Small Things Like These – Monday Cinema – 4 pm show

Trail & District Arts Council’s MONDAY CINEMA Small Things Like These at The Royal Theatre, 1597 Bay Avenue, Trail on Monday, February 10. TWO SCREENINGS at 4 pm and 7 pm.

Over Christmas in 1985 a devoted father discovers disturbing secrets kept by the local convent and uncovers shocking truths of his own. After this he is forced to confront the complicit silence of a small Irish town controlled by the Catholic Church.
The film looks at Ireland’s Roman Catholic run Magdalene laundries, which operated from the 1820s until 1996. Seen as places to reform “fallen young women” these institutions were responsible for terrible abuse through horrific living and working conditions.

Led by a great performance by Oscar winner Cillian Murphy the film is based on the Booker Prize nominated, best-selling novel of the same name written by Claire Keegan.

“A deliberate film that uses small moments to examine one of the great questions of our time: how good people let bad things happen, and how we might push back against the dark.” – Helen O’Hara, Empire Magazine

“’Small Things Like These’ plays just a little like a gangster film, except the web of power at its center is spun by nuns.” – Alissa Wilkinson, New York Times

Dir: Tim Mielants / Country: USA / Language: English / Duration: 1 hr 39 mins / Featuring: Cillian Murphy, Eileen Walsh, Emily Watson / Genre: Drama / Rating: General

Watch the trailer here https://youtu.be/Nqwn5Y_Y4xs

The Monday Cinema series is part of the Toronto International Film Festival Film Circuit and is presented by Trail and District Arts Council at The Royal Theatre, 1597 Bay Avenue, Trail.

Only 143 tickets are available for this screening. If tickets are available, they will go on sale at the venue when the doors open 30 minutes before the screening.

Tickets $13 at tickets.trail-arts.com or call the Bailey Theatre Box Office at 250-368-9669 Monday to Friday from 12-4 pm. Advance ticket holders’ names will appear on the door attendance list; no need to pick up any physical ticket before hand. If tickets are available, they will go on sale at the venue 30 minutes before the screening for cash only. Doors will open 30 minutes prior to show time.

Films in the Monday Cinema series:

Jan. 13: Goodrich – 4pm and 7pm – Andy Goodrich’s life is upended when his wife enters a rehab program, leaving him on his own with their young kids. So, Goodrich leans on Grace, his daughter from his first marriage, for help.

Jan. 20: In the Summers – 4pm only -Two sisters find their relationships to their loving but volatile father changing over the course of yearly summer visits to his New Mexico home.

Jan. 27: All Stirred Up! (Tous Toqués) – 4pm and 7pm – A French chef looking for fame, tries to help a young girl win a culinary competition amidst the hostility of an entire village who dislike her mother, the local customs officer.

Feb. 3: Drive Back Home – 4pm only – In the winter of 1970, after being caught for public indecency in a local Toronto park a man is bailed out by his cantankerous, conservative brother and must drive the 1000-mile trip back home to New Brunswick with him. Inspired by a true story.

Feb. 10: Small Things Like These – 4pm only – A devoted father discovers disturbing secrets kept by a local convent, forcing him to confront the complicit silence of a small Irish town controlled by the Catholic Church.

No film Feb. 17 for Family Day