Silver Screen: The Tyneside’s Film club for the over 60s
Photo: Keith Pattison
Silver Screen is Tyneside Cinema’s daytime film club for the over 60s. Members get tickets for these special shows for just £3.75, including refreshments and an introduction from your host Mike Tait.
Membership is FREE. Sign up today, just call 0845 217 9909 or email the Box Office. Silver Screen members get discounts in the Tyneside Coffee Rooms too (available on day of show only)!
Silver Screen frequently sells out in advance, so we recommend advance booking.
Silver Screen
Dir. Joann Sfar. France & USA 2010. 2hrs 15mins. In French with English subtitles.
Monday 2 August, 12.00pm
Fans of La Vie En Rose and Coco Before Chanel are in for a treat as the life of the immensely talented French singer/songwriter and national hero Serge Gainsbourg is retold in this superb biopic based on director Joann Sfar’s graphic novel.
Anchored by an outstanding central turn from Eric Elmosnino as the legendary artist, the biopic takes us from Gainsbourg’s early life, growing up in 1940’s occupied Paris, through his successful booze and cigarette-fuelled songwriting years in the 1960s, his affairs with many beautiful women, including Brigitte Bardot, to his death in 1991 at the age of 62. Sfar creates a very original and engaging film blending in animation and also creating a grotesque alter-ego for Gainsbourg (played by Pan’s Labyrinth and Hellboy star Doug Jones) that make this biopic all the more engaging and exciting!
