About this event

We’re going there - Threads is undoubtedly the darkest film TicTic has ever shown. It’s a masterpiece, and also as bleak and sobering as cinema gets. A must-see, but come prepared. Ruth and Jimmy are a young couple in Sheffield with a baby on the way, half-listening to news of a standoff between the superpowers. Then the bombs fall on the city. The film doesn’t stop at the blast - it keeps going for thirteen years, through hospitals, food shortages, the collapse of everything, and whatever’s left of people by the end. The BBC made “Threads” in 1984, written by Barry Hines (who also wrote Kes) and directed by Mick Jackson. It won four BAFTAs and left a generation of British viewers unable to sleep. It’s been called the most harrowing film ever made, and that’s no exaggeration - there are no heroes, no rescue, no point where the film lets you off easy. Just a calm narrator telling you exactly how it would go. Content warning: graphic scenes of nuclear war and its aftermath. John J. O’Connor of The New York Times called it unsettlingly powerful, while Leonard Maltin described it as unrelentingly graphic and grim, sobering and shattering. Thursday, November 26 | 8:00PM TicTic, Phnom Penh Free entry & popcorn - arrive early for sofa, bed, or beanbag seating