Capital Celluloid 2018 - Day 274: Thu Oct 11

Silence is Golden (Clair, 1947): BFI Southbank, NFT3, 6pm


62nd LONDON FILM FESTIVAL (10th-21st October 2018) DAY 2

Every day (from October 10th to October 21st) I will be selecting the London Film Festival choices you have a chance to get tickets for and the movies you are unlikely to see in London very soon unless you go to see them at the Festival. Here is the LFF's main website for the general information you need. Don't worry if some of the recommended films are sold out by the time you read this as there are always some tickets on offer which go on sale 30 minutes before each screening. Here is all the information you need about the best way to get tickets.

Silence is Golden also screens at Cine Lumiere on October 14th. Full details here.


LFF review:
Set in a meticulously recreated Paris of 1906, Silence is Golden stars Maurice Chevalier (superb) as silent-movie director Émile, who teaches the art of seduction to his timid assistant, unaware the lad’s honing his skills on a girl to whom Émile has taken an unfortunate shine. Both this problematic triangle and the early filmmaking milieu make for much affectionate humour, but the film, ironic yet serious, also excels in its wise depiction both of the practised deceits of romantic pursuit and of the transient niceties of life.

Geoff Andrew

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