costly dream to turn the crumbling national monument into England’s finest historic hotel.
“Suddenly the economic climate crashes and free falls. The result is a knuckle-clenching, comical and oh so English, tale of our times,” says Kim.
As with last month’s shows, Monday’s screening has sold out, although tickets are available for the documentary’s Big Scream Club slot, exclusively for parents and carers with babies under one year old, on Wednesday at 11am.
Director Kim Hopkins also will attend a Q & A session at Sunday's 3pm screening of Folie a Deux at Pocklington Arts Centre.
What’s more, a condensed, 80-minute version of Folie a Deux will be shown on BBC4’s Storyville strand on Monday at 10pm.
• CITY Screen’s Sunday Special this weekend is a British Film Institute restoration of The Epic Of Everest (U), the official record of the 1924 attempt made on the Himalayan peak by two of the finest climbers of their generation, George Mallory and Andrew Irvine. The climbers never returned.
Accompanied by a haunting new score, few images in cinema are as epic, or as moving, as the final shots of a blood red sunset over the Himalayas.
Tickets for Sunday’s 3.20pm screening can be booked on 0844 871 3024 or at atgtickets.com/york
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