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Whangarei Film Society - screenings for Thursday July 24th

Geoff from Central Whangarei

Good People

The film night for Thursday 17th July for WFS will be in the Capitaine Bougainville Theatre at Forum North, 7 Rust Ave Whangarei.

At 6pm, WFS will screen the powerful Irish drama based on the novel by Claire Keegan, Small Things Like These, starring Cillian Murphy.

Our 8pm screening is Merchant Ivory, a documentary about the team behind some of the most iconic films ever made.

SMALL THINGS LIKE THESE
Ireland, 2024 Drama, 98 mins, Rated PG
Cast: Cillian Murphy, Eileen Walsh, Emily Watson.
Director: Tim Mielants

A drama based on the novella by Claire Keegan. It's 1985 and Bill's job is to deliver coal to the local homes and businesses to support his wife and five daughters.

One of his customers is the Magdalene laundries, run by a local order of nuns. On one delivery, Bill finds a young girl locked in a coal shed. She's distressed and seemingly abandoned.

Unable to help her, Bill does some research and learns the laundry is part of an institution where “fallen women” are sent for “penance and rehabilitation”. The young women are held in an oppressive atmosphere and treated with cold indifference by the nuns.

Bill faces the decision of his life: ignore the injustice or risk everything and speak out against the complicit silence of a small Irish town that's controlled by the Catholic Church.

"A film with graceful storytelling and gossamer restraint. Not a thriller, but thrilling." - The Times

View the trailer at: www.youtube.com...

Tickets: Door sales only. $10 WFS members. Non-members pay $5 extra as an Associate Membership fee per film (Total of $15).

All welcome. Cash only please – no Eftpos available.

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