Sunset Cinema shows international & NZ films on the last Friday of the month, brought to you by Carterton Film Society in the Rangitahi Hub – enter via the lane beside the clocktower.
Doors open at 7 pm for you to enjoy a cuppa, some fabulous cake or snacks (with gluten-free options), and chat with friends before the movie screening at 7.30 pm.
When
Friday, July 25 – 7:30 pm (doors open at 7pm)
Prices
Full Year Membership $80
3 Trip Sampler Membership $35
Because we are one of New Zealand’s film societies we need to offer memberships rather than single tickets.
July’s movie is Chicken for Linda!
In the animated French feature Chicken for Linda! a mother accuses her young daughter of stealing a ring of great and mournful value. When the mother, Paulette (voiced by Clotilde Hesme), discovers her error, she promises to do whatever Linda (Mélinée Leclerc) wishes by way of apology. Linda was an infant when her father died, so she asks her culinarily challenged mother to cook her father’s go-to dish: chicken and peppers.
A general strike—Vive la France!—tosses a slapstick wrench into Paulette’s pledge, closing stores and forcing her to secure the chicken by other means. Police officers give slapstick chase. A watermelon truck and its kindly driver enter the fray. Paulette’s older sister, Astrid (Laetitia Dosch)—a yoga teacher who self-medicates with candy—is dragged into the mess. And the children and denizens of the congenial apartment complex observe and participate in the increasingly madcap antics of mother and child.
For all its playful colour-block hues and deceptively casual illustrations, the movie delivers a sharp mix of pathos and humour. It explores the differences in grief and memory for child and spouse with a touch as wisely light as the movie’s score, by the composer Clément Ducol’s, which lands festive, thrilling, sorrowful notes instrumentally and in songs.
94% Rotten Tomatoes
Sébastien Laudenbach & Chiara Malta, France/Italy
2023 Animated Comedy/Drama, 1h 16m – PG coarse language
