The National Gallery will present a quirky and entertaining comedy, ‘Kinky Boots’ (2005) for its Classic Tuesdays programme tomorrow at 6pm at Castellani House, Vlissengen Road, Georgetown.
The film earned a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor in a comedy for one of its two lead actors, Chiwetel Ejiofor, noted both as a leading young British theatrical actor and subsequently as a Hollywood character actor, most recently seen in ‘Salt’, a press release said.
It noted too that ‘Kinky Boots’ is a treat for Emancipation Month that should not be missed. The film’s running time is 1 hour, 47 minutes.
The public is cordially invited to attend and admission is free.
British director Julian Jarrold and cast tell the story of Charlie Price (Joel Edgerton) who has to take over his father’s shoe factory and is challenged both to keep it going and to save his workers’ jobs. When he stumbles onto a flamboyant cross-dressing cabaret singer, he ends up creating shoes for him and his friends, who are thrilled to finally have highly fashionable but comfortable shoes in which to perform.
They collaborate on the design of a special line of boots and shoes, and the entire factory revives and adjusts to their unusual client, working increasingly long hours to fulfill the renewed ambition and grand vision that Charlie develops.
Though challenges and resistance of one sort or another mar the smooth path to hoped for success, changes in attitude gradually take place both at work and in personal lives, and a liberation of sorts takes place, with prejudice, fear or self-doubt lost and self-knowledge and the promise of fulfillment gained.
