Empire of Light
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YouTube TVThe duty manager of a seaside cinema, who is struggling with her mental health, forms a relationship with a new employee on the south coast of England in the 1980s.
fuboTVYouTube TVThe duty manager of a seaside cinema, who is struggling with her mental health, forms a relationship with a new employee on the south coast of England in the 1980s.
Director Sam Mendes’s best film yet stars Olivia Colman and Micheal Ward as lonely movie theater employees offered a brief chance at something more.After all the annihilation of his war film, 1917, director Sam Mendes has traveled forward in time, to the troubled early 1980s in England, to tell a humble little tale of human connection. His new film, Empire of Light, is the director’s most delicate, a wistful short story about two people seized by circumstance who help one another find their way through life. It’s an achingly lovely film—the best Mendes has yet made.
Empire Of Light Review 2022 Olivia Colman As Hilary.She works at the Empire Cinema as a Duty Manager and drones on in life with no passion or excitement. Another step down in life for her is her secret relationship with the owner of the cinema hall, Donald Ellis. Married and equally dull, Donald uses Hilary as a selfish outlet for his sexual desires.
