Hanna (2011) & Stoker (2013) - 'Mummy Issues' Double Bill
Schedule
Sun May 12 2024 at 06:00 pm to 10:00 pm
Location
44 Lorne Street, Auckland, New Zealand 1010 | Auckland, AU
Bring out all those tricky internal tensions with your darling mother at Academy's very special Mother's Day event!We are bringing you two highly stylish, intensely thrilling cult classics from master directors Park Chan-wook (OLDBOY) and Joe Wright (ATONEMENT) that both have a rather 'unorthodox' take on that mother-daughter bond we hold so dear!
Starring Saoirse Ronan and Mia Wasikowska in some of the best performances of their careers, playing the dangerous problem children of Cate Blanchett and Nicole Kidman, who serve deliciously devilish work as the red-headed 'motherly' figures in each film!
INSANE pricing: See BOTH films for the price of ONE!
20 minute intermission in between films
PLEASE NOTE: also comes a with a large added dose of daddy issues.
210 mins | Rated R16 (Violence, offensive language & sex scenes) | Thriller
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HANNA (2011)
dir. Joe Wright
111 min
Raised deep in the Finnish wilderness by her ex-CIA agent father Erik (Bana), Hanna (Ronan) has been carefully trained throughout her childhood to become the perfect assassin. Now in her teens, she is finally judged by her father to be ready to be sent out on a mission, and she sets out across Europe to carry out her deadly assignment. On her trail is Marissa Wiegler (Blanchett), a ruthless intelligence agent with a few dark secrets of her own. An action fairy tale of lightning speed, gritty action and shocking gravity, all driven by the electronic beat of the best-of-the-decade hypnotic score by the Chemical Brothers.
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STOKER (2013)
dir. Park Chan-wook
99 min
Academy Award winner Nicole Kidman, Mia Wasikowska and Matthew Goode star in this “darkly wicked, beautifully executed mystery” (Los Angeles Times) by critically acclaimed filmmaker Park Chan-wook (OLDBOY, THE HANDMAIDEN, DECISION TO LEAVE). Following the death of her father, India Stoker meets her charismatic uncle, whom she never knew existed. When he moves in to comfort India and her mother, the two find that the newest member of their family might actually be their worst nightmare.
Where is it happening?
44 Lorne Street, Auckland, New Zealand 1010, New Zealand