Summerland

Screening the week of September 4th!

Alice is a reclusive writer, resigned to a solitary life on the seaside cliffs of Southern England while World War II rages across the channel. When she opens her front door one day to find she’s to adopt a young London evacuee named Frank, she’s resistant. It’s not long, however, before the two realize they have more in common in their pasts than Alice had assumed. Gemma Arterton, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, and Tom Courtenay star in this intensely emotional story of love’s endurance in trying times.

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“A refreshing take on the cozy WWII-era English seaside village drama…Gemma Arterton delivers one of her best performances…surprising and satisfying” (Chicago Tribune)

“What a lovely, hopeful and rather magical movie this is…Summerland provides just the tonic we need in times of turmoil. A tale of love lost and found, told with wit and charm, it maintains an impressive balance between the sly and the sentimental, gently subverting mainstream formulae” (The Guardian)

“Arterton turns in a massively impressive performance as Alice…The film is both gorgeous to look and immaculately played, with stunning, sun-drenched coastal scenery and DP Laurie Rose’s beautiful, telling camerawork…Arterton triumphs again and Swale marks herself as a director to watch. Summerland successfully combines an intelligent feminist fable and a lesbian love story with a slick period tearjerker.” (Empire)