The Rehearsal
Directed by Alison Mclean
New Zealand | 2016 | Fiction | 102 min
Film Source: Pascale Ramonda
Sponsors: Champlain College
Also showing Thursday, October 26 at 4:15PM
This powerful film follows a group of students in New Zealand’s top theater school as they navigate through relationships with friends, teachers, parents and lovers. They face choices that force them to define their own views of an artist’s responsibility to both tell the truth of the human condition and protect the humanity of those people in the artist’s life. The film’s fun, quirky, Kiwi sensibility hides a deep complexity — just as the young actors’ good looks and lack of experience cause adults in the film to overlook the deep emotional lives of the students. ~JS
