A few articles concering The Slap being screened at MIFF.
THE SLAP
Australia, 2011 (Prime Time)The slap seemed to echo. It cracked the twilight. The little boy looked up at the man in shock. There was a long silence.
This year’s MIFF will host a special world premiere screening of the first two episodes of the long-awaited ABC TV adaptation of The Slap, the controversial, highly praised and Premier’s Award winning novel by Melbourne-based Christos Tsiolkas.
When a backyard cricket match turns into an out-of-control tantrum for an irritable boy, one man’s attempt to punish a child that is not his own explodes into a world of litigation and resentment. A biting portrait of the seething underbelly of middle-class Australian life seen through the eyes of eight affected characters, The Slap is a bleakly comic demolition of our cosy assumptions about community, family and the way we raise our children.
Stars Jonathan LaPaglia, Essie Davis, Sophie Okonedo, Sophie Lowe and Melissa George.
Cast and crew will be present for the screening.
D Jessica Hobbs P Tony Ayres, Helen Bowden, Michael McMahon S Kris Mrksa, Emily Ballou Dist ABC TD HD Cam/2011
Sessions
Code: 2104
Film: THE SLAP (110 min)
Date Time: Thu 4 aug 6:30 PM
Venue: Greater Union Cinema 6
Slap hits the big screen at MIFF
Megan Miller From: Herald Sun July 06, 2011 12:00AMIN A slap to the small screen, ABC-TV’s most hotly anticipated mini-series for 2011 will make its world debut at this month’s Melbourne International Film Festival.
The first two episodes of Aunty’s eight-part TV adaptation of the award-winning novel The Slap will screen as part of MIFF’s new Prime Time category, which focuses on works made for television by filmmakers better known in cinema.
Tony Ayres, the AFI-winning writer and director of The Home Song Stories, is co-producing the mini-series, which will air on ABC1 later this year.
In other MIFF programming news announced last night at Toff in Town, Belgium romance The Fairy will open the event.
It is one of the 25 flicks – also alongside Lars von Triers’ Melancholia, starring Kirsten Dunst – picked up from May’s Cannes Film Festival in France.
Super Size Me star Morgan Spurlock will be a guest of the fest, presenting his latest project, POM Wonderful: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold, a doco about, and made via, product placement.
US director Mike Mills will also hit town, accompanying his film Beginners, inspired by his own father’s decision to come out before his death and starring Ewan McGregor.
A pick of the local fare is the world premiere of Fred Schepisi’s The Eye of the Storm, with Geoffrey Rush and Judy Davis.
This year is the 60th anniversary of MIFF. Tickets go on sale on Friday.
MELBOURNE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Various venues July 21-August 7
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