Cloudburst |

JHB:
Fri 27

7pm
Tues 31

7pm
Thu 2

7.15pm
Fri 3

6.45pm
Sun 5

5.45pm, 8pm

CT:
Fri 27

7pm
Tues 31

6.45pm
Wed 1 Aug

7pm
Fri 3

6.45pm
Sat 4

6.15pm, 8.15pm

Cloudburst

Language: English

Dir: Thom Fitzgerald

Details: Canada, USA | 2011 | 93 min

Tags: adventure, comedy, drama, lesbian, romance

Synopsis CBD07---0616

Winner of a slew of awards including the Grand Jury Prize at Atlanta, Fitzgerald’s road movie about two lesbians who escape one’s impending incarceration in a home and head to Canada, is so much more than just Thelma and Louise for wrinklies. The chemistry between Steel Magnolias’ Olympia Dukakis and My Left Foot Oscar-winner Brenda Fricker is never anything but utterly believable, and the script they are given, marvelous.

Stella and Dot head north to Nova Scotia after Dot’s family decide to institutionalise her after a fall, potentially separating her from long-time, clandestine lover Stella. Along the way, serenaded by kd, they encounter the by now de rigueur speed bumps of all road movies – a male hitchhiker, unexpected separation, old people trivialities — and lots of fun. Indeed, first and foremost Cloudburst is funny. Really funny. The one-liners flow like (foul) bilge water and the sailor-smut that geysers forth is all the script you ever hoped Betty White would get a chance to gush. Uproariously good entertainment, a real keeper.