Sunday 17 July 2022 21:00
Summer at the SNFCC and the screenings at the Great Lawn continue: The well-established Park Your Cinema series renews its cooperation with the Thessaloniki International Film Festival for a second year, presenting the films selected for our adult viewers. Our date is on for unforgettable cinematic moments under the stars!
Looking back on the years that shaped us and experiences we all share, the cozy, welcoming darkness of the movies is ever-present, like a big, shared embrace that fits us all inside. Cinema is part of our coming-of-age tale, of each one’s personal history. Its images are interwoven with those of our own lives; the fictional tales of the films we grew up with merge our personal myths with those of others, the people we consider “our own,” our friends, members of the “tribe” in which we choose to belong.
And through the years, as “going to the movies” transformed over many generations of spectators from mere recreation to something of a “social ritual,” cinema in a way taught us how to mature, at times making us wonder whether the most defining coming-of-age story was the one we experienced ourselves, or some other that we saw on the big screen.
This summer, in the warm, welcoming darkness of the open sky of the SNFCC, we will be reliving together some of the stories we grew up with, stories that remind us what it means to be young, then or now or forever, the way only great cinema can.
Lady Bird (2017) Christine MacPherson is a senior at the Catholic High School of Sacramento. She yearns for adventure, complexity, and opportunities, but finds none of those in her school entourage. Greta Gerwig’s film, nominated for 5 Academy Awards (Best Motion Picture, Best Achievement in Directing, Best Original Screenplay, Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role, Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role) follows her protagonist during her last school year, recording the most pivotal moments in her life: her first romance, her participation at the school theater performance, her college application.
Director: Greta GerwigScriptwriter: Greta GerwigCast: Saoirse Ronan, Laurie Metcalf, Trace LettsCountry of Production: USAYear of Production: 2017
Duration: 94'
Sunday 17/07 | 21.00 Great Lawn
Free entrance
* It is recommended that guests be equipped with insect repellant, as well as a mat or a blanket to lay on the lawn.
Park your cinema and Park your cinema Kids series are free and open to all, thanks to an exclusive grant by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation.
