Overview
‘You gave me my first glimpse of a real life and then you ask me to carry on with a false one. No-one can endure that.’ - Newland Archer, The Age of Innocence
As an accompaniment to its current exhibition Printmaking in the Age of Romanticism, the Art Gallery of New South Wales is serving up â€" slightly warm and blushing â€" a free cinema series set to thaw even the coldest of hearts.
Beginning with Luchino Visconti’s sumptuous 1963 film The Leopard (the full-length, Palme d’Or winning version), this cinema series boasts five romanticism-inspired period films: The Age of Innocence, Cyrano de Bergerac, Pride and Prejudice and Picnic at Hanging Rock. Together they possess a litany of cinematic accolades, so indulge guilt-free your pleasure for epic tales of romance, longing, honour and betrayal â€" this is serious cultural fare
Is it really necessary to resist the delicious, Scorcese-driven pairing of a young Michelle Pfeiffer and Daniel Day-Lewis? Ah, put away your Bukowski, it’s Keats’ time again. All breathy women and impeccably erect men - you shall endure it.
image: The Leopardhttps://youtube.com/watch?v=nri054ZsIPM
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When
Thursday, October 15, 2009 - Sunday, November 15, 2009
Thursday, October 15 - Sunday, November 15, 2009
Where
Domain Theatre, Art Gallery of NSWLower level 3, Art Gallery Road
Sydney