NELSON FILM SOCIETY

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SCREENINGS

The Nelson Film Society Season runs from
​1 March to 4 October 2022.
In 2022, screenings are on Tuesdays, 6pm,
usually at the Pastorius-Waller Theatre,
Suter Art Gallery, Te Aratoi o Whakatu, 
208 Bridge Street, Nelson

SCHEDULE

Nelson Film Society's 2022 Season is now live!
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JOIN

For membership options, and to join the Nelson Film Society, see here.  

Contact the Membership Secretary for info: nelsonfilmsociety@gmail.com.
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Tuesday 9th August, 6.00pm 
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Les Enfants du Paradis
The Children of Paradise
Marcel Carné  •  France  • ​  1945
190 mins  • BR  •   Exempt
In French, with English subtitles

The movie is not a historical epic but a sophisticated, cynical portrait of actors, murderers, swindlers, pickpockets, prostitutes, impresarios and the decadent rich.
​Many of the characters are based on real people, as is its milieu of nightclubs, dives and dens, theaters high and low, and the hiding places of the unsavory. - Roger Ebert



Marcel Carnés masterpiece, made under impossible conditions during France's Occupation in WWII, is an exquisitely poetic film about the nature and forms of love and the relation between art and life.
-Emanuel Levy

Even Truffaut conceded in the end: 'I have made 23 films, well, I would swap them all for the chance to have made Les enfants du paradis'.
- Eithne Farry

The Romance of Children of Paradise By Dudley Andrew which can be read here:
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/2472-the-romance-of-children-of-paradise
​Marcel Carné on Children of Paradise: Forty-Five Years Later:  
https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/2473-marcel-carne-on-children-of-paradise-forty-five-years-later
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VENUE

Nelson Film Society meets Tuesdays, 6pm at
The Pastorius-Waller Theatre,
Suter Art Gallery Te Aratoi o Whakatu,
​208 Bridge Street.

CONTACT

Nelson Film Society
P.O.Box 1623,  Nelson, 7040
Email: secretarynelsonfilmsociety@gmail.com

Nelson Film Society thanks the following for their support

The 2022 NZ Film Society Season is brought to you with the support of these cultural organisations