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October 23, 2016
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October 23rd, 7pm-9pm – LSPU Hall –
Maudie
DIRECTOR: Aisling Walsh
WRITER: Sherry White
PRODUCER: Mary Sexton
RUNTIME: 90mins
COUNTRY: Canada
SYNOPSIS: With a bravura performance by Sally Hawkins as the titular figure, Maudie is an uncannily brilliant profile of the much-revered folk artist. Nova Scotia-based Maud Lewis famously suffered from crippling arthritis. The loneliness such a condition must have imposed on her found a large measure of relief in painting. Lewis’s colourfully naïve images drawn from gardens and fields surely animated the dullness of her domestic environment. But what began as a pastime grew into something much larger once the world more or less accidentally discovered her work. Also more or less accidental was the way Lewis’s gruff husband entered Lewis’s life. Played with uncharacteristic crustiness by Ethan Hawke, Everett Lewis changed everything. Not the world’s favourite bachelor, he nonetheless gave Lewis a new life and a teeny weeny home in which she could colour her world. With a script by our BFF Sherry White and production credits shared by the indomitable Mary Sexton, Maudie is a gripping story made more powerful through its understated treatment of a rather unusual figure in the Canadian imaginary.
Crocuses
WRITER/DIRECTOR: Wanda Nolan
RUNTIME: 6:40
COUNTRY: Canada/NL
SYNOPSIS: On the last day of packing up her home, Rita can’t shake the regret she feels about her late husband.