Welcome to Oakwood Cinema - the independent community cinema for Oakwood and Roundhay in Leeds!  Oakwood Cinema is a not-for-profit community cinema showing a film each month, with a licensed bar and snacks to make the night an enjoyable social event for all!

THE FILM

Our film for February is Past Lives (cert 12A)

There are echoes of Richard Linklater’s Before Sunrise trilogy in this new American-Korean film by Celine Song. Told partly in flashback, Past Lives is about two childhood friends in Seoul, Na-young and Hae-sung, whose relationship ends when Na-young moves to America, changing her name to Nora and later marrying an American. Years later they reconnect, which evokes a mixture of emotions and the film beautifully develops themes of love, loss, identity and fate. It is a remarkable achievement from a first time director, and the performances by the two leads Greta Lee and Teo Yoo are excellent.

In the Guardian, Peter Bradshaw gave it five stars: “This heart-meltingly romantic and sad movie from Korean-Canadian dramatist and film-maker Celine Song left me wrung out and empty and weirdly euphoric, as if I’d lived through an 18-month affair in the course of an hour and three-quarters. How extraordinary to think that this is Song’s feature debut. It’s delicate, sophisticated and yet also somehow simple, direct… It’s a must-see.”

TICKETS

Tickets are just £5 for everyone.  (We are no longer offering memberships.)

A booking fee is applied to cover the bank processing fee for purchasing online tickets.

The main doors open at 7.00pm.  The film starts at 7.30pm. (Interval drinks are available.)