12 April 2006 - Before the offical opening!

Join us for food, drinks and a choc top (included in $30 entry fee) from 6 pm to 6:30pm in the foyer before the film.

7pm* - movie start time is approximate - please
check exact session time on the day" for "The Squid & the Whale"

Cinema Nova, 380 Lygon St Carlton

Contact Annie Warner on 0421 051998 for tickets.

Writer-director Noah Baumbach earned the 2005 Best Dramatic Directing Award as well as the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the 2005 Sundance Film Festival for his film about a family splintered by divorce. Since then the script has also been voted best original screenplay by the LA and NYC Film Critics Association and the National Board of Review. It was also nominated for an Academy Award in the best original screenplay category.

Anchored by a wonderful performance from Jeff Daniels, The Squid and The Whale also stars Laura Linney, Jesse Elsenberg, Owen Kline, Anna Paquin and William Baldwin. The film captures with extraordinary immediacy the inner workings of the Berkman family in 1986 Brooklyn. Bernard (Jeff Daniels), an academic and author, and his restless wife Joan, (Laura Linney) an up-and-coming writer, have given up on their marriage. Their two sons Walt(Jesse Eisenberg), 16, and Frank (Owen Kline), 12, are left to grapple with their confusing and conflicted feelings.

Rated MA. Running time is 81 minutes.