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Pick of the Indies
FORMER Monty Python star Terry Gilliam is presenting his latest film Tideland at the Phoenix Cinema on Thursday December 7.
The director, who lives in Highgate, will be quizzed by the audience on his movies at the event.
Tideland is a macabre, surreal film about an abandoned child named Jeliza-Rose. The story centres on Jeliza-Rose’s solitary adventures during one summer in the Texan outback while staying at a rundown farmhouse, and focuses on the fantasy life the girl creates with the aid of dismembered Barbie doll heads that she often wears on her fingertips.
Whilst her father lies dead in an armchair, Jeliza-Rose ventures out on her own. During her wanderings, she eventually encounters and befriends her neighbours, a mentally challenged young man called Dickens and his older sister Dell. As the story begins to unfold, a past connection between Dell and Jeliza-Rose’s deceased father is revealed.
n Call the Phoenix on 020 8444 6789 for tickets.
Meanwhile, the Highgate Film Society, based at the Highgate Science and Literary Institute, are screening Patricia Rozema’s Mansfield Park on Thursday 30 November.
Starring Primrose Hill-based actor Johnnie Lee Miller, Frances O’Connor and Harold Pinter, the period drama based on Jane Austen’s book is as lavish as the prose she wrote.
O’Connor takes the lead as Fanny Price, a fly-on-the-wall chronicler of the comings and goings of the great and the good seeking her own personal happiness.
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