The Whale (15) Borderlines Film Festival

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Aronofsky (Black Swan, The Wrestler) directs Brendan Fraser’s comeback as a writing professor trying to reconnect with his teenage daughter.

In a Zoom writing seminar, Charlie appears as a blacked out square. In effect, he’s a recluse, eating himself into an early grave, and obsessed by a student essay on Moby Dick. His only contact with the outside world is his spiky friend Liz… until two characters arrive on his doorstep: a strange young Christian evangelist, and Charlie’s rage-fuelled daughter Ellie (Stranger Things’ Sadie Sink) whom he abandoned when he fell in love with a man and left his wife.

“…Aronofsky’s adaptation of the stage work by Samuel D. Hunter (who wrote the screenplay) [is] an empathetic, haunting, beautiful, heartbreakingly moving story of a broken man in the throes of addiction who has a huge heart…” Richard Roeper, Chicago Sun-Times

DIRECTOR: Darren Aronofsky
STARRING: Brendan Fraser, Hong Chau, Sadie Sink, Ty Simpkins, Samantha Morton
US, 2022
1 HOUR 57 MINUTES
AUDIO DESCRIPTION AVAILABLE
SUBTITLED SCREENING: THURSDAY 9TH MARCH, 5PM

Please note: All entry to Malvern Cinema is currently through the fire exits located at the front (Grange Road) side of the building. For audience members entering through the rear (Park) doors, entry to the Cinema is via the corridor adjacent to Door 6 of the Forum Theatre. We very much regret that, for reasons of safety, there will be no wheelchair access to Malvern Cinema until further notice.  Because of this we will be substantially increasing the number of film screenings in the Forum Theatre, which remains accessible to wheelchair users.  For more access information please click HERE.