Trance posterDanny Boyle is a Brit­ish film dir­ect­or with a quite extraordin­ary track record includ­ing Train­spot­ting, The Beach, 28 Days Later and multi-Academy Award win­ner Slum­dog Mil­lion­aire. His latest film, Trance (reunit­ing him with Train­spot­ting and Shal­low Grave writer John Hodge) opens on Thursday and the Light House Cuba have a spe­cial pre­view screen­ing of it tomor­row night (Tues­day) at 6pm.

The screen­ing will be intro­duced by my good self (self-pro­mot­ing link here) with a brief audio-visu­al sur­vey of Mr. Boyle’s career, hope­fully illu­min­at­ing some of the con­nec­tions among the eclect­ic career choices that he has made since that first fea­ture in 1994.

Tick­ets for the screen­ing include a free drink (wine or OJ) and a very neces­sary debrief in the bar after­wards. Click here to reserve your seat. Read more about the mind-mess­ing Trance here:

Simon (James McA­voy), a fine art auc­tion­eer, teams up with a crim­in­al gang to steal a Goya paint­ing worth mil­lions of dol­lars, but after suf­fer­ing a blow to the head dur­ing the heist he awakens to dis­cov­er he has no memory of where he hid the paint­ing. When phys­ic­al threats and tor­ture fail to pro­duce answers, the gang’s lead­er Frank (Vin­cent Cas­sel) hires hyp­no­ther­ap­ist Eliza­beth Lamb (Ros­ar­io Dawson) to delve into the darkest recesses of Simon’s psyche. As Eliza­beth begins to unravel Simon’s broken sub­con­scious, the lines between truth, sug­ges­tion, and deceit begin to blur.

Mean­while, with the impend­ing clos­ure of the Cap­it­al Times and the loss of my long-stand­ing soap­box, I have star­ted a mail­ing list so that read­ers can still get their weekly fix of my com­pre­hens­ive sur­vey of each week’s cinema releases. Click here to sign up.