To coincide with the Wolf Suschitzky Season at the Garden Cinema in May, the ACF London is pleased to continue with two more in-house screenings.

When a disillusioned middle-aged man, who has lost all appetite for life, checks into an Eastbourne out of season hotel to bring an end to it all, he encounters a carefree, optimistic woman who tries to reason him out of suicide. But does he really encounter her? Or is the fading grandeur of a hotel filled with memories of gone by days just a dream, a symbol, a reflection on inner desolation itself?

Poetically observed and atmospherically photographed with the accuracy of a foreigner's eye, this film represents another facet in Wolfgang Suschitzky's eclectic body of work.

UK 1974, 102 min, directed by Peter Crane, photographed by Wolfgang Suschitzky

Born in 1912 into a Viennese publisher’s family of social democratic conviction, Wolfgang Suschitzky was an eyewitness to the 20th and 21st century with a career spanning well over 70 years. Aside from his rich body of work as a stills photographer, he collaborated on some 200 documentary and fiction films as lighting cameraman and is probably best known for his work on GET CARTER.

This mini-season, a collaboration between the Austrian Cultural Forum London and The Garden Cinema, strives to introduce new audiences to the fascinating life and work of this humanist artist who kept his optimistic curiosity and generosity throughout his long life.

Please note that all CineClub films are suitable for an 18+ audience.