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Pick of the Indies
THE CURZON Soho and Mayfair are hosting question and answers sessions with the directors of two eagerly awaited films for the new year.
Oscar-winning documentary film maker Kevin Macdonald’s adaptation of the Giles Foden novel The Last King of Scotland is his first feature film.
Known for his work ‘One day In September’, a film about the 1972 Munich Olympic hostage crisis, and the more recent Touching The Void, the mountaineering disaster epic, Macdonald has turned his attentions towards using real events to make a work of fiction. He will be discussing the film with the author Giles Foden.
Set in Uganda during the rule of dictator Idi Amin, film follows the life of the Nicholas Garrigan, a young Scottish doctor (James McAvoy) who agrees to take on the daunting task as working for Amin as his personal doctor – and soon finds the dictator asking his advice on every thing from ailments to architecture, throat infections to foreign policy.
Forrest Whitaker who takes on the role of Amin has won a Golden Globe nomination for best actor for his portrayal of the military dictator. He even studied Swahili for the part, and uses the African dialect in the film.
Miss Potter – the bio-pic of best selling children’s author Beatrix Potter – stars Renee Zellweger in the title role.
Cast and crew will be answering questions after the screening on the making of the film and the legacy Potter has left.
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