Film: The Movie Teller

M, 116 mins, Chile

A moving tribute to cinema and the magical power of storytelling, the new flm from multi award-winning director Lone Scherfg (An Education, One Day, Italian for Beginners) follows a young woman’s coming-of-age in a remote Chilean mining town.

1966. The nitrate salt fats of Chile’s Atacama Desert, the driest place on Earth, couldn’t feel further from the glamour of Hollywood, and life for the saltpetre miners is both hard and precarious. Every day is the same for Medardo (Antonio de La Torre, Marshland), his wife María Magnolia (Academy Awardnominee Bérénice Bejo, The Artist) and their four young children, except Sundays when they eagerly visit the cinema to disappear into other worlds together.

EVENT DETAILS:

• When: Sunday 24th & Wednesday 27th Nov

• Where: Star Court Theatre, Lismore

• Price: $18