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The Roses, film starring Olivia Colman & Benedict Cumberbatch

Fri 12 Dec 25
Starts 7.30pm, running time 1 hour 45 mins
Doors open 7pm
Tickets online in advance (reserved seats) or at the door from 7pm. Bar The Drill Hall Lower Church Street, Chepstow NP16 5HJ The Roses, possibly the funniest while also the most savage portrait of a marriage in meltdown, starring Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch probably the two most prestigious English screen actors today. Life seems easy for picture-perfect couple Ivy and Theo: successful careers, a loving marriage, great kids. But beneath the façade of their supposed ideal life, a storm is brewing -- as Theo's career nosedives while Ivy's own ambitions take off, a tinderbox of fierce competition and hidden resentment ignites. The Roses is a reimagining of the 1989 classic film The War of the Roses, based on the novel by Warren Adler. “Colman and Cumberbatch are sublimely well matched. We adore them as a couple almost as much as we enjoy them as the bitterest of foes. This adaptation’s key asset, aside from its two stars, is a lip-smacking, astringent screenplay by Tony McNamara that arms its cast with so many killer lines, it’s a wonder there’s anyone left standing at the end of each scene. The Observer... READ MORE>

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