CFS Film Screening: Celia (Ann Turner • 1988 • 99 mins)

Join Canterbury Film Society for a genre-melding masterpiece of Australian cinema, Ann Turner’s Celia.

“Celia is a brilliant film. It expertly examines the horrors and confusion, the innocence and joy of being a child whilst being all too aware that becoming a grown-up doesn’t solve all of your problems. Never heavy-handed, Turner’s deft writing and direction cleverly weaves the personal and political with such a light hand and with such skill, always keeping the focus very much from the point of view of young Celia. Beneath it all lies a deeply troubling period of Australian history, the plague of rabbits and subsequent botched handling of that by the government providing a perfect metaphor for those pesky lefties ruffling those 1950s Conservative feathers.” - Starburst Magazine

This is a Film Society Members Only screening - but new members are warmly welcome. Go to www.canterburyfilmsociety.org.nz to see membership options (including 3-film Flexipasses for $40, as well as Half Year and Full Membership). Join and pay online, or bring along cash (eftpos not available) and sign up at the membership table before the film.

The Canterbury Film Society offers weekly screenings of top-quality films – arthouse, classic, cult, documentary, world cinema and more – on the big screen. We screen on Monday night at 7.30pm, doors open 7.00pm with drinks and home-baked food for purchase.

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