Dir: Tom Tykwer / 2016 / UK, France, Germany, US / 98 min / DCP

Based on a novel by Dave Eggers, A Hologram for the King is an engrossing drama from the director of Run Lola Run. Tom Hanks plays Alan Clay, a businessman sent to Saudi Arabia to close what he hopes will be the deal of a lifetime. Middle-aged and bathed in existential malaise, Alan’s ponderous mood bleeds into his reality. Everything that can go wrong does, leaving him time to reflect in a foreign land that’s steeped in its own growing pains. Resonating style and depth, A Hologram for the King is a striking allegory on the complications of being human in an ever-changing world. Eric LaSalle of the SF Chronicle calls the film “a pleasure from beginning to end.”

SCREENING: Fri 6/17 6:30; Sat 6/18 4:00; Sun 6/19 2:30 & 7:30; Tue 6/21 9:00; Wed 6/22 6:30; Thu 6/23 4:00pm  & 9:0o