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Saturday
February 4th 7pm, The Screening Room
Eighteen
Richard Bell/Canada/2005/35mm/95min
Ontario Premiere |
Pip is a street kid who's meeting life head-on in the
big city. On his eighteenth birthday he receives his grandfather's
Second World War memoirs on audio cassette, a gift that
awakens the ghost of a long lost world. His grandfather
relates the story of the day he turned eighteen, fleeing
German forces through the woods of France with a dying
comrade hanging on for life. In Pip's own and contemporary
way, he begins to live the parallel life of his grandfather,
both lost in their environments and generations. Along
Pip's path he stumbles into an unlikely alliance with
Clark, a gay street hustler on the make, and Jenny, an
aspiring social worker who tempts Pip with feelings of
love and domesticity. Featuring Thea Gill (Lindsay on
QAF), Alan Cumming (X-men 2, The Anniversary Party), Brendan
Fletcher (Everyone, The Five Senses), Carly Pope (Everyone,
Popular) and Sir Ian McKellen (Gods & Monsters, Richard
II)
Followed by a Q & A session with filmmaker Richard Bell
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Preceded
by:
Bikini Lasse
Persson/Sweden/2004/35mm/7min
Animated delight featuring a certain itsy bitsy….
Today's other Programmes
The Hung and the Restless
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