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Coming to the Piedmont March 19 & 20: THE NEVERENDING STORY |
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Written by Jesse Coombs
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 With an additional sunday 10 am matinee!
The world of Fantasia is threatened by an unstoppable force of darkness called "The Nothing" and only a shy boy named Bastian can stop it!
Wolfgang Peterson's The NeverEnding Story is more than a kids' movie, although kids love it. It's also more than a cult classic. It is simply one of the best true fantasy masterpieces of the eighties, alongside The Dark Crystal and Time Bandits. This loose adaptation of Michael Ende's novel has amazing visuals, great puppet work, great character designs, and most importantly, a gripping, taut story.
 Young Bastian is our window into the world of Fantasia. Hiding in his school's attic, as he reads the book The Neverending Story, he is drawn into the adventure - and so are we. We meet Atreyu and his loyal horse Artax, the stone-eating Rock Biter, and of course Falkor the Luck-dragon. We travel through the Swamps of Sadness, the Magic Mirror Gate, and many other places with Atreyu and Bastian to save the Child-Like Empress and all of Fantasia.
But wait, what can Bastian do? It's only a book, right? |
