A freezing Sydney winter night and lots of bare legged girls shaking in the cold wind for their art. The show must go on. The Sydney Film Festival opened at the State Theatre with the espionage thriller Hanna starring Saorise Ronan, Cate Blanchett and Eric Bana.
Ronan plays a 16 year old assassin who sets out to bump off Blanchett who plays a cold eyed , orange haired spy and Blanchett tries to do likewise to Ronan..
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| Actor Matt Day & wife Kirsty Thomason |
Meanwhile in downtown Surry Hills
The Seagull opened at the Belvoir Street Theatre with
Judy Davis ,
David Wenham,
Emily Barclay and
Bille Brown. Needless to say, a cast like that received a rousing reception and almost a standing ovation.
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| Maia Thomas* Katherine Hicks * Michelle Vergara Moore * Anya Beyersdorf who star in Black & White & Sex |
The notoriously media shy Davis skipped out the stage door-she refused to give interviews for the play while the rest of the cast joined first nighters for champagne and smoked salmon in the foyer.
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| Film director Gillian Armstrong and daughter Billy |
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| Zoo Lim |
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| actress Sylvia Colloco and husband Richard Roxburgh at The Seagull |
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| Fox Studios boss Kim Williams |
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| Sigrid Thornton & Tom Burstall |
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| Festival director Clare Stuart |
