The club meets on the second Monday of each month for a post-screening discussion facilitated by Dr Jake Harvey, a forensic psychiatrist, and Jenny Leeburn, a psychoanalytic psychotherapist.
Whilst the discussion will focus on the psychological aspects of the film, and the emotional impact on the viewer, the club is very much open to everyone and all perspectives, views and ideas are most welcome (indeed encouraged). After the film, please get drink and/or snack and we will start the discussion 15mins after the film, usually in the Studio. The discussion will last up to an hour.
*Cinemas of the Mind, part of the Arts Forum of Psychotherapy Sussex, has been running post screening events since 2001. CPD certificates available on request.
The discussion is included in the cinema ticket price.
Mulholland Drive
Monday 14 April, 17:30
Part of our David Lynch Season. Introduced by Depot Chair of Trustees, Robert Senior. Followed by a free Cinema’s of the Mind discussion in our studio.
A dark-haired woman is left amnesiac after a car crash. She wanders the streets of Los Angeles in a daze before taking refuge in an apartment.
There she is discovered by Betty, a wholesome Midwestern blonde who has come to the City of Angels seeking fame as an actress.
Together, the two attempt to solve the mystery of Rita’s true identity. The story is set in a dream-like Los Angeles, spoilt neither by traffic jams nor smog.
‘The movie is a surrealist dreamscape in the form of a Hollywood film noir, and the less sense it makes, the more we can’t stop watching it… This is a movie to surrender yourself to’ – Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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