The Victoria Independent Film & Video Festival aims to keep the festival front and centre in the city’s mind by offering a monthly screening all year round. The Festival has teamed up with the Odeon Theatre to bring back the best films from festivals past. On the second Wednesday of each month Victoria, audiences will have the opportunity to see some of the most popular films we’ve screened.

Pousse Café

Directed by Susan Winter (USA1998)
Wednesday, January 11, 2006
7:15 PM at the Odeon Theatre

A cocktail comedy about a modern-day aristocratic father-son relationship on the rocks, figuratively and literally!

The winner of the Best Picture at the 1998 Victoria Independent Film & Video Festival.

Pousse Café takes a darkly humorous look at contemporary family relations and celebrates the cocktail, as it personifies the American Dream. Alcohol helps bring a family together (there's a switch!) in this independent comedy drama. Rex is a successful game show producer who has fallen into a depression since his wife Claire left him to take up with a fisherman. Eager to win her back, Rex persuades his estranged son Gerald  to pay a visit, hoping that a family reunion might soften her heart. Gerald, a flamboyantly gay performance artist, joins his dad as Rex does research for an upcoming book on mixing cocktails. Father and son struggle to settle their differences as Rex attempts to master a complicated multi-layered drink, the Pousse Cafe.

Pousse Café is an artful, original comedy which stands out for its highly literate dialogue, richly shot sequences and carefully wrought symbolism.

The IndieScreen Monthly Movie series runs every 2nd Wednesday of the month from March to Janaury starting at 7:15 PM at the Odeon Theatre, 780 Yates Street.
All tickets $5.00

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Penny Murray
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