The Small Back Room
The Small Back Room
Sunday 3rd December, 2023
Dir: Powell & Pressburger
UK 1949
99 mins
Cert: PG
PLEASE NOTE: We are unfortunately no longer able to show this film with audio description available and closed captions as intended. If you have already booked a ticket and require audio description or closed captions a member of the MAC team will be in touch to offer a refund.
Midlands Arts Centre offers complimentary tickets to companions and carers assisting customers for cinema screenings. Call the MAC box office on 0121 446 3232 to book tickets.
A dark, intimate follow up to The Red Shoes, The Small Back Room reunites David Farrar and Kathleen Byron from Black Narcissus as an alcoholic bomb disposal expert and his long-suffering colleague and lover.
The film perfectly captures the look and mood of postwar London, and was pioneering in its portrayal of a condition yet to be understood as posttraumatic stress disorder. Following the screening the West Midlands Institute of Psychotherapy will host a conversation around some of the issues raised by the film.
Check out our full Powell & Pressburger line-up here.
