The Importance of Being Elegant

Saturday 29th October

This 2005 film by George Amponsah and Cosima Spender follows the lives of four Sapeurs from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, for whom appearance is everything. Living in the poorest parts of Paris, London and Brussels, they go without food and get into petty crime to buy the designer clothes they crave.

2.15-3.45pm, £5, members £4

Presented by Legacy Films and Photoworks

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