NAKED: British Film Week at FOMO Cinema Tbilisi
Wednesday 17. June at 20:30 - 22:41
FOMO Secret Cinema, Tbilisi
June 16-21 FOMO is taking a tour through some of the most distinctive films to emerge from the United Kingdom over the last fifty years. Punk manifestos. Social realism. Gangster films. Cult classics. Coming-of-age stories. Music culture. Working-class Britain. Films that helped define entire generations, alongside newer works that show where British cinema is heading today.
NAKED
Mike Leigh | 1993 | United Kingdom | 2h11m | Presented in the original English audio with English subtitles
NAKED contains one of the greatest performances in British cinema.
David Thewlis plays Johnny, a Mancunian drifter who arrives in London and spends the next two hours wandering through the city, arguing with strangers, seducing women, delivering apocalyptic monologues, and generally making life worse for everyone he encounters. He's funny, intelligent, cruel, insightful, manipulative, and completely unhinged in an almost evil-genius kind of way.
I've always thought NAKED feels like Britain waking up with a hangover. The optimism of the 1960s is gone. Punk has burned itself out. The Cold War has pretty much ended and Thatcher's Britain is still standing. What remains is a city full of people searching for connection and finding devastation instead.
Mike Leigh never asks the viewer to like Johnny. In fact, there are long stretches where he's genuinely despicable. Yet Thewlis gives him such intelligence and energy that you can't look away. Every conversation feels unpredictable and you never know whether the next thing he's go to say is profound, ridiculous, or deeply offensive.
The film won Best Director at Cannes and earned Thewlis the festival's Best Actor prize, launching him from relative obscurity into international cinema. More than thirty years later, his performance still feels unmatched. It's one of those rare occasions where an actor and a character become impossible to separate.
I've paired NAKED with JUBILEE because both films feel like dispatches from a country in crisis. Jarman's response is punk rage. Leigh's response is bitter cynicism. All the same, NAKED is one of the defining British films of the 1990s and one of the finest films Mike Leigh ever made. It's uncomfortable, hilarious, exhausting, and brilliant. I guarantee you've never seen anything quite like it.
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
