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Cinema Paradiso Movie - The Piano - 1st June (THIS Sat)

Cinema Paradiso's film showing on Saturday 1st June is "The Piano"
 
A 1993 Australia Drama, Music, Romance. It combines masterful scripting, cinematography, performances, and musical score into a disturbing, erotic, and ultimately uplifting piece - it won 3 Oscars. 
 
The movie's heroine, wonderfully portrayed by Holly Hunter, is mute (symbolic of the fact that she has no say in her own life), with her daughter (the astonishing Anna Paquin) and her piano as her personal obsessions. Her conscripted husband, coldly played by Sam Neill, is trying to win her heart and her desire in all the wrong ways, while his crude tribal neighbour, sensually played by Harvey Keitel, understands her needs and ultimately captures her physically, intellectually, and romantically.
 
Showing at the C4 Theatrette, Porters Prom, North Mission Beach next to the Information Centre.
Guest and Visitors Welcome $10, doors open at 6.30pm Film starts at 7pm.
Join other Film Club members and friends for an after Film discussion and drinks in the Village....venue decided on the night
 
To enlarge the picture, please click on the poster.
 
Cinema Paradiso The Piano

Mission Arts Theatre Ensemble (MATEs) Script Reading - Sunday May 26th

MATEs Theatre Ensemble

 

Special Wellness Weekend MATEs Play Reading!

 

MATEs (Mission Arts Theatre Ensemble) hosts a monthly Writer's Block Script Reading, offering opportunities for Playwrights/Script Writers to share their plays (and their passion). For Wellness Weekend, come along and provide your feedback to the author for the absurdist comedy 'Let There Be Thistles'.

 

Gold Coin Donation. 2.00 pm - 4.00 pm, Pineapple Cottage Theatre, Mission Arts

Mission Arts Theatre Ensemble (MATEs) Script Reading - May 26th

MATEs Theatre Ensemble

 

Playwrights/Script Writers...do you have a work you'd like to show off? A one-act play, short film, tele-script...you name it, MATE's would love to see it!

 

MATEs (Mission Arts Theatre Ensemble) is hosting a monthly Writer's Block Script Reading, offering opportunities for Playwrights/Script Writers to share their plays (and their passion). You supply the script, they'll supply the actors. Go along, share your creativity, and have some fun!

 

Ring Don on 0417 753 539 to book your place. 2.00 pm - 4.00 pm, Pineapple Cottage Theatre, Mission Arts

Cinema Paradiso Movie - Coup de Chance - 4th May (THIS Saturday evening)

Cinema Paradiso's next film "Coup de Chance" is a 2023 comedy-drama thriller movie, written and directed by Woody Allen. The plot involves a young woman who bumps into an old high school friend who confesses that he has always loved her. They began seeing each other for lunch, which she hides from her possessive businessman husband, and they slowly begin an affair.

 

The Guardian's review: "Fanny (Lou de Laâge), we’re told, was once a high-school bohemian. Now she’s wed to the odious Jean (Melvil Poupaud), a self-made millionaire whose chief passion is the train-set which occupies an entire room of their palatial home. She spends her time in posh auction rooms, attending cocktail receptions or hunting deer from the couple’s bucolic weekend retreat. Now, thanks to her dalliance with Alain (Niels Schneider), Fanny reconnects with a different (and woozily romanticised) side of Paris and starts browsing in second-hand bookshops and strolling through leaf-blown city parks. “My life would be so different if I hadn’t bumped into you on the street,” she declares. Inevitably, though, luck is not on their side. Boiling over with suspicion, Jean has already hired a private detective to trail his wife around town and it is at this point that the melancholic Coup de Chance prepares to jump the points and embark on a different, rather darker track."

 
Showing Saturday 4th May C4 Theatrette, Porters Promenade
Doors Open 6.30pm Film Starts 7pm
Yearly Memberships or Casual Visits $10...pay at the door
 
Cinema Paradiso's AGM is also being held at 6.00 pm: everyone is welcome to attend, however only members can vote.
 
Please consider becoming a member and supporting this fabulous local independent film Club - details here: Cinema Paradiso Movie and AGM Information
 
 Cinema P Coup de Chance