Movie Meetup Choice — Friendship /or/ Harvest — Meet from 7:15 pm

A choice of two new movies starting this week:

• Andrew DeYoung's Friendship
• Athina Rachel Tsangari's Harvest

Choose which movie you want to see and buy your own ticket from the box office or online (links below).

We'll meet up in the Watershed café/bar from 7:15 pm, to say hello and chat and later we'll split to see the two films.

The films end at roughly the same time, so afterwards we can stop to compare and share our thoughts and reactions.

ABOUT FRIENDSHIP (8:10 pm, ticket)

"Friendship is Andrew DeYoung's painfully hilarious testament to why men shouldn't have friends starring Tim Robinson and Paul Rudd."
— Watershed Summary

"Craig Waterman works an average white-collar office job and spends his free time watching television in his suburban home. When his wife encourages him to befriend their new neighbour Austin, his life changes. Austin is friendly, open, and effortlessly cool. A friendship forms, but Craig's keenness soon threatens to ruin everything.

"This deliciously surrealist humour spin on the male loneliness epidemic is packed full of laughs yet operates with the emotional tension of a thriller. Robinson's performance is simultaneously hilarious and sympathetic, capturing the very real anxieties and vulnerabilities of forming connections. Friendship is a big treat for fans of Robinson's brilliant cult hit television show I Think You Should Leave, but also the perfect entry point for those new to the world of this absurdist comedy genius."
— BFI Summary

ABOUT HARVEST (8:20 pm, ticket)

"Harvest portrays a village whose traditional way of life is disrupted at a moment of severe economic turmoil. Tsangari brilliantly captures the villagers’ lives and their dedication to the land, and the way the community turns against new arrivals when a series of events befall them. A terrific Caleb Landry Jones leads an impressive cast in this study of modernity and superstition in a time of uncertainty."
— Isabel Moir, BFI Summary

"Harvest is a spellbinding and thrillingly distinctive period piece like no other, telling a folk horror-inflected story about the trauma of modernity and the looming threat of the outsider.
"Set over seven hallucinatory days in an idyllic rural Scottish village, the traditional way of life for its agrarian community is suddenly disrupted when a series of unexpected invaders from the outside world bring about irrevocable – and potentially damaging – change."
— Watershed Summary