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"The Piano" plus "Owl Movie"
Sunday, January 22 2012, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
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The Wendell COA Film Series
Presents
 The Piano
plus Owl Movie, a student video
 
The Piano (1993, 121 minutes, rated “R”) stars Holly Hunter as Ada McGrath, a mute but strong-willed 19th-century Scottish expatriate who arrives in New Zealand with her daughter (Anna Paquin) and her beloved piano in tow. Although betrothed to a landowner (Sam Neill), she's pulled into an affair with a laborer (Harvey Keitel). Hunter and Paquin both won Oscars for their performances in this haunting drama, as did writer-director Jane Campion.
The Piano tells a story of love and fierce pride, and places it on a bleak New Zealand coast where people live rudely in the rain and mud, struggling to maintain the appearance of the European society they've left behind. It is a story of shyness, repression and loneliness; of a woman who will not speak and a man who cannot listen, and of a willful little girl who causes mischief and pretends she didn't mean to. The performance by Paquin, as the daughter, is one of the most extraordinary examples of a child's acting in movie history. The Piano is one of those rare movies that is not just about a story, or some characters, but about a whole universe of feeling - of how people can be shut off from each other, lonely and afraid, about how help can come from unexpected sources, and about how you'll never know if you never ask. –Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
This film is rated “R” for Moments of Extremely Graphic Sexuality.
Our short feature this month is Owl Movie, a video by Streeter Elliot, a student of Amie Keddy’s at Bement School. Owl Movie (6 minutes) is a delightful production about owls. Although quite young, Streeter shows great promise as a filmmaker with this production. We are hopeful that Amie will attend to introduce Streeter’s film.
Sunday, January 22, 7:00pm, Wendell Free Library
Free!
Location : Herrick Room, Wendell Free Library
Contact : Douglas Dawson 978-544-7762

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