OPPENHEIMER
Saturday 17th Feb 2024 7.30pm
“NOW I AM BECOME DEATH, THE DESTROYER OF WORLDS”
Cert: 15
2023 181 mins (plus an intermission of 15 mins) 2.35:1
Director: Christopher Nolan
Starring: Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Robert Downey Jr, Matt Damon, Kenneth Branagh and Florence Pugh
During World War II, Lt. Gen. Leslie Groves Jr. appoints physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer to work on the top-secret Manhattan Project.
Oppenheimer and a team of scientists spend years developing and designing the atomic bomb. Their work comes to fruition on July 16, 1945, as they witness the world’s first nuclear explosion, forever changing the course of history.
With an all star cast and now winner of five 2024 Golden Globe Awards including Best Director and Best Screenplay, Oppenheimer is very different from Nolan’s recent films, especially the Sci-Fi ones, but shows that Nolan can master the biopic/drama genre just as well as he can any other.
The film is three hours long but goes through remarkably quickly and enjoyably. Nolan cleverly shows what happened to Oppenheimer after the war as well and as one half of the ‘Barbenheimer’ phenomenon one can easily see how people who had just watched the Barbie movie would also enjoy Oppenheimer.
The film will be shown with an intermission with the bar and ice creams available.