Film buffs don’t forget that the Ventnor Film Society will be screening Into The Wild tonight. It’s a film that will capture the hearts of those who feel like just getting away from it all.
Taking place in the man hall at the Ventnor Winter Gardens and costing just £4.50 (£3.50 concessions), this is great way to spend the evening.
You can even buy your favourite tipple from the bar to enjoy whilst watching the film.
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.
