The Daughter.
The Daughter director Simon Stone and cast including Ewen Leslie and Odessa Young are set take part in Q and A sessions following preview screenings of the film in Sydney at Melbourne.
Palace Cinemas will host Stone (The Turning) and actors Young (Looking for Grace) and Leslie (Dead Europe) for two sessions.
Moderated by film critic David Stratton, they will follow preview screenings of the film at Palace Verona, in Sydney’s Paddington and Palace Cinema Como, in Melbourne’s South Yarra.
The Daughter is inspired by Stone’s adaptation of Henrik Ibsen’s The Wild Duck, which was first performed at Belvoir Theatre in Sydney.
The Daughter also features performances from a stellar cast which includes Geoffrey Rush, Miranda Otto and Sam Neil.
Produced by Jan Chapman (The Piano, Lantana) and Nicole O’Donohue and with costumes by Margot Wilson (The Dressmaker), the film is a deeply involving and emotionally searing story about themes of the haunted past detonating in the present.
In the last days of a dying logging town Christian (Schneider) returns to his family home for his father Henry’s (Rush) wedding.
While home, Christian reconnects with his childhood friend Oliver (Leslie), who has stayed in town working at Henry’s timber mill and is now out of a job.
As Christian gets to know Oliver’s wife Charlotte (Otto), daughter Hedvig (Young) and father Walter (Neill), he discovers a secret that could tear Oliver’s family apart.
As he tries to right the wrongs of the past, his actions threaten to shatter the lives of those he left behind years before.
PALACE CINEMA COMO
(Cnr Toorak Road & Chapel Street, South Yarra)
Monday 22 February
7.00pm: Film session starts, Cinema # 2
8.30pm- 9.05pm: Q&A with writer/director Simon Stone and actors Odessa Young and Ewen Leslie, moderated by David Stratton and Michael Bodey
PALACE VERONA
(17 Oxford Street, Paddington)
Wednesday 24 February
7.15pm: Film session starts, Cinema # 2
8.45pm- 9.20pm: Q&A with writer/director Simon Stone and actors Odessa Young and Ewen Leslie, moderated by David Stratton and Michael Bodey