PARADISE presents GOLDEN EIGHTIES
A musical dealing with love and city centre stores.
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Paradise Theatre
1006c Bloor Street West Toronto, ON M6H 1M2 CanadaRefund Policy
About this event
- Event lasts 2 hours
THIS SEPTEMBER … You know that we are living in a material world, so let’s take a tour with the target demographic! The Paradise Presents: MATERIAL GIRLS- a cinematic exploration of consumerism through a feminine lens. Join us for nine glossy pictures, with distinctive forms of pop sensibilities, that satirize and comment on the world in which we live.
Get in losers, we're going shopping! Join us for another joyously exuberant musical- this time courtesy of legendary avant-garde feminist filmmaker Chantal Akerman. In her 1986 tribute to the MGM productions of yore- she plays with the genre while slyly satirizing contemporary consumerist culture. Join us for the unsung masterpiece GOLDEN EIGHTIES.
The exuberant enchantments of the singing, dancing musical meet the feminist, formalist sensibility of cinematic visionary Chantal Akerman in this uniquely captivating vision of love and survival in the age of late capitalism. Amid the consumerist wonderland of a shopping mall, a cadre of store employees bounce in and out of one another’s arms in a cycle of breakups, makeups, misunderstandings, and reunions, their romantic roundelay punctuated by imaginatively stylized production numbers. Working with frequent star Delphine Seyrig and a remarkable team of writers—who between them penned everything from JULES AND JIM to DESPERATELY SEEKING SUSAN—Akerman deftly balances the shiny pop pleasures of the genre with piercing variations on her signature themes, including a startlingly moving reflection on Jewish resilience and the legacy of the Holocaust.
(Courtesy of Janus Films)
Sunday, September 22nd, 7 PM/6:30 PM Doors
General Admission $12.50 | Student/Senior (with valid ID) $10.00 + HST/eventbrite fees
Door tickets are available for purchase on the day of screening. Refunds can be requested up to 24 hours before the screening. All refunds must be requested and processed through eventbrite.
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