David Lynch: The Elephant Man

BBFC RatingDavid Lynch: The Elephant Man

Showing: 06 July 2025 , 09 July 2025 until 10 July 2025

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Sun 6 Jul 2025
Wed 9 Jul 2025
Thu 10 Jul 2025

Certificate12A
Year1980
GenreDrama
Director(s)David Lynch
Writer(s)Christopher De Vore, Eric Bergren, David Lynch
LanguageEnglish, French
CountryUSA, UK
Running Time2HR 3MINS
Season QFT Presents David Lynch

With this poignant second feature, David Lynch brought his atmospheric visual and sonic palette to a notorious true story set in Victorian England.

When the London surgeon Frederick Treves (Anthony Hopkins) meets the freak-show performer John Merrick (John Hurt), who has severe skeletal and soft-tissue deformities, he assumes that he must be intellectually disabled as well. As the two men spend more time together, though, Merrick reveals the intelligence, gentle nature, and profound sense of dignity that lie beneath his shocking appearance, and he and Treves develop a friendship.

Shot in gorgeous black and white and boasting a stellar supporting cast that includes Anne Bancroft, John Gielgud, and Wendy Hiller, The Elephant Man was nominated for eight Academy Awards, cementing Lynch’s reputation as one of American cinema’s most visionary talents.

QFT and David Lynch go together like coffee and cherry pie. This summer, in celebration of his life and work, QFT are pulling back the red curtain on Lynch's body of work, from the wild at heart to the weird on top.



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