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Plymouth Arts Cinema Fundraiser: Brie(f) Encounter (PG)
Tavistock Place
Plymouth
Devon
PL4 8AT
Opening Times
| Season (5 Dec 2025) | ||
|---|---|---|
| Day | Times | |
| Friday | 18:00 | |
Prices
Full Price £14.50
Over 60 £13.25
25 & Under, Students, AUP Staff, Budget (unwaged/ low income) £9.50
Online bookings: add £1.50 booking fee per transaction. This fee helps to pay for maintaining and operating the website and booking system (this fee is waived for Members).
Where applicable please produce proof of eligibility when collecting a ticket.
About us
Friday 5 December, 6pm
Dir. David Lean, UK, 1945, 87 mins. Cast. Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway, Joyce Carey
If you missed our last (sold out) fundraiser, cheese-tasting night, you are in luck! We are doing it again and this time with the beautifully restored Brief Encounter - part of the BFI's melodrama season, Too Much.
This is a special event, raising funds for Plymouth Arts Cinema's new projector.
Each ticket includes a £5 donation to Plymouth Arts Cinema.
The event will start in the cinema from 6pm, with a 5-10 mins talk by Matthew Luke Onuki and cheese tasting, followed by the film. There will be more cheese tasting in the bar area after the screening.
The Bar and Box Office will be open from 5pm, we recommend arriving early for drinks and a chance to take part in our fundraising raffle.
Matthew Onuki Luke has over eight years' experience in the artisan cheese industry. He has worked in some of the top cheesemongers in London, supplying the finest cheeses from the UK and Europe and advising Michelin-starred restaurants on all their cheese needs. Having recently relocated to Plymouth, he now works for the Academy of Cheese, providing cheese education for all.
About the film, Brief Encounter (PG)
Dir. David Lean, UK, 1945, 87 mins. Cast. Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway, Joyce Carey.
A chance meeting between two married people sparks an impossible chemistry and tragic emotional entanglement, in a film that is rich in pathos and masterfully crafted.
Trapped in a suburban marriage, brittle housewife Laura struggles with her passion for dashing doctor Alec. The film quivers with pent-up emotion in a way that must have been even more potent on its release in 1945, just months after the end of World War II, than it is today.
'Nothing lasts really, neither happiness nor despair'. Though spoken in the film, the same cannot be said of David Lean and Noël Coward's endlessly moving tale of two people who meet too late to share a life together. It's a masterclass in stiff-upper-lip repression, undercut by Johnson's stridently emotional voiceover.
Too Much: Melodrama on film is a UK-wide season, supported by BFI National Lottery funding, celebrating the vivid visual language, heightened dramatics and emotional pathos at the heart of film melodrama.
