MPavilion  

From January 22 to April 1, 2021, MPavilion and Rooftop Cinema are thrilled to join forces and bring you a program of film screenings that’ll open your mind, expand your horizons and make your spirits soar!

If you want to direct a film about a young woman experiencing the flush of first love as she dies of cancer then you better rinse it free of all the cliché left on it by The Fault in Our Stars, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl and oh so many others going all the way back to Love Story. Director Shannon Murphy took the note when she made Babyteeth with Eliza Scanlen (Little Women) in the lead and Toby Wallace as the rat-tailed and roguish object of her love. Essie Davis and Ben Mendelsohn play her parents. They are – in another break from the genre’s form – deeply realised characters and an important part of what makes this uplifting, heartbreaking debut feature work.