Gone Girl – So good they’re showing it twice!

THAME CINEMA 4 ALL are anticipating that their screening of GONE GIRL, starring Ben Affleck, is going to be so popular that they are planning on showing the film twice over the weekend, February 7, and February 8.

GONE GIRL – USA 2014, 142 minutes, certificate 18 – Directed by David Fincher, starring Rosamund Pike and Ben Affleck.

GILLIAN Flynn’s best-selling, un-putdownable thriller about a marriage in spectacular meltdown, has been translated to the big screen in this super-glossy, slick, and sensationally successful thriller. (Oscar nominated) Rosamund Pike and Affleck are Amy and Nick, a couple who once smugly prided themselves on having a marriage that is not as pedestrian and dreary as everyone else’s. They are now approaching their fifth wedding anniversary. Finding themselves in unexpected financial difficulty, they have moved from Manhattan to a shiny new lakeside home in Nick’s hometown of Carthage Missouri, where Amy is apparently happily keeping her perfect house, and Nick runs a hipster bar downtown with his sister.But there is little in the way of married bliss behind the perfection of the facade, the grim reality gradually revealed following Amy’s unexplained disappearance.

The story is narrated partially in flashbacks from Amy’s diary: their meeting, their initial happiness, the gradual onset of unease, her mounting suspicions about her husband… as Amy’s narrative builds to its climax, Nick gradually becomes prime suspect in what is presumed to be Amy’s murder, his character and motivations eviscerated on TV and social media. Nick is smarmy and defensive, but is his version of events more or less reliable than Amy’s, whose ice-cool perfection makes her equally impossible to read?  David Fincher – The Social Network, Fight Club – is a master of polished, pacey, sometimes garish, seldom subtle but very seductive Hollywood cinema.

This has all you would expect of him: flare, frenetic pace, and a relish in the very bad behaviour of very nasty characters. View the trailer here.

Thame Players Theatre, Nelson Street, Thame: Doors open 7.30pm – film starts 8pm – Licensed bar

More information and to buy tickets on line: http://thamecinema.org.uk/