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a blonde woman with her hair tied back looks up, a man with brown hair looks at her. They both wear formal clothes

Artist's Choice Screening: Gattaca

Duration: 1h46m
Dates: Tue 31 Mar 2026 18:00

Selected by Jo Longhurst as her Artist's Choice Screening as part of We Contain Multitudes 

The directorial debut of Andrew Niccol (who would go on to write The Truman Show), Gattaca is a much-loved dystopian thriller, with a trio of winning performances from stars Ethan Hawke, Uma Thurman and Jude Law. 

Defying a system obsessed with genetic perfection, Vincent (Ethan Hawke) - a man marked out as an “In-Valid” - assumes the identity of a member of the biological elite in order to travel into space with the Gattaca Aerospace Corporation. However, a week before his mission, Vincent is implicated as a suspect in a murder case. With a relentless investigator in pursuit and the colleague he has fallen in love with beginning to suspect his deception, Vincent's dreams steadily unravel.

While the narrative twists and turns, the film also delves into prescient and complex ideas of eugenics, technology and societal inequity. 

Two men sit in a dark room drinking wine. One man is in a wheelchair
A still from Gattaca featuring Jude Law and Ethan Hawke
a blonde woman with her hair tied back looks up, a man with brown hair looks at her. They both wear formal clothes
Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke in Gattaca
A man in a waistcoat, tie and striped shirt places metallic goggles over another man's eyes
A still from Gattaca
Two men sit in a dark room drinking wine. One man is in a wheelchair
A still from Gattaca featuring Jude Law and Ethan Hawke
a blonde woman with her hair tied back looks up, a man with brown hair looks at her. They both wear formal clothes
Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke in Gattaca
A man in a waistcoat, tie and striped shirt places metallic goggles over another man's eyes
A still from Gattaca
Two men sit in a dark room drinking wine. One man is in a wheelchair
A still from Gattaca featuring Jude Law and Ethan Hawke
a blonde woman with her hair tied back looks up, a man with brown hair looks at her. They both wear formal clothes
Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke in Gattaca
A man in a waistcoat, tie and striped shirt places metallic goggles over another man's eyes
A still from Gattaca
A multicoloured painting hung on a white wall. colours bleed into each other in the painting

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