Thame Cinema – Burn, Burn, Burn

THE first film showing of 2017, at Thame Cinema 4 All, will be BURN BURN BURN, with a cast including Joe Dempsie, of Skins, and Game of Thrones fame.

This UK film carries a 15 certificate and is directed by  Chanya Button, and includes in the cast Laura Carmichael, Chloe Pirrie, Sally Phillips, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Jack Farthing, Alice Lowe, Hannah Arterton and Alison Steadman.

This is a rare chance to see this crowd pleasing British gem. Dan (Jack Farthing) dispatches his good friends Seph (Laura Carmichael) and Alex (Chloe Pirrie) on an arduous road trip around the UK. He’ll even accompany them: not so much backseat driver as wedged into the glove compartment, in tupperware, decreasing in volume as the trip progresses: you see, Dan is dead, prematurely deceased from cancer. Dan has bequeathed his bewildered, emotionally free-falling pair of friends with a video instructing them to scatter his ashes in places dear to his heart.

Their journey brings them into contact with an array of misfits, eccentrics, and plenty of opportunities for reflecting on lives at a turning point, with Dan’s funny, often painfully frank video messages as company and provocation. A crackling, tragi-comic, mordantly funny, life-affirming voyage of self-discovery, with a stellar cast including Laura Carmichael (Lady Edith in Downton Abbey) and a series of brilliant cameos from screen greats including Julian Rhind-Tutt, Alison Steadman, Jane Asher, Nigel Planer, Sally Phillips and even Matthew Kelly!

The producer of the film, Daniel Konrad-Cooper, grew up near Thame and he is coming along to present the film, and to stay for a Q&A after the movie, when he will share his experiences of this film and other anecdotes from an impressive and varied film-making career. “…a sort of millennials’ mashup of Laughter in Paradise and Last Orders” (The Guardian)

Burn, Burn, Burn, is at The Thame Players Theatre, Nelson Street, Thame, on January 7. Doors open at 7.30pm (Licenced Bar)