A HOST of Oscar contenders are on the programme at Southampton's Harbour Lights Picturehouse.
The art house cinema, at Ocean Village, is keeping the Academy Awards buzz going right up until Hollywood’s glitziest night of the year.
To celebrate, the Daily Echo has teamed up with Harbour Lights to give one film fan a membership of the cinema each week during Oscar season.
The lucky winner will be able to watch all the hotly-tipped films for free, including Toni Erdmann, a contender for Best Foreign Language Film.
When Toni Erdmann premiered at this year’s Cannes, it received the highest-ever combined star rating from critics at the film festival. Undoubtedly one of the films of the year, Maren Ade’s tragicomic domestic drama is a very funny examination of the disconnect between estranged family members and the pressures of the corporate world; it is as surprising, oddly touching and amusingly mischievous as its titular character. Snaggle-toothed and bewigged, Toni Erdmann is the bizarre alter ego of Winfried Conradi (Simonischek), a divorced music teacher with a penchant for playing pranks. Concerned that his career-driven daughter Ines (Hüller) has become too serious, Toni starts to randomly turn up and wreak havoc during Ines’s work meetings and social functions. What begins as an attempt at familial reconnection has consequences neither Toni nor the increasingly stressed Ines could have predicted.
A membership entitles the bearer to free film tickets, discounts on all tickets, priority booking for the hottest tickets and ten per cent off food and drinks.
Harbour Lights enjoys free parking and is fully open to film fans, despite the ongoing building work at Ocean Village.
For your chance to win a membership, just answer the following question:
Which Oscar is Toni Erdmann a contender for?
Send your answer and contact details to Lorelei Reddin, Southern Daily Echo, Newspaper House, Test Lane, Redbridge, Southampton, SO16 9JX or email lorelei.reddin@dailyecho.co.uk by Friday, February 10.
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