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Take Shelter (Jeff Nichols, USA, 2011)

  • The Lord Palmerston 33 Dartmouth Park Hill London, England, NW5 1HU United Kingdom (map)
A hallucinatory thriller anchored by a deeply resonant sense of unease...
— Justin Chang, Variety

Construction worker Curtis LaForche (Michael Shannon) lives in a small Ohio town with his loving wife (Jessica Chastain) and hearing-impaired daughter (Tova Stewart). But when Curtis begins having terrifying dreams about an apocalypse, his obsessive behaviour threatens to destroy his family's happiness... With a powerful central performance from Michael Shannon, Take Shelter is an unforgettable picture of an embattled man slowly losing a war within himself...