$10 (includes GST)

Date:  Thursday 14-Jul-2022
Single session (Ended)
Time 10:00am for 2 hr
Venue: SPLC Room 2
Facilitator: Maria Rueda

Abel is the directorial debut from actor Diego Luna and it tells the story of a troubled ten-year-old child with an undefined personality disorder who takes on the role of his absent father within the family unit. Taking place over one week, when the child''s mother takes her son home from the local hospital in order to try and save him from being transferred to a psychiatric home in Mexico City, the film is a touching meditation on the trials of parenthood and the healing power of compassion. Abel's small, damaged family indulge his patriarchal fantasy and for a moment it seems that things might improve for them all, at least until the children's genuine father reappears on the scene and pushes the film to its nail-biting denouement.