Film

Wicklow Film Club celebrates Bealtaine

           "DEAN SPANLEY"

Directed by Toa Fraser,  2008.  /  Cert G

Date :   Thursday 27th May

Time :   7.30pm  (Doors open 7pm) (100 mins)

Where :  Friars Suite, Grand Hotel

Admission :  €1 Film Club membership at door.

Starring Peter O’Toole, Jeremy Northam, Sam Neill, Judy Parfitt, Bryan Brown

Based on a little-known 1936 novella by the Irish author Baron Dunsany, Dean Spanley stars Jeremy Northam as Fisk, an Edwardian publisher who is exasperated by his cantankerous father, played by Peter O'Toole: a dotty yet powerful performance. Fisk's older brother was killed in the Boer war and his mother died of a broken heart soon after, but Fisk Sr refuses to grieve.

His son makes the acquaintance of Dean Spanley (Sam Neill), a peppery and somewhat Trollopian churchman, and he is astonished to discover that the dean is the reincarnation of a bizarre departed soul - a soul who may, by declaring himself, allow dad to rediscover his emotions. It is odd, yet amusing, and O'Toole and Neill both give very nice performances. – Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

“Fraser’s delightfully eccentric and ultimately touching film set in Edwardian England features O’Toole on sublime form as an irascible curmudgeon...” - Michael Dwyer, The Irish Times

“What an eccentric, absorbing and rewarding film this is....Delightful” - David Cheal, The Telegraph

In asociation with Wicklow Film Club & Access Cinema

KID'S FILM CLUB - " THE LORAX "

For 4 - 6 year olds

Date :   Saturday 29th May

Time :   2 showings 10 - 11am & 11am-12pm

Where :  The Cave, High Street.

Admission :  FREE  Places limited to 20 per session, phone 086 0333906 to book a place

The Lorax is an environmental story about a boy who comes to a sad and empty corner of town to visit a being called the Once-ler who tells him the tale of the Lorax and of what happened to the beautiful forest of Truffula Trees that used to grow all around. Full of fantastical characters and tongue twisting rhyme, this film is a treat for all Dr. Seuss fans.

"What was the Lorax? And why was it there?
And why was it lifted and taken somewhere
from the far end of town where the Grickle-grass grows?
The old Once-ler still lives here.
Ask him. He knows."

   In association with Pat Kavanagh & The Cave Creative Arts Venture