Juniper Cinema

For a midweek treat why not come along and enjoy a screening of a classic black and white film in our exclusive gin parlour.

Screenings at 8pm

FREE entry plus FREE popcorn

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July Films

7th JulyBelle de Jour (Daylight beauty) (1967)
Severine (Catherine Deneuve) is a beautiful young woman married to a doctor. She loves her husband dearly, but cannot bring herself to be physically intimate with him. She indulges instead in vivid, erotic fantasies to entertain her desires. Eventually working in a brothel in the afternoons she meets Marcel a young ganster who offers her the thrills but in return becomes too demanding and leads to a dilemma with a dramatic conclusion.Francewas a man’s world, legally and financially, in 1967, but the female characters run the show in this film while the men are frequently portrayed as clueless children.

14th July La Regle de Jeu (The Rules of the Game) (1939)
On the surface, a series of interlinked romantic intrigues taking place at a weekend shooting party in a country chateau, the film is in fact a study of the corruption and decay within French society, the bourgeois on the eve of the outbreak of World War II. Often cited as the greatest film of all time with costumes by Coco Chanel

21st July À bout de soufflé (Breathless) (1960)
Breathless will be shown in cinemas around the country soon to mark its 50th anniversary.Jean-Luc Godard burst onto the film scene in 1960 with this jazzy, free-form, and sexy homage to the American film genres starring Michel (Jean-Paul Belmondo) a young petty criminal who models himself on of Humphrey Bogart but on shooting a policeman his life unravels.Its lack of polish, surplus of attitude, anything-goes crime narrative, and effervescent young starshelped launch the French New Wave and ensured that cinema would never be the same.

28th July Les Quatre Cents Coups (The 400 Blows) (1959)
This film is a landmark in modern cinema, semi-autobiographical, it turned François Truffaut a film critic into one of the world's most distinguished film makers.

12-year-old Antoine Doinel A young Jean-Pierre Léaud who delivers a tremendously deep, sympathetic, and convincing performance, lives in a tiny flat with his mother and stepfather, who are poor and generally inattentive. A ruthlessly domineering teacher makes life at school more unbearable than at home. His only escape from the shackles of everyday life is to bunk off school with his one friend, go to the fairground, or visit the cinema. His problems deepen as frustration, desperation, and loneliness lead to his expulsion from school and subsequent running away from home.