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, June 27 – 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.
Augusts’s movie is Kes.
Adapted from Barry Hines’s novel A Kestrel for a Knave, it tells of fifteen-year-old Billy Casper (David Bradley), who seems destined for a life in the coal mines of his hometown, Barnsley.
But Billy’s discovery of a kestrel, and his dedication in training it, give him optimism—however temporary. Chris Menges’s cinematography is as lyrical as John Cameron’s score, which seems to reflect Billy’s hidden potential while simultaneously sounding cautionary notes. Loach’s relaxed direction of a cast that includes ex-wrestler Brian Glover and future Chariots of Fire writer Colin Welland is as impressive as the unsentimental tenderness with which he depicts Billy’s life.
Kes remains one of Loach’s best-loved films. His hallmark traits of effortless naturalism and unpatronizing attention to working-class lives are on show here, fully formed and deeply affecting. The extraordinary performance of the nonprofessional Bradley as Billy is the film’s heart: he’s simultaneously as earnest, lively, and distracted as any 14-year-old but also resourceful and completely aware of his hopeless circumstances.
100% / 91% Rotten Tomatoes
Ken Loach, UK
1969 Drama/Fantasy/Romance, 1h 47m – PG coarse language
