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Seaside Special
£7.50 Full price
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£5 Torridge Resident
£10 minestrone Matinee (a seat, a soup + tea/coffee)
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Dir/Writer: Jens Meurer (2023) Stars: Olly Day, Polly Duniam, Natasha Lamb
An affectionate, funny and bittersweet documentary, Seaside Special follows the town of Cromer on the north Norfolk coast as it prepares for its annual end of pier variety show, a burlesque mix of song and dance, standup comedy and slapstick performed twice a day for three months, in the summer of 2019, set against the tumultuous backdrop of clashing views within the community over Brexit.
"Such a joyous film – affectionate, uncynical, good-hearted, full of memorable people – about Englishness and doggedness and sequins and crabs."
India Knight, The Sunday Times
Running time 105 minutes
- ★★★★ “Vivid and richly affectionate" Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
- ★★★★ The Sunday Times
- ★★★★ The Independent
- ★★★★ Filmhounds Magazine