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Late Bloomers (Madman, PG – coarse language, 105  mins)

Late Bloomers stars Isabella Rossellini and William Hurt as a married couple pulled apart by the threat of old age (would you believe 60 years old!). In a dark and dingy, most un-London-like apartment, the Italian-born Mary (Rossellini) is coming to terms with her approaching 60th birthday. Mother Nora (Mantle) lives next door. Husband Adam (Hurt) has just received a career award from architectural body RIBA and this, coupled with an incident of memory loss, prompts Maria to re-assess their lives. She takes up water aerobics and gets shirty with Adam because he doesn’t like the telephone she has bought with a large-type dialling pad for the aged. This leads him to eventually leave the marital home and move to his office; a radical move, perhaps, but also understandable, given how aggressively irritating Mary is. In his working life, Adam’s glory days as a builder of transport hubs are behind him and, despite the warnings of practice owner Simon Callow (larger than life, performing in another film entirely), he starts on a project to tender for a museum in the Battersea Power Station, a project “bigger than the Louvre”. A jaunty soundtrack and credits set the scene. 

Dates:

• Sat, 18 August 2012 @ 7.30pm
  Saturday
• Mon, 20 August 2012 @ 7.30pm
  Monday
• Sun, 26 August 2012 @ 2pm
  Sunday

Location

Central Stories Museum - SBS Meeting Room