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Movie Lovers
Immerse your mind in film as an art form, films of political or social merit and provoke discussion through challenge.
Movie Lovers films are showcased every month at the Paramount. Commencing in February and running through until December. Tickets are $13.50 for all in attendance.
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The World at Arm's Length |
| 24th, 25th and 28th July 2019 (Not Yet Rated) 112 mins Cast: Sven, Almuth and Assistants Genre: Documentary Sven has a dream. He has always wanted to walk the Camino de Santiago - the Way of St. James!
However, this seems almost impossible, because Sven has Usher Syndrome, a disease in which one slowly loses their hearing and vision. He is hard of hearing and has been completely blind since 2010. He communicates verbally with a special hearing aid, but this does not distinguish sounds - they flow unfiltered to him and so it is only helpful if Sven's environment is absolutely silent. Sven mainly communicates via tactile gestures with his hands. With this approach, you basically use your hands to form words and letters. He is always dependent on the help of his specially trained assistants. Sven has to trust his assistant completely, because although he is their "boss", he cannot assess his own situation. They are his eyes and his ears. They guide him, describe his surroundings and translate every communication with the outside world for him.
When one assistant, Almuth, learns about Sven's dream to tour the Way of St. James, she offers to accompany him on the 800-kilometre pilgrimage. Sven can hardly believe it. He immediately starts preparing for the journey of his life. For two years, he and Almuth set the stage for the trip. Seven assistants are chosen to take care of him in turns. He has already worked with some of the women, but hardly knows the rest of his crew.
April comes and the team finally embarks on the journey. However, after a few days in strange surroundings, Sven begins to behave aggressively and the general mood around the tour darkens. Filmmaker Susanne Bohlmann accompanies the group for six weeks through Spain and documents the frustrating fights between Sven and his minders. They want to help, but Sven attacks and pushes them back. His disability conspires with dark memories from the past and this only compounds the gravity of the situation.
Sven's physical condition is deteriorating. His knees can no longer withstand the unfamiliar terrain. He has to go to the hospital and is unable to walk for several days. He feels more and more imprisoned and isolated. The Way of St. James soon fades into an unfulfilled dream and every glimmer of hope starts to fade.
Eventually, Sven's assistants give up and decide to go home in defeat. ...> Read More 
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Claire Darling |
| 7th, 8th and 11th August 2019 (Not Yet Rated) 120 mins Cast: Catherine Deneuve, Chiara Mastroianni and Alice Taglioni Genre: Drama On the first day of summer, reclusive millionaire Claire (Catherine Deneuve) lays all of her worldly objects out on the front of her mansion, impulsively determined to sell everything.
As a horde of curious bystanders and opportunistic neighbours fight over the ridiculously under priced antiques, each object stirs vivid memories for Claire of her flamboyant life.
...But soon, her long-estranged daughter Marie (Chiara Mastroianni) arrives determined to stop these proceedings by any means. > Read More
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Happy as Lazzaro |
| 28th, 29th August and 1st September 2019 (M) 120 mins Cast: Adriano Tardiolo, Agnese Graziani and Alba Rohrwacher Genre: Drama,Fantasy On an estate called Inviolata, isolated since 1977, 54 farmhands work on a tobacco farm in a sharecropping arrangement, where they are constantly in debt and thus unpaid. The farm is run by the notorious Alfonsina de Luna, "Queen of Cigarettes". Lazzaro is a worker on the farm who dutifully follows every command given to him by the marquis and the heads of the estate. Tancredi is the marquis, who befriends Lazzaro. Becoming disillusioned with the cycle of exploitation on the estate, Tancredi decides to defy Alfonsina, his mother, by faking his own kidnapping. Tancredi and Lazzaro set out in the wilderness and ditches, where they write a false ransom note with Lazzaro posing as the kidnapper. They imitate a wolf's howl to make contact with a wolf roaming the countryside; Tancredi also warmly suggests they could be half-brothers, since his father was a womanizer. Lazzaro takes the idea of their brotherhood seriously.
The police are called to the estate to search for the missing marquis; they are astonished by what they see, saying sharecropping has long been illegal, and the workers should be earning wages, and that the children should have mandatory education. The police evacuate Inviolata, and Alfonsina is arrested in what becomes known as the "Great Swindle". Lazzaro falls off a cliff, and the wolf meets him and identifies him by smell as a good man. When Lazzaro awakes many years later, he is unaged and wanders into Inviolata, which is long abandoned and being raided by robbers. The robbers tell him the estate has moved and they are moving possessions for the marquis. They also tell him the city is within walking distance. Lazzaro sets out for the city, which he has never seen before. There, a woman, Antonia, recognizes Lazzaro from the farm. She takes him into a circle of impoverished survivors of Inviolata. They express disbelief as to his lack of aging and tell him of the Great Swindle, but Lazzaro is more concerned with finding Tancredi. Recognizing Tancredi's voice when he is calling for his dog, Lazzaro is reunited with his "half-brother". Tancredi recognizes Lazzaro and is overjoyed. Lazzaro learns Tancredi has lost his fortune to the bank. He visits a bank, where he sets off an alarm. The staff and clients are terrified Lazzaro has a firearm, and Lazzaro asks for the de Luna fortune to be returned. When the clients realize Lazzaro only has a slingshot, they beat him. Lazzaro has another vision of the wolf, which takes off from the bank and runs free. ... > Read More
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Rory's Way |
| 11th, 12th and 15th September 2019 (Not Yet Rated) 120 mins Cast: Thora Birch, Brian Cox and Rosanna Arquette Genre: Drama Rory's Way stars acclaimed British actor Brian Cox as Rory MacNeil, a rugged old Scotsman who reluctantly leaves his beloved isolated Hebridean island and travels to San Francisco to seek medical treatment. Moving in with his estranged son, Rory sees his life transformed through a newly found bond with his baby grandson ...
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