Empire of Light
December 8 - 29, 2022
Olivia Colman stars in this tender love story about a troubled woman working at a beautiful seaside cinema in 1980s England, told by Academy Award®-winning director Sam Mendes and captured exquisitely by master cinematographer Roger Deakins.
Set in an English seaside town in the early 1980s, Empire of Light is a powerful and poignant story about human connection and the magic of cinema. Featuring a stellar cast led by Academy Award® winner Olivia Colman (The Favourite, The Lost Daughter), BAFTA winner Micheal Ward (Blue Story, Top Boy) and Academy Award winner Colin Firth (The King’s Speech, A Single Man). It also reunites Mendes with Academy Award winning cinematographer Roger Deakins (1917, Skyfall).
- Director: Sam Mendes
- Principal Cast: Olivia Colman, Micheal Ward, Colin Firth
- Country: United Kingdom, USA
- Year: 2022
- Running Time: 119 min.
- Producer: Pippa Harris, Sam Mendes
- Screenplay: Sam Mendes
- Cinematographers: Roger Deakins
- Editors: Lee Smith
- Music: Trent Reznor, Atticus Ross
- Filmography: American Beauty (1999), Revolutionary Road (2008), Skyfall (2012), 1917 (2019)