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    Empire of Light

    R2022 · Romance · 1h 59m

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  1. Margate, England, 1980. As widespread unemployment and a rising wave of extremism plunge the seaside town and Margaret Thatcher 's Britain into recession, depressed Hilary sticks to her daily routine as the dutiful front-of-house manager at the Empire: a dying, golden-era movie palace.

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  3. Dec 9, 2022 · Set in an English seaside town in the early 1980s, EMPIRE OF LIGHT is a powerful and poignant story about human connection and the magic of cinema, from Academy Award®-winning...

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    The film's synopsis reads: A huge selling point for a film about loving film is the cinematography of master Director of Photography Roger Deakins. Empire of Light is the fifth collaboration between Deakins, who has worked with every major filmmaker from Martin Scorsese to the Coen brothers, and Mendes, following Jarhead (2005), Revolutionary Road ...

    Olivia Colman, who won the Academy Award for Yorgos Lanthimos’ The Favourite(2018), plays the theater’s beaten-down manager, Hilary, who is having an unsatisfying affair with the owner, Mr. Ellis, portrayed by Colin Firth. Hilary’s life changes when a new employee, a ticket-seller named Stephen, played by Micheal Ward, comes into the picture, formi...

    Empire of Lightis scheduled to be released on December 9, 2022. It originally premiered at the Telluride Film Festival on September 3 and has garnered mixed reviews (45% on the Rotten Tomatometer). Still, interest in Colman, Mendes, and the audience’s affection for film may give it some legs at the box office. It will later make its way overseas to...

  4. Empire of Light: Directed by Sam Mendes. With Olivia Colman, Micheal Ward, Colin Firth, Toby Jones. A drama about the power of human connection during turbulent times, set in an English coastal town in the early 1980s.

  5. Dec 9, 2022 · Overview. The duty manager of a seaside cinema, who is struggling with her mental health, forms a relationship with a new employee on the south coast of England in the 1980s.

  6. Empire of Light is an upcoming romance film, written and directed by Sam Mendes. It stars Olivia Colman, Micheal Ward, Tom Brooke, Tanya Moodie, Hannah Onslow, Crystal Clarke, Toby Jones, and Colin Firth.

  7. Jan 8, 2023 · Empire Of Light Review. In a British seaside town during the early 1980s, Hilary (Olivia Colman) works at the fading Empire cinema. When new employee Stephen (Micheal Ward) joins the...

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