A multi-layered, poignant, bleakly humorous, and wholly engrossing family saga, Matthias Glasner’s Dying is far more entertaining than one might expect from a three-hour film about death. Each member of the Lunies clan is consumed by crisis: aging matriarch Lissy is battling several illnesses, while her husband drifts into dementia. Their son Tom is composing an orchestral piece titled Dying and grappling with creative block. Meanwhile, daughter Ellen takes solace from a toxic relationship in booze and drugs. Glasner combines stark realism with philosophical reflection and humour, painting a deeply human portrait of people resisting, and slowly coming to terms with, the inevitable.

There will be Open Captioned screenings at 13.00 on Monday 28th, and 19.45 on Tuesday 29th.

Notes by David O’Mahony