MISSION BEACH FILM CLUB Presents: Paradise Road on Saturday 9 May 2015 from 7 PM

Paradise Road 1997 Australia/UK – 122 minutes – Drama – M 15+ Stars: Glenn Close, Frances McDormand, Pauline Collins Director: Bruce Beresford

IMDb Rating: 6.8 Trailer: www.youtube.com/watch?v=d_m6IhkTwxM Language: English Awards: www.imdb.com/title/tt0119859/awards?ref_=tt_awd

Based on real events and people, Paradise Road is the story of a number of women interned by the Japanese in Sumatra during the war who form a choir, using music that is orchestrated - entirely from memory - by an inmate (a missionary), as a way of coping with the trauma of their predicament. The story begins at an elegant dinner dance at Raffles in February 1942, which is rudely interrupted by the war - the Japanese arrive in Singapore. Women and children are sent off on a boat but the ship is bombed and the survivors captured. In the depravations of the Japanese camp, the women form unlikely relationships, which play out against their relations with their captors. And of course, the music which they create.

Location: Mission Arts – M.A.R.C.S Park, Crn Cassowary Drive & Seaview Street Start: 7.00 PM By Membership only: $40 for 1 year, $15 for 3 months – please sign up on the night or download the membership form from our website: missionbeach.filmclub.org.au

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