What's On at Watermans Arts Centre this week

By Cesar Medina

21st Mar 2024 | Local News

Come watch the new film, Red Island, at Watermans this weekend (credit: Watermans Art Centre).
Come watch the new film, Red Island, at Watermans this weekend (credit: Watermans Art Centre).

https://www.watermans.org.uk/whats-on/

Watermans is West London's arts centre and is open Wednesday to Sunday. See great films, live shows and exhibitions and discuss it all at the Guru, its unique bar and restaurant serving the best in drink, snacks and Indian dishes. In the cinema, take advantage of Wild Wednesdays – all cinema tickets £7 – all day on Wednesdays.   

Catch the new releases including: 

Wicked Little Letters (15) - Fri 22 - Thu 28 March (excl. Mon & Tue). See website for times.

In a 1920s seaside town, Edith Swan (Olivia Colman) and other residents begin to receive letters full of hilarious profanities, rowdy Irish migrant Rose (Jessie Buckley) is charged with the crime.

Suspecting that something is amiss, the town's women investigate.

Four Daughters (15) - Fri 22 - Thu 28 March (excl. Mon & Tue). See website for times.

The life of Olfa, a Tunisian woman and mother of four daughters, oscillates between light and shadow.

One day, her two eldest daughters disappear. To fill their absence, director Kaouther Ben Hania calls upon professional actors and sets up an extraordinary film mechanism to unveil the story of Olfa and her family. 

Red Island (12A) - Fri 22 - Thu 28 March (excl. Mon & Tue). See website for times. 

At the beginning of the 70s, in Madagascar, a few armed forces and their families live in one of the last French military bases abroad, a relic of the ending French colonial empire.

Thomas, a ten-year-old boy uses his comic book heroine Fantômette to escape the reality around him.

Special Event Cinema:

Kinoteka presents - Kino!: Scarborn (Kos) (15) - Sun 24 March, 1pm. 166mins

Sam Mendes (The Lehman Trilogy) directs Mark Gatiss as John Gielgud and Johnny Flynn as Richard Burton in this fierce and funny new play.

The Evening Standard award-winning best new play was filmed live during a sold-out run at the National Theatre.

Madama Butterfly (12A) - ROH Live Season 2023/2024 - Tue 26 March, 7.15pm. Live Broadcast

Puccini's devastating tragedy about a young geisha who falls in love with an American naval officer.

Moshe Leiser and Patrice Caurier's poignant, painterly production stars Asmik Grigorian as Cio-Cio-San with Joshua Guerrero as Pinkerton. 

Easter Family Cinema: 

Migration (U) - Wed 27 March - Wed 3 April (excl. Sun, Mon & Tue). See website for dates and times.

The Mallard family is in a bit of rut. While dad Mack is content to keep his family safe paddling around their New England pond forever, mom Pam is eager to shake things up and show their kids—teen son Dax and duckling daughter Gwen—the whole wide world.

After a migrating duck family alights on their pond with thrilling tales of far-flung places, Pam persuades Mack to embark on a family trip, via New York City, to tropical Jamaica.

In the gallery see the latest new media exhibition:

Artist, Tendayi Vine, explores the identity of the gutta-percha tree as a material, as a symbol, as an architect of communications but also as a figure of tension and displacement. 

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