For our final CineClub of the year we are delighted to be holding a Special Preview of Ulrich Seidl's latest film Rimini, in collaboration with Sovereign Films. The film will be released in select cinemas across the UK from 9th December. For further information, visit www.sovereignfilms.co.uk/rimini

It’s off-season in the Italian coastal town of Rimini, where washed-up crooner Richie Bravo struggles to make ends meet. With his headlining days well behind him, Richie scrounges for no-frills hotel gigs, catering to an ever-dwindling (but fiercely loyal) female fan base, the more lascivious of whom he also charges for sex. Despite mounting financial woes and waning stardom, Richie still thinks he’s god’s gift. That is until the unexpected arrival of his estranged daughter threatens to burst his precarious bubble of self-denial. A blackly comic exercise in unrelenting discomfort, Seidl’s latest is every bit as bleak as one would expect from Austrian cinema’s reigning enfant terrible. But underneath the unpleasantries lies a melancholic, perversely moving lament to a man haunted by the ghosts of his glory days, much like the abandoned streets of a tourist town in the depths of winter.

Austria, France & Germany, 2022, 114min, German & Italian with English subtitles, directed by Ulrich Seidl