Celebrate Pride at the Electric Palace
Pretty Red Dress
An intensely likeable, big-hearted feature spins an exhilarating story out of the unexpected effect of a pretty red dress, with Alexandra Burke belting out glorious Tina Turner hits along the way.
Director: Dionne Edwards
Cast includes: Alexandra Burke, Temilola OlatunBosun, Natey Jones
Annie's Staff Pick
110 Mins / 2022 / UK
South London: Singer Candice (X-Factor singer Alexandra Burke) is hoping to land the role of a lifetime in a big musical. But in her personal life, she’s got problems: her grumpy teenage daughter Kenisha (Temilola Olatunbosun) is in trouble at school, and her partner Travis (theatre actor Natey Jones) is only just out of prison and still stuck at home with an ankle tag.
Hoping to please Candice, Travis buys her a dress for her next audition. But rather than smooth things over, the dress creates more problems, as it inexorably leads Travis to explore his most secret, truest self and rethink how he really wants to move through the world.
Skilfully directed and featuring raw, honest performances from Jones, Burke and newcomer Olatunbosun, Edwards’ film is an intimate, complex and insightful study of Black masculinity and family relationships, a daring part-musical combining fantasy and reality and energetically sound-tracked by glorious Tina Turner hits.
"Natey Jones and Alexandra Burke play a couple tussling with dreams and secret shame in Dionne Edwards’s defiant yet uplifting drama with music at its core" - Mark Kermode, 4 stars, The Guardian
This film is F-Rated. The F-Rating is applied to all films which are directed by women and/or written by women. Find out more about F-Rating.
Celebrate Pride at the Electric Palace:
This film is part of our collection of Pride celebration films screening during August.
You might be interested in our new Out on Tuesday events starting 19 September with Codependent Lesbian Space Alien Seeks Same.
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Pop along before the screening (doors open 30 mins before the film start time) to see our Cinema Cats art exhibition, on display as part of Coastal Currents 2023 during September 2023.
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