Events

Movie Screening - featuring Paris When It Sizzles (1964)

Saturday, 10 May

3.00pm

The Theatrette

Starring: Audrey Hepburn, William Holden, Grégoire Aslan

IMDA Rating: PG (alcohol, light intimacy)

Runtime: 1hr 50min

About the Movie:

Hack writer Richard Benson, with advance in hand, has been hired by movie producer Alexander Meyerheim to write the screenplay for his latest movie, The Girl Who Stole the Eiffel Tower. In comes Gabrielle Simpson, hired by Benson to be his typist. She soon learns that Benson has squandered away almost twenty weeks without writing anything. Benson has only two days until Meyerheim arrives from Cannes expecting a final product. Benson comes up with a plan to imagine the movie being a day, Bastille Day, in the life of someone like Gabrielle. As Benson and Gabrielle work through the screenplay, they imagine themselves in the lead roles of "Rick" and "Gaby", subconsciously and sometimes consciously steering the story in the direction of what they hope will happen between "Richard Benson" and "Gabrielle Simpson", both to the screenplay's benefit and detriment.

For more information, approach any Library staff or email us at library@tanglinclub.org. Movie screenings at the Theatrette are complimentary; no registration is required.