“I was born when she kissed me. I died when she left me. I lived a few weeks while she loved me.”

On Sunday 17th May, SOMETHING OF THE NIGHT turns inward and bitter; where love becomes suspicion, charm masks cruelty, and the most dangerous places are often the closest to home.

This time we’re screening In a Lonely Place.

A screenwriter with a violent temper becomes the prime suspect in a murder case. As suspicion gathers around him, a new romance offers the possibility of escape, even as doubt begins to poison everything it touches.

Humphrey Bogart gives one of the finest performances of his career as Dixon Steele, charismatic, witty and simmering with menace. Gloria Grahame is brilliant as Laurel Gray, drawn toward him while slowly realising how fragile that attraction may be. Together they create one of cinema’s most complicated and painful love stories.

With Nicholas Ray, noir leaves the alleyways and underworld behind, turning instead toward jealousy, self-destruction and the quiet violence people inflict on those who care for them most.

It’s tender. It’s bitter. It’s deeply romantic. And by the end, it leaves one of noir’s cruellest truths hanging in the air: sometimes love arrives just as everything else is falling apart.

■ Downstairs at The Ill Repute
■ 8pm Start (no late admittance)
■ Free Entry
■ Drinks and snacks available upstairs

Something of the Night runs every other Sunday, exploring noir in all its forms from hardboiled classics to modern journeys into shadow.