5:00 PM, 13th February, 2027
Reclusive crime author Patricia Highsmith (Helen Mirren) lives in self-imposed exile in Switzerland, refusing to write any further novels. Her quiet solitude is disrupted when Edward (Alden Ehrenreich), an ambitious young editor, travels all the way from New York to persuade her to write one final instalment in her popular Tom Ripley series. Patricia eventually agrees, but only under one condition: Edward must first come up with the perfect murder. As the two strangers collaborate, Edward begins to adopt Patricia’s fiendish perspective and finds that the reality she’s constructing for Ripley is soon indistinguishable from his own.
Anton Corbijn (A Most Wanted Man, The American) directs this taut psychological thriller that quickly escalates into a darkly funny, inventive game of cat-and-mouse. And there are no two opponents best suited than Mirren and Ehrenreich, who are terrific playing opposite each other in this chamber piece based on Joanna Murray-Smith’s play, Switzerland.
7:30 PM, 13th February, 2027
In the year 2026, wealthy industrialist's son Freder (Gustav Fröhlich) lives in luxury amidst a towering futuristic utopia until he discovers a subterranean world where impoverished labourers work to power the city. Inspired by the saintly Maria (Brigitte Helm) and her advocacy for equality and reform, Freder vows to help the workers, sparking a revolutionary chain of events that ultimately threatens the entire metropolis.
Fritz Lang's landmark 1927 sci-fi masterpiece is perhaps the most influential silent film in history, having served as the inspiration for everything from Star Wars to The Matrix. And now, following the recent discovery in Argentina of crucial long-lost footage, Lang's complete dystopian epic can finally be experienced as originally intended when it first premiered 100 years ago. In addition to reinstating the 25 minutes of missing footage, this definitive version of the film has also been painstakingly restored and is accompanied by a new recording of Gottfried Huppetz's original score.