
Book Club: Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Book Club
Sun
27
Sun 27 Jul 1:00 PM
Arc Cinema
Allocated Seating
106 Mins | Book Club at the NFSA
July
2018 | DCP | US | D: Marielle Heller
BOOK CLUB AT THE NFSA IN PARTNERSHIP WITH CANBERRA WRITERS FESTIVAL
Once a successful biographer, Lee Israel (Melissa McCarthy) has fallen on hard times, until she discovers she can make money forging letters by literary greats like Dorothy Parker and Noël Coward. Helped by her friend Jack (Richard E Grant) she embarks on her criminal career.
Based on Lee Israel’s memoir, the film explores friendship, identity and loneliness.
“The miracle is Melissa McCarthy, whose tortured portrait of disgraced celebrity author and convicted forger Lee Israel is the consummate performance of her career and the crowning achievement of her life.” – The Observer
The screening will be followed by a discussion of the film and the memoir with special guest TBC.
BOOK CLUB AT THE NFSA IN PARTNERSHIP WITH CANBERRA WRITERS FESTIVAL
Once a successful biographer, Lee Israel (Melissa McCarthy) has fallen on hard times, until she discovers she can make money forging letters by literary greats like Dorothy Parker and Noël Coward. Helped by her friend Jack (Richard E Grant) she embarks on her criminal career.
Based on Lee Israel’s memoir, the film explores friendship, identity and loneliness.
“The miracle is Melissa McCarthy, whose tortured portrait of disgraced celebrity author and convicted forger Lee Israel is the consummate performance of her career and the crowning achievement of her life.” – The Observer
The screening will be followed by a discussion of the film and the memoir with special guest TBC.
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