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Nightmare Alley (15)
Nightmare Alley (15)
Summerhall Presents
Thu 17 Feb 2022 @ 8:45 pm - 11:15 pm
£8
Unreserved seating. Content: strong violence, injury detail, language
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From Academy Award Winner Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth – Best Director, Shape of the Water – Best Picture). When charismatic, but down-on-his-luck, Stanton Carlisle (Bradley Cooper) endears himself to the clairvoyant Zeena (Toni Collette) and her has-been mentalist husband Pete (David Strathairn) at a traveling carnival, he crafts a golden ticket to success, using this newly acquired knowledge to grift the wealthy elite of 1940s New York society. With the virtuous Molly (Rooney Mara) loyally by his side, Stanton plots to con a dangerous tycoon (Richard Jenkins) with the aid of a mysterious psychiatrist (Cate Blanchett), who might be his most formidable opponent yet.
"an intoxicating noir epic that has cigarette smoke on its breath, blood beneath its fingernails and terrifying blackness in its heart"★★★★½ Metro