Includes a Q&A with Cate Blanchett & director Warwick Thornton!
Watch TrailerThe acclaimed Indigenous Australian director’s evocative drama stars an incredible Australian cast including two-time Academy Award winner Cate Blanchett (Tár), Deborah Mailman (The Sapphires), Wayne Blair (director of Top End Wedding), and 11-year-old Aswan Reid “tipped to be the next movie star” after his stunning breakout performance.
Set in 1940s Australia, the film depicts the mesmeric story of a 9-year-old Aboriginal orphan boy (Reid) who arrives in the dead of night at a remote monastery run by a renegade nun (Blanchett). The new boy’s presence disturbs the delicately balanced world in this story of spiritual struggle and the cost of survival.
Event Details:
The Astor Theatre
Saturday, July 1 | 6:30pm, Q&A Post-film SOLD OUT!
Tickets:
Palace Movie Club: $45
General Admission: $50
Reviews:
“…the visual power of Thornton’s gorgeous compositions remains transfixing.”
– The Hollywood Reporter
“Warwick Thornton, with help from Blanchett as actor and producer, tells a mystical story that ties into shameful Australian history.”
– The Wrap
“Aswan Reid stuns as the titular young man at the heart of this beguiling Aussie parable.”
– IndieWire
“Blanchett brings… a fierce authority born of repressed emotion.”
– The Guardian
“The film’s visual splendor, along with a ripely entertaining performance by producer Cate Blanchett (in a rare return to Australian features) as the orphanage’s offbeat abbess, represent its chief selling points… [but] in the title role, kinetic, wide-eyed novice Aswan Reid is its secret weapon.”
– Variety
The Astor Theatre
SOLD OUT!
Saturday, July 1
6:30pm Film Screening
Q&A Post-Film
