Wednesday, April 17, 6:15 PM (doors 5:45 PM) - SOLD OUT - Artists attending!
Matthew Rankin | Canada | 2019 | 90m
with Dan Beirne, Catherine St-Laurent, Louis Negin, Brent Skagford
Carbon Arc is excited to provide a venue for Fleapit Cinema's National Canadian Film Day screening of The Twentieth Century!
Director Matthew Rankin will be attending at the screening to take part in a discussion moderated by Nova Scotia filmmaker Ashley McKenzie!
Please note this is a pay-what-you-choose/can event to help cover the cost of bringing Matthew Rankin to the screening.
Toronto, 1899. Aspiring young politician Mackenzie King (Dan Beirne) dreams of becoming the Prime Minister of Canada. But his romantic vacillation between a British soldier and a French nurse, exacerbated by a fetishistic obsession, may well bring about his downfall. In his quest for power, King must gratify the expectations of his imperious Mother, the hawkish fantasies of a war-mongering Governor-General, and the utopian idealism of a Quebecois mystic before facing one, final test of leadership. Culminating in an epic battle between good and evil, King learns that disappointment may be the defining characteristic of the twentieth century!
"With hallucinatory visuals and deadpan comic timing, Rankin turns history into a fevered Freudian national dream." -Alison Gillmor, Winnipeg Free Press
"Mattew Rankin's gloriously bizarre debut feature is the reductio ad absurdum of biopics that privilege the ineffable spirit of their subject over matters of historical fact." -Andrew Wyatt, The Lens
"We're talking German Expressionist sets, wacky animations, drag performances, sexy underwear, Eton collars, silly contests, melodramatic music cues, fake newsreel clips, a boot fetish and a gigantic cactus..." -Sarah Boslaugh, TheArtsStl
Best Canadian First Feature Film - Toronto International Film Festival
FIPRESCI Prize - Berlin International Film Festival
Tickets: SOLD OUT
About Fleapit Cinema:
Fleapit is a programming collective bringing off-beat & experimentally driven Canadian cinema to Halifax. For more, visit Fleapit Cinema on Instagram: @fleapit.cinema
We are selling pay what you can tickets in the hope of recouping the costs incurred from hosting discussions with filmmakers from out of town.
Carbon Arc, Fleapit, and Hellifest are allocating all ticket revenues toward this recoupment.
