CFS Film Screening: Smash Palace

Join Canterbury Film Society for our screening of kiwi classic: Smash Palace (Roger Donaldson • 1982 • 108 mins • NZ • R16).

Al Shaw (Bruno Lawrence) is a race car driver who runs a car wreckers in a rural area near Mount Ruapehu - the Smash Palace. After his wife, Jacqui (Anna Jemison) leaves him, Al becomes increasingly unstable and begins to use his business as a means of exerting control over Jacqui and their daughter. As his behaviour becomes more erratic, the situation spirals out of control.

“Now comes this film, so emotionally wise and observant that we learn from it why people sometimes make the front pages with guns in their hands and try to explain that it’s all because of love.” Roger Ebert.

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.

Let us take you further into film!