Continuing with the new season of films showing at the Ventnor Winter Gardens, The Ventnor Film Society Present … Into the Wild.
Sean Penn has achieved a new maturity and depth as a director with this movie, the true story of Christopher McCandless, a bright young American college graduate who horrified his parents by sending his $24,000 law school fund to Oxfam, abandoning all his possessions and hiking off into the wilderness in search of a radical re-engagement with nature.
The resulting film is a richly, spaciously rendered account of landscape and moodscape: long, wordless scenes flow into each other, as McCandless heads off in search of American freedom, hitch-hiking or riding the boxcars, taking transient jobs. Emile Hirsch is brilliant as the intelligent and candid young McCandless.
Dir: Sean Penn USA 2007 148 mins Cert 15
Cast: Emile Hirsch, Marcia Gay Harden, William Hurt, Catherine Keener
Prices
Venue: Ventnor Winter Gardens
Season Ticket for all 8 films: £30 (£20 Concessionary)
Single Ticket: £4.50 (£3.50 Concessionary)
Concessionary tickets are available to students, senior citizens and the unwaged.
All VFS presentations (apart from special events) take place on Tuesday evenings and start at 7.30pm. There is a bar in the building and guests may take drinks into film presentations. All are welcome; you do not have to belong to the Society in order to attend.
