The Lure - WFS Film Fest screening - members only booking

R16 (Violence, horror, sex scenes & offensive language)

BOOKING DETAILS

To book, you must have a valid full year membership to the Wellington Film Society. You can book up to two seats per film - but all attendees must be valid full year members.We are making half the seats in the theatre bookable. The rest of the seats will be available on the day on a 'first come, first served' basis.

If you have a three film sampler membership, you cannot book in advance. You can attend screenings on the ‘first come, first served’ basis for the remaining seats. We will clip your card for each screening you attend. Bring a buddies are not valid.

Your membership must be valid at the time of booking, and also at the time of the screening in June. If you need to renew during this time, make sure you do so via our website - https://wellingtonfilms.nz

You must book through Humanitix using the same name and email as your Wellington Film Society membership, in order to enable cross-referencing.

Places are bookable per film rather than for the whole festival – so you can pick what you want to see.  We’ll be clearing and cleaning the theatre between films so you’ll need to leave, just like between our usual Monday 6 and 8:30 screenings. Seating will be unallocated for all screenings, as normal.

On the day of the screening, we will check both your Humanitix booking via a QR code, and your Film Society membership.

Please be on time, If you are not, we may give your booking away to members who are waiting. Please be seated in the cinema five minutes before the screening time. After that point we do not guarantee your booking is valid.

FILM DETAILS

Polish, horror, mermaid, disco, musical – do we have your attention? Agnieszka Smoczynska’s debut feature The Lure reinterprets The Little Mermaid… and there is absolutely a sting in the tail. 

A pair of carnivorous mermaid sisters, Silver and Golden, are drawn ashore in an alternate 80s Poland to explore the wonders and temptations of life on land. Their tantalizing siren songs and otherworldly aura make them overnight sensations as they play the part of human nightclub singers and dancers in a half-glam, half-decrepit club. One sister falls for a human, and as the bonds of sisterhood are tested, the lines between love and survival get blurred.

Bringing a much needed genre edge to our 80th anniversary celebrations, The Lure has been described by its director as a parallel both to her own upbringing, but also to the experience of immigrants. You wouldn’t necessarily spot those allegories beneath the layers of glitter and glamour, but the tale of female desire speaks (sings?) loud and clear. No matter what you’re in the mood for, the most recent film in our festival programme will make for a raucous, funny, sad, and disgusting Saturday night at the movies. 

“Director Agnieszka Smoczynska concocts a refreshingly leftfield cinematic world that echoes the parallel universes of Yorgos Lanthimos’s films. Unlike Lanthimos, though, Smoczynska more eagerly embraces the light-hearted nonsense of her cine-experiment, and without straining for metaphorical import. The Lure isn’t just a luscious sci-fi mindfuck, but a musical unafraid of its own ridiculousness, with knowingly cheesy lyrics and dance numbers.”- Diego Semerenem, Slant Magazine