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CANDY preview +Q&A - launch of popcorn taxi brisbane
Thu 04 May, 2006
Brisbane
Price: N/A
popcorn taxi brisbane and BIFF World Cinema Club present
CANDY(MA 15+)
preview screening and on-stage Q&A with
Director, Neil Armfield and Writer, Luke Davies
6:30pm Thursday 4 May 2006
Dendy Cinemas, 346 George St, Brisbane
Tickets from Dendy Cinemas Box Office (from 21 April): $18/$15
OFLC Rating: MA15+ (Frequent drug use, Strong themes, Strong coarse language, Sexual references)
Neil Armfield's adaptation of Luke Davies? best selling novel Candy will launch popcorn taxi brisbane. You will be able to meet both the Director, Neil Armfield, and Writer, Luke Davies, at the screening where they will participate in a unique popcorn taxi style meet the filmmaker event.
popcorn taxi has been running in Sydney and Melbourne for over six years and its organisers have curated over 400 unique programs since its inception. This very popular film event has won both the prestigious Byron Kennedy Award at the 2000 AFI Awards for excellence and innovation in the Australian Film Industry. In 2004, popcorn taxi won the Lexus IF Award for Film Festival Of The Year. To be the first to know of popcorn taxi brisbane events, visit www.popcorntaxi.com.au and register for free! Just enter your details in the form in the top right hand corner of the home page.
CANDY BACKGROUND
Acclaimed director Neil Armfield has adapted Luke Davies? best-selling novel Candy and produced a contemporary love story of startling beauty for the screen. In the title role, Abbie Cornish delivers a fearless portrayal of a young artist whose lust for life takes her to the edge of sanity. Heath Ledger breathes a sweet and tender optimism into Dan, a sometime-poet lost in love with Candy. In heroin they find a path to limitless pleasure. But as addiction takes hold they lose the very thing they sought. Candy opens the door on a dream vision that will have meaning for all who have been dazzled by the beauty of the world. Also featuring Geoffrey Rush as Casper, Tony Martin and Noni Hazelhurst as Candy's parents.
CANDY SYNOPSIS
Candy, a beautiful young painter (ABBIE CORNISH), is in the first throes of love with Dan, a sometime-poet (HEATH LEDGER). Their love intoxicates, like Paradise, like Eden: they care only for its increase, for the abandonment to pleasure. In heroin they find the limitlessness they are seeking. Their future together is invincible.
Soon the lovers have nothing left to hock. So Candy sells her body. Dan lets her, and imperceptibly they cross a boundary on the way out of Paradise. As the grip of their habit grows they renew their lover?s vows through marriage. Their big day passes in a drug-induced haze of bliss. Candy?s parents (TONY MARTIN & NONI HAZLEHURST) are bewildered. They watch their daughter slide into something they agonise over but cannot name.
As the days and nights roll on, Candy and Dan?s addiction becomes inseparable from their commitment to each other. They are ensnared in a lover?s double bind. Their beloved Casper (GEOFFREY RUSH), junkie professor, wayward mentor and exuberant host, watches them with clear-eyed vision. But his knowledge is bittersweet. Casper is the most sophisticated drug buddy you could imagine: he is also an addict.
As the marriage spirals, so does Candy?s mind. Her rage at their dream-gone-bad drives a wedge between the lovers. She surrenders to the chaos and goes into rehab. Separation is humbling for Dan. Apart from everything he loves, he gains a newfound clarity. He understands that Candy, like him, has been granted a reprieve.
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popcorn taxi brisbane is presented in association with the BIFF World Cinema Club and acknowledges the financial assistance of the Pacific Film and Televsion Commission and Australian Film Commission. Special thanks for this program to the filmmakers, Dendy Films and Dendy Cinemas.
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