Join us in October for a BFI season of films celebrating cinematic melodrama, where you’ll follow your emotions and get swept away by the big screen experience.
Too Much: Melodrama on Film celebrates the visual excess and dramatic potency of a form of cinema which champions emotional intensity over propriety and ‘good taste’. With roots in the exaggerated performance and expressive staging of the silent era, the melodramatic mode evolved to incorporate a wealth of genres and stories. United by their emotion driven plots, vivid visual language and self-conscious audience manipulation, these films are designed to make you break down in tears, cause a scene, fall in love, feel something.
Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore – Tues 7th Oct, 7pm
Marnie – Wed 8th Oct, 4pm
The English Patient – Wed 8th Oct, 7pm
Rebel Without a Cause – Thurs 9th Oct, 4pm
Dancer in the Dark – Thurs 9th Oct, 7pm
Black Narcissus – Fri 10th Oct, 4pm
Diva – Fri 10th Oct, 7pm
