Book Club: Trainspotting + Discussion R 18+

A montage of five young people: a smoking man holding up two fingers, a woman sneering, a man pointing his fingers like a gun, a man wearing glasses and smiling and a man in a tight t-shirt dripping with water and hugging himself
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17 November
1:00pm
Arc Cinema
$20/$18
Dir: Danny Boyle, R 18+, United Kingdom, 1996, 94mins, DCP,

A cult classic and the debut novel from Scottish author Irvine Welsh, Trainspotting takes readers into the gritty, riotous world of the Edinburgh drug scene through a series of short stories told from the perspectives of its anti-heroes.  

Ewan McGregor stars as Renton in Danny Boyle’s film adaptation, a young man who attempts to get clean amidst a motley crew of apathetic, heroin-addicted ‘friends’

While Trainspotting sparked some controversy around its portrayal of drug use, it was largely applauded by critics and audiences alike, and ranks among the top British films. 

‘Supercharged with sulphurous humour and brutal recklessness’ – The Guardian  

The screening will be followed by a discussion of the film and the novel with author Bram Presser, moderated by Canberra Writers Festival Artistic Director Beejay Silcox. 

 

BRAM PRESSER 

Bram Presser is a semi-reformed punk rocker, recovering academic and lapsed lawyer. His novel The Book of Dirt won the National Jewish Book Award for Debut Fiction (USA), the Voss Prize and three categories at the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards. In his spare time, Bram dads, reads, reviews, blogs, plays video games and judges the odd literary prize. Or, to borrow from Trainspotting's Renton, Bram chooses life.

 

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