Film & TV

Cloudburst: Multi-award winner finally hits the cinema

 

CloudburstAward winning Canadian feature film Cloudburst receives a long-overdue limited national cinema release on 8 July. Starring Academy Award winners Olympia Dukakis and Brenda Fricker and directed by Thom Fitzgerald (Hanging Garden), Cloudburst has won 30 Best Picture Awards and enjoyed sold out screenings at film festivals around the world.

The film has only been seen in Adelaide as a once-off Feast Festival fundraiser in March 2012 and now returns to the Mercury Cinema & Trak Cinema for a highly anticipated season.

Cloudburst is a romantic comedy that tackles some of contemporary life’s biggest issues. Stella and Dot have been together for 31 years, faithfully accompanying one another through life’s ups and downs. Now in their seventies and with Dot legally blind, they are forced to make a bold decision when Dot’s granddaughter Molly decides to intervene in their lives.

Forced to become outlaws, Stella and Dot hit the road to Nova Scotia, Canada to get legally married. Along the way, they pick up young hitch-hiker, Prentice, on his way home to see his dying mother. Prentice has much to learn from Stella and Dot as they wage their unexpected battle struggling to keep their family together after three decades.

With equal parts humour and grace, Cloudburst explores life, death and love through the eyes of this unusual trio.

Cloudburst
When:
From 8 July
Where: Mercury Cinema, Lion Arts Centre, Morphett Road, Adelaide AND Trak Cinema, 375 Greenhill Rd, Toorak Gardens

Tickets: Mercury Cinema & http://www.theregaltheatre.com.au/

 

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