CASINO ROYALE: Mads Mikkelsen Week at FOMO Cinema
Sunday 12. July at 16:00 - 18:24
FOMO Secret Cinema, Tbilisi
There are movie stars, there are character actors, and then there is Mads Mikkelsen. Over three decades he has moved effortlessly between Copenhagen gangsters, priests, teachers, cannibals, Vikings, alcoholics, spies, surgeons and at least one man who cooks human beings for a living.
He has worked with Nicolas Winding Refn, Thomas Vinterberg, Susanne Bier, Anders Thomas Jensen and some of the biggest directors in international cinema, balancing arthouse cinema with global blockbusters.
For one week, FOMO is tracing that journey across eleven films. We'll start in the criminal underworld of 1990s Copenhagen, move through the dark comedies that helped define modern Danish cinema, and finish with the performances that transformed Mikkelsen into one of the defining screen presences of his generation.
Some of these films are masterpieces. Some are cult oddities. Many are both.
Welcome to MADSNESS at FOMO Cinema Tbilisi.
CASINO ROYALE
Martin Campbell | 2006 | United Kingdom / United States | 2h24m | English with English subtitles
By this point in MADSNESS we've had gangster Mads, sad Mads, cannibal Mads, fat Mads, ripped Mads, prestige Mads and drunk Mads. CASINO ROYALE gives us villainous Mads.
When Daniel Craig was announced as the new James Bond, half the internet lost its mind. CASINO ROYALE silenced almost every one of them.
More than that, it achieved something almost nobody thought was possible. It reinvented the world's biggest spy franchise without losing what people loved about it in the first place.
Gone were the invisible cars, the gadgets and the increasingly cartoonish excesses of the later Bond films. In their place came bruises, consequences and a version of Bond that could bleed, fail and fall in love.
The result wasn't simply a successful reboot. It was a cultural event that reset expectations for blockbuster filmmaking and laid the foundations for almost two decades of darker, more grounded franchise storytelling.
Mads Mikkelsen plays Le Chiffre, a terrorist financier with a talent for probability, a habit of bleeding from one eye and an almost supernatural ability to make poker feel genuinely threatening.
Le Chiffre remains one of the great Bond villains because he never feels larger than life. He's intelligent, professional, quietly terrifying and entirely believable.
For many people around the world, this was their first encounter with Mads Mikkelsen. They picked a good place to start.
FOOD AND DRINK POLICY: FOMO Cinema Lounge Bar opens 1 hour before the first screening of the day and closes at 02:00, serving a wide selection of beer, wine, cocktails, and non-alcoholic refreshments including coffee and tea, as well as fresh hot popcorn! Outside food is allowed in the bar but not in the cinema. No alcohol from outside allowed. All guests are invited to arrive early and stay late!
LOCATION: FOMO Secret Cinema, Bazari Orbeliani, Tbilisi. A five minute walk from Liberty Square metro.
HOW TO FIND FOMO: Enter Bazari Orbeliani via Atoneli St above Carrefour and take the stairs on your left to Level 1. Signage on the door. You can also check our Instagram story highlights for a video showing exactly how to find us: https://www.instagram.com/s/aGlnaGxpZ2h0OjE3OTMzMTA2Mjk0MDI5MjM1
FOMO Secret Cinema • Bazari Orbeliani, 0105 Tbilisi, Georgia
