Four feature films for Cannes

Press, 24 April 1986, Page 35

Four feature films for Cannes

By

OLIVER RIDDELL

in Wellington

Four New Zealand feature films will be shown for the first time at the Cannes Film Festival in southern France in May. All the Cannes screenings will be held at the Olympia Cinema, between May 10 and 16, and a team from the Film Commission will go to promote them. The four films are: • “Arriving Tuesday” — a romantic drama about three young people who make a voyage of self-discovery on New Zealand’s northern beaches. • “Dangerous Orphans” — a crime thriller in which three young men

set out to avenge the death of one’s father. • “Other Halves” — a contemporary love story (based on a novel by Sue Macaulay) involving a divorced woman and a street kid. O “Bridge to Nowhere” — an action adventure in which five teenagers come under threat during a week-end in the bush. Other New Zealand films which have been taken to Cannes include some of the most popular titles in the cinema circuit recently — “The Quiet Earth,” “Sylvia,” “Mr Wrong,” and “Leave All Fair.” The New Zealand film industry’s image was particularly high this year, said the commission’s chairman, Mr David

Gascoigne, who will be at Cannes. The month-long retrospective showing- at the Kennedy Centre in Washington had brought an extraordinary tribute from the American Film Institute, when it had described the New Zealand film industry as one of the wonders of the world, he said. The institute had noted that the industry had become “an unparalleled success story” on very little money and without a movie tradition. Mr Gascoigne said the Film Commission welcomed such warm recognition and was confident that the 1986 titles, and those to follow in 1987, would more than uphold New Zealand’s reputation.