RSS feed On Sunday, 30th August, Grantchester Meadows turned into a dance floor, which event marked a prologue to the 29th Cambridge Film Festival. The sunset viewing of the musical MAMMA MIA! in Grantchester testified to the wide scope of the entertaining possibilities of cinema and carried, at the same time, an ecological message.
The silent disco screening of the smash hit musical rhapsody on the theme of Abba’s songs was not only entertaining, but it also proved that culture and nature can go together in perfect harmony bringing, at the same time, lots of fun to the audience who could experience film outside a dark cinema room.
The screening of MAMMA MIA!, with the movie soundtrack played by portable radios handed out to the audience in the beginning of the show, turned the film into an actual “beyond – the –screen event” in a natural context.
Having a picnic and singing aloud families and groups of friends actively participated in the plot – telling of this visually flamboyant, exhilarating, warm, candy-sweet musical romantic comedy set on an idyllic Greek island to which shores the “tide washes in”, as a result of a little “conspiracy”, three men (Brosnan, Firth and Skarsgard) – potential fathers to Sophie (Seyfried) who is about to get married and wants her true father to give her away.
The aim of the musical as a genre is to entertain. The screening in the pastoral setting of the Meadows on a purple-sky Sunday night brought the experience of Mamma Mia onto an extraordinary, non – conventional and certainly magical level.
Review by Marta Machala
On Sunday, 30th August, Grantchester Meadows turned into a dance floor, which event marked a prologue to the 29th Cambridge Film Festival. The sunset viewing of the musical Mamma Mia in Grantchester testified to the wide scope of the entertaining possibilities of cinema and carried, at the same time, an ecological message.
The silent disco screening of the smash hit musical rhapsody on the theme of Abba’s songs was not only entertaining, but it also proved that culture and nature can go together in perfect harmony bringing, at the same time, lots of fun to the audience who could experience film outside a dark cinema room.
The screening of Mamma Mia, with the movie soundtrack played by portable radios handed out to the audience in the beginning of the show, turned the film into an actual “beyond – the –screen event” in a natural context.
Having a picnic and singing aloud families and groups of friends actively participated in the plot – telling of this visually flamboyant, exhilarating, warm, candy-sweet musical romantic comedy set on an idyllic Greek island to which shores the “tide washes in”, as a result of a little “conspiracy”, three men (Brosnan, Firth and Skarsgard) – potential fathers to Sophie (Seyfried) who is about to get married and wants her true father to give her away.
The aim of the musical as a genre is to entertain. The screening in the pastoral setting of the Meadows on a purple-sky Sunday night brought the experience of Mamma Mia onto an extraordinary, non – conventional and certainly magical level.
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