Jane Austen Wrecked my Life
Monday June 9, 2:00 only
94 min
French/English subtitles
Season Sponsor: Rastins PharmaChoice Pharmacy
Film Date Sponsor: Ann and Ian Cambell
Proceeds to Ancaster Community Services
Tickets: https://www.memorialarts.ca/films/jane-austen-wrecked-my-life
A desperately single bookseller, lost in a fantasy world, finds herself forced to fulfill her dreams of becoming a writer in order to stop messing up her love life.
Awards
Miami Film Festival: nominated Best First Feature
Marrakesh Film Festival: nominated Best Feature
Reviews
At a time when practically the entire rom-com genre has gravitated to streaming, this bilingual theatrical offering from Sony Pictures Classics feels like the best kind of throwback. Peter DeBruge/Variety
Writer/director Laura Piani, in her feature film debut, is helping to save the rom/com genre with her very funny, very clever ode to the much-revered British authoress in JANE AUSTEN WRECKED MY LIFE. Jeanne Kaplan/Kaplan vs Kaplan
While the romantic resolution is satisfying, it is not the solution, but rather a reflection of the courage and determination Agathe has relied on in addressing the issues that are keeping her stuck. Miss Austen would approve. Nell Minow/Movie Mom
Jane Austen Wrecked My Life knows its audience and caters directly to them. If you, like the film’s protagonist, are obsessed with Jane Austen literature and film adaptations, you’ll certainly adore this love letter to the great author. Seal Boelman/Fandom
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31112509/
https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/jane_austen_wrecked_my_life
White Bird
Monday June 9, 7:15 pm only
120 min
Season Sponsor: Rastins PharmaChoice Pharmacy
Film Date Sponsor: Ann and Ian Campbell
Proceeds to Ancaster Heritage Days: Outdoor Screening
Tickets: https://www.memorialarts.ca/films/white-bird
From the best-selling author of Wonder, the book that sparked a movement to "choose kind," comes the inspirational next chapter. In White Bird: A Wonder Story, we follow Julian (Bryce Gheisar), who has struggled to belong ever since he was expelled from his former school for his treatment of Auggie Pullman. To transform his life, Julian's grandmother (Helen Mirren) finally reveals to Julian her own story of courage. Also starring Gillian Anderson, Orlando Schwerdt and Ariella Glaser.
Reviews
The strength of White Bird lies in its young performers, especially Glaser and Schwerdt, who deliver complex, nuanced performances of young people experiencing their part of global atrocities on an intimate scale, while also trying to navigate the complications of connecting as young teenagers. They are both excellent, and keep the film emotionally grounded. Katie Walsh/Los Angeles Times
With elegant acting from its two young leads and picturesque cinematography from Matthias Koenigswieser, it serves as a competently executed morality play for audiences craving a bit of unambiguous humanism. Christian Zilko/Indiewire
You can appreciate the artistry and the fine acting and the timeless messaging in the beautifully filmed coming-of-age drama White Bird without having seen Wonder, but the connection between these two very different films is quite unusual and absorbing... Richard Roeper/Chicago Sun Times
There’s a reason so many works of art and nonfiction continuously venture back to the specific time and events portrayed here: the impact and lessons they bring to the world will never lose their importance. Joseph Tomastik/Clear and Loud Reviews
Other Films Dates: 2025 Season
OTHER FILM DATES: Screenings 2:00 pm and 7:15
Jan 20: Lee, 2:00 pm
Jan 20: Goodrich, 7:15 pm
Feb 24, I'm Still Here, 2:00 pm
Feb 24: Emilia Perez 7:15 p.m.
Mar 17 Small Things Like These 2:00 p.m.
Mar 17 No Other Land 7:15 p.m.
April 7 Bob Trevino Likes It 2:00 p.m.
April 7 There's Still Tomorrow 7:15 p.m.
April 28 The Penguin Lessons 2:00 p.m.
April 28 Shepherds 7:15 p.m.
May 12: Maria Montessori: La Nouvelle Femme
May 12: Bad Shabbos 7:15 p.m.
May 26: So Surreal: Behind the Masks 2:00 p.m.
May 26: Santosh 7:15 p.m.
June 9: Jan Austen Wrecked My Life 2:00 p.m.
June 9: Whiter Bird, 7:15 p.m.
Sept 22
Oct 6
Nov 3
Dec 8
Other Items of Interest
AFF Library of Some of Our Past Films
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