Harmans Cross Movie Night, Red Joan

This month’s Film is part of the Purbeck Film Festival — please note the date and price change.

RED JOAN
Saturday 23rd October 2021

A based-on-a-true-story spy thriller, Trevor Nunn’s conventional yet sneakily absorbing “Red Joan” eases into the familiar mold of “The Imitation Game” at once. As it toggles between two separate eras, Nunn’s period piece frames its story by introducing us to the 80-something Joan Stanley (Judi Dench) first. She lives a quiet life in a British suburb and tends to the cookie-cutter demands of her uneventful days in the early 2000s. Except, this simple old woman (whose story is based on the real-life case of Southeast London’s Melita Norwood) doesn’t seem to be all that ordinary—soon enough, the British Secret Service pulls her out of her quiet retirement and arrests her on the grounds of treason. But did she really commit those crimes and give away Britain’s secrets to the Russians as a KGB spy in the 1930s?

Tickets for this Purbeck Film Festival screening are £6 on the door, or £5 for students / U25s

Harmans Cross Village Hall Movie Nights are always very popular, and typically run every 2nd Tuesday of the month.
Doors open at 7.00pm, as does the bar, with the film commencing at 7.30pm.