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Published: 22 May 2008

Camden cinema | Pick of the Indies | Heartbeat Detector | Curzon Soho | Prague August 1968 | Bank Holiday fun at The Everyman - French Kiss

NEXT time you have a tough day at work, recall this film, Heartbeat Detector.
It’s the tale of Simon, a psychologist employed by a large chemical company in France. He helps them recruit – it is his broad-brush assessments that get you in, or puts you out.
Throw in weekly we’re-in-this-together type motivational classes he has to take, and you are given a rather grim picture of the state of life in today’s work place.
Then our poor hero has to run the rule over the mental state of the firm’s head honcho – a task that leads to some rather unpleasant discoveries...
Directed by Nicholas Klotz, the film is radical, political, funny and dark.
Heartbeat Detector is showing this week at the Curzon Soho, Shaftesbury Avenue, W1. Certificate 12A. 0871 7033 988.

• MEANWHILE, in the foyer of the Curzon Soho and in the main entrance hall of the Barbican, check out an exhibition called Prague: Wandering Between August 1968 and November 1989.
Different works will be displayed at each venue and the exhibitions show moving photographs of day to day life in Czechoslovakia.
The images of the mass demonstrations of 1969 are juxtaposed with images from the Velvet Revolution 20 years later. You can’t help admire the eye of the photographers – and also their immense bravery.
This is an incredible reminder of the scale of chaos in Europe within recent history.
The exhibitions run until May 30. Barbican Centre, Silk Street, EC2. 020 7638 4141

• IF you fancy some lighthearted Bank Holiday fun, head to the Everyman.
The Hampstead cinema is screening the Meg Ryan and Kevin Kline vehicle French Kiss at midday on Monday – and throwing in free croissants for all those who want a silly piece of feel good film. After a hard weekend, a spell in one of the cinema’s comfy chairs with a glass of wine could be the perfect way to celebrate a day off work.
Everyman cinema: 020 7435 1600
DAN CARRIER

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