Children of Men (2006)
<div><i>Part of <a href="https://www.screeningroomkingston.com/bleak-week/">Bleak Week: Cinema of Despair</a>, a weeklong festival spotlighting some of the greatest films from around the world that explore the darkest sides of humanity.</i></div><div><i><br></i></div><div><b>Special Guest Talk on Thursday June 18 at 6:30pm: </b>Join us on the final night of <i>Bleak Week</i> for a screening of <i>Children of Men (2006) </i>accompanied by a talk & discussion from <a href="https://www.queensu.ca/religion/people/faculty/richard-s-ascough">Dr. Richard Ascough</a>, a professor at Queen University’s School of Religion. Richard has published work on the film and has taught with it for years in his <i>Religion and Film</i> course.</div><div><br></div>Set in 2027, Alfonso Cuarón's imagines a near future in which human fertility has simply ended — no explanation offered, no cure in sight — and society is contracting around that fact into something harder and crueller. Its extended, unbroken battle sequences have become among the most studied in film schools worldwide, and the film has grown in stature with every passing year, its vision of civilizational collapse feeling less like speculation and more like prophecy. Theo Faron, a bureaucrat who has made a kind of peace with hopelessness, is pulled into a desperate mission to protect the only pregnant woman in eighteen years — and the film earns its final note of grace precisely because it has refused, for most of its running time, to look away. Science FictionPT1H49MRated 14A2026-06-18Clive Owen
Clare-Hope Ashitey
Chiwetel Ejiofor
Alfonso Cuarón
Eric Newman
Marc Abraham
Iain Smith
Hilary Shor
Tony Smith
Pablo Casacuberta
Children of Men (2006)"Children of Men (2006)"Showtimes
June 18, 6:30 pm
June 18, 9:30 pm
June 21, 7:10 pm
June 23, 8:40 pm
June 25, 9:30 pm
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