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Dog-friendly screenings return to the Little Theatre cinema
If your little furry beast has been missing the big screen experience, worry not: dog-friendly screenings are back at Bath’s Little Theatre cinema, beginning on Saturday 29 April with The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry.
How do you make a screening dog-friendly? By bringing the lights up slightly, lowering the soundtrack and providing bowls of water by the screen. Each mutt is supplied with his or her own fleece blanket, which can be placed on a seat or used as a rug on the floor – according to canine preference.
You don’t actually have to bring a dog if you don’t want to, but those who do are strictly limited to one pooch per person.
Released this weekend, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry is an apt choice given that it tells the story of an epic walkies. Adapted from Rachel Joyce’s novel, this is another of those ‘uplifting’ feelgood Britflicks that the UK film industry churns out each year. Jim Broadbent stars as an old geezer who learns that a chum is in a hospice and sets out on an epic journey on foot to visit her. And yes, he meets a dog along the way.
There are also local connections in that some scenes were shot in Bath and this is only the second feature to be directed by Bristol University graduate Hettie Macdonald, who made her debut with the well-received 1996 gay romcom Beautiful Thing. She’s worked mainly in theatre and TV since then, notably directing the Hugo Award-winning Blink episode of Doctor Who and, most recently, six episodes of Normal People.
The dog-friendly screening of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry takes place at 10:40am on Saturday 29 April. Go here for tickets.
Main image credit: Little Theatre Cinema
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