Monday 23rd May 2011 8pm (15) 105 mins
Dir. Janus Metz / in Danish with English subtitles.
Winner of the 2010 Cannes Critics Weeks prize, Armadillo has been hailed as one of the revelatory war films ever made. Named for a base in Afghanistan's Helmand province, it follows a troop of Danish soldiers serving as part of the international forces fighting against the Taliban. The scenes of combat are suitably terrifying, but the film has a scope beyond its admittedly striking reportage, also delivering a universal portrait of warfare, where young men's seemingly essential need to prove themselves in the adventure of battle comes up against the realities of bloody carnage, moral responsibility and political expedience. This film is showing at Gala Cinema as part of the DLI Museum's exhibition Courageous Restraint: 3 RIFLES in Afghanistan and will be preceded by the screening of some footage from the British Pathé archives relating to earlier interventions by the British Army in Afghanistan and the surrounding region.
Tickets £7.00 (full), £6.25 (concessions), £6.00 (Gala Friends, DLI Museum and Art Gallery Annual Pass Holders, and DLI Museum Friends)
To book tickets, call the Gala Box Office on 0191 332 4041 or visit www.galadurham.co.uk.
Gala Theatre & Cinema, Millennium Place, Durham, DH1 1WA.
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