From: 11 July 2008
To: 11 July 2008
Another evening of cinematic delight with 'Into The Wild' - Sean Penn's story of a young man struggling to come to terms with life.
Set in the early '90s, when Christopher, just out of college, leaves the privileged life he has known to become a self-styled vagabond. He exits his existence, donating his savings to Oxfam, dropping out in the style of a '60s hippie-tramp who's trashed all ambition.
The beauty of Into the Wild, which Penn has written and directed with magnificent precision and imaginative grace, is that what Christopher is running from is never as important as what he's running to. He craves splendor and risk, a way of shaking off his suburban numbness. And he craves it so badly that he gets addicted to it. He's going nowhere, just living, maybe dying — and embracing the adventure.
Into the Wild delivers his journey to your senses. It's an intensely physical movie, yet it's never just physical. Every image (rivers, highways, icy mountains) tells its own story — of a terrain that must be met, and then conquered.
Tickets available from the village post office nearer the date.
£4 adults, £2 children. www.llanfoistvillagehall.co.uk