CONTROVERSIALLY a huge hit in France, next week’s Winchester Film Society screening is the ultimate buddy movie.

The Intouchables partners a paralysed millionaire with a man out on parole for robbery.

The company of each other allows them both to experience a sense of freedom they could not enjoy apart.

Whether this film successfully charts the difficult waters of inter-racial care or is simply a soothing fantasy is an issue that has divided film juries around the world.

See it for yourself at Everyman Cinema in Winchester on Tuesday.

Visit winchesterfilmsociety.co.uk FRESH from her triumph in the Met’s The Enchanted Island, mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, one of the world’s most exciting singers, takes on the virtuosic bel canto role of the doomed Mary, Queen of Scots.

Having scored a major success with his production of Anna Bolena, director David McVicar now turns to the second opera of Donizetti’s Tu dor trilogy, which explores regal characters at fateful moments of their lives. Elza van den Heever sings Elizabeth I, and Maurizio Benini conducts Maria Stuarda.

The Met Opera is beamed to Southampton’s Harbour Lights from New York at 5.55pm tomorrow.

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