Sonja Harter presents Candy

Writer Sonja Harter presents Candy (with Heath Ledger), a film based on Australian writer Luke Davies’s novel of the same name. A sensitive poet falls in love with two kinds of Candy – a young art student of that name, and heroin. Attracted by the bohemian lifestyle, Candy throws herself into Dan’s arms, and heroin addiction as well. A great love affair is on its way downhill.

The film tracks the couple’s relationship in three phases, called Heaven, Earth and Hell. Their mood fluctuates between ecstasy, oblivion, self-destruction and despair. The incidents that go with addiction are recorded in the smallest detail, from the use of needles to the uncertainties of hunting for dope. The parents of the junkies accept the circumstances in silence, while the two youngsters deny they have problems and create a world of their own.
Drama, Australia, 2006, director Neil Armfield, approx. 105 mins, English with German subtitles.

Sonja Harter Sonja Harter
Born in Graz in 1903, now lives in Vienna. She has been published since 2001, in literary periodicals (including Manuskripte, Lichtungen, kolik), anthologies (Jahrbuch der Lyrik, S. Fischer; Lyrik von JETZT zwei, Berlin Verlag; Stimmenfang, Residenz) and on ORF Radio. Her book of poetry barfuß richtung festland appeared in 2005, followed in 2008 by einstichspuren, himmel. (both Leykam).
Prizes and scholarships: City of Graz literary promise award 2003, City of Graz literary scholarship 2005, Frauen.Kunst.Preis (women’s art prize) 2006. Sonja Harter works as culture editor at APA – Austria Presse Agentur.
 

my own private cinema
... is an unusual film series. The Kunsthaus Graz regularly invites someone with passion and great enthusiasm for film as a medium to present a personal favourite film. For the public, this is a chance to see a film through the eyes of someone for whom the film is something special. On the way, unexpected light is thrown on genres, subject matter, individual interests and perspectives. In co-operation with KIZ RoyalKino.

Entrance free

Start: 7 p.m.