This Thursday 24/5: Chat adolescence and vampires at V&A Museum of Childhood

May 22, 2018 admin

This Thursday is the last in a series of Swedish films about childhood and adolescence at the V&A Museum of Childhood, and also happens to feature vampires! Details below…

http://www.vam.ac.uk/moc/events/watch-talk-think-film-series/

Let the Right One In

(2008, Tomas Alfredson, Cert 15)
Thursday 24th May 2018
V&A Museum of Childhood, Bethnal Green, Cambridge Heath Rd, London E2 9PA
Doors open 18.30, programme begins 19.00.

In Swedish with English subtitles.

£7 per person per film. Concession £5.

***** “This vampiric love story…isolates the loneliness, yearning and compassion of adolescence better than any film I’ve seen for a very long time” The Telegraph

Lonely 12-year-old Oskar is bullied by his classmates. A new friendship develops when Eli, a pale, serious young girl who only comes out at night moves in next door…

Followed by a panel discussion with:

Stacey Abbott, Reader in Film and Television Studies and author of “Undead Apocalypse: Vampires and Zombies in the 21st Century, “ University of Roehampton

Stephen Baker, Association of Child Psychotherapy

Johann Hallström, Film Programmer and Actor.

Robin Basu Roy, Clinical Lecturer in Paediatrics, University of Oxford

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