After 1917, his impressive war film released in 2019, Sam Mendes returns to business with a more intimate drama carried by Olivia Colman and Micheal Ward, seen in particular in Steve McQueen’s Small Ax. In Empire of Light, he declares his strong attachment to the seventh art by bringing to the screen a love story set in the 1980s in a magnificent old cinema on the south coast of England, the Empire, where Hilary, a cinema employee, will fall in love with the newcomer , Stephen, a much younger man than her. , Skyfall or The Rebel Wedding. We also find Colin Firth in the cast.
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