New season on sale! 💘 TOO MUCH: MELODRAMA ON FILM 💘 This autumn at Broadway, we’re indulging in the dramatic with a season of melodrama on screen - part of the BFI's nationwide celebration - that charts the history of the much-maligned genre of forbidden love, loneliness, heartbreaks and twists of fate, from the classics of the 1940s and ‘50s to the more recent homages – reverent, tacky or both. 🎟️ Explore the season and save your seats at the link in our bio or visit www.broadway.org.uk/toom

🎬 The Moment of Truth (1952) There’s a kind of electricity in French cinema of the early 1950s, and Jean Delannoy’s The Moment of Truth is right at the center of it. You feel a world in transition: a style of filmmaking that’s polished, almost classical, yet charged with an unease that can’t quite be contained. What strikes me is how the film embraces melodrama. Not the cheap variety, but the kind that elevates emotion into something universal. Every gesture, every look is magnified — not just