PARADISE presents PEPPERMINT SODA

“What are you doing here, honey? You’re not even old enough to know how bad life gets.”

“Obviously, Doctor, you’ve never been a 13-year-old girl.”

-The Virgin Suicides

THIS APRIL: Join us as we venture back to the school girl days- telling tails, biting nails, and all the magic and misery of growing up. The Paradise Presents: PUBERTY BLUES- nine films of girlhood woes that’ll make you wonder if you really want to live forever young.

On April 15th, we'll travel to 1960s France to spend a year in the life of the Weber sisters in Diane Kurys' evocative portrait of the era's political and social unrest. From 1977- it's PEPPERMINT SODA.

In the vein of such classic coming of age films as Francois Truffaut’s The 400 Blows, Diane Kurys’s Peppermint Soda captures a particular moment in the tumultuous life and development of young people. Anne (Eléonore Klarwein) and Frederique (Odile Michel) are sisters entering their teen years in 1963 France, torn between divorced parents and struggling with the confines of their strict school. Along the way, they undergo an awakening both political and romantic. Kurys’s celebrated film revels in the comedy and tragedy of the seemingly mundane, weaving a complex tapestry of everyday existence that also touches on the universal.

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Monday April 15th, 8:30 PM/8 PM Doors

General Admission $12.50 | Student/Senior (with valid ID) $10.00 + HST/eventbrite fees

Door tickets are available for purchase on the day of screening. Refunds can be requested up to 12 hours before the screening. All refunds must be requested and processed through eventbrite.