Curator's Choice Screenings
Hettie Judah has programmed a trilogy of films written by Diablo Cody
Juno, Young Adult and Tully all explore parenthood from a female perspective. Hettie Judah, Curator of Acts of Creation: On Art and Motherhood says and expands on this in our video introduction - see below to watch
"Whether in comedies or horror movies, mothers in cinema tend to fall into stereotypes – doting, ditzy, bawdy, nagging, neurotic, distant, toxic, unhinged. Portrayals rooted in women's lived experiences are rare indeed. I'm a great admirer of screenwriter Diablo Cody and the way she invites us to engage with complex emotion through sassy dialogue. She is incredibly funny, so her films read, superficially, as comedies, but they are driven by very relatable sadness, anger and frustration…"
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Curator's Choice Screening: Juno (35mm)
Tue 27 May, 18:00
When precocious teen Juno MacGuff (Elliot Page) becomes pregnant, she chooses a failed rock star (Jason Bateman) and his wife (Jennifer Garner) to adopt her unborn child. Things then get more complicated when the prospective father begins viewing Juno as more than just the mother of his future child, putting both his marriage and the adoption in jeopardy.
A refreshingly candid coming-of-age comedy for which writer Diablo Cody won a Best Original Screenplay Oscar, Juno addresses teenage pregnancy with great tenderness and subtlety through a smart and unconventional heroine played by Elliot Page. Book tickets here.
Curator's Choice Screening: Young Adult
Wed 4 June, 20:30
Young Adult is written by Diablo Cody and directed by Jason Reitman with Charlize Theron starring as the self-obsessed and shambolic Mavis Gary, a 37-year-old writer of young adult fiction.
Returning to her hometown to reclaim her ex-boyfriend (Patrick Wilson) despite the fact he is happily married with a new baby, Mavis creates a wave of emotional havoc in Cody’s blackly comedic look at a woman in the grips of a mid-life crisis. Book tickets here.
Curator's Choice Screening: Tully
Mon 9 June, 18:00
Charlize Theron stars as Marlo, an exhausted mother who is pregnant with their third, unplanned, baby. After being offered the gift of a night nanny, Tully (Mackenzie Davis) arrives and the exhausted Marlo’s life changes in unexpected ways in this “hallucinatory ride through the sleep-deprived months of early motherhood” (Hettie Judah). Book tickets here.
