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Butley
Chiswick Cinema55 Chiswick High Rd, London
Fri 25 Sept · 19:45 · £14
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Butley is set in Queen Mary’s College, London and focuses on two English instructors, Ben Butley, a middle-aged former T. S. Eliot expert whose life is now in a shambles, and his protégé, Joey, a homosexual. With both Joey and his wife leaving, Butley faces a life alone, fighting back with wit, obscenity and booze.
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55 Chiswick High Rd, London
19:45Fri 25 Sept· £14
About the film: A university lecturer, Ben Butley, shares his office and his flat with a former star pupil, Joey, now also a lecturer. Butley faces both the ultimate breakdown of his marriage and of his intense friendship with Joey. Butley’s painful discoveries are made against a background of petty
20:45Fri 25 Sept
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