Algoma International Film Association

Reviews:

Richard Luck, Channel 4 Films: “Wonderfully mounted, Creation successfully dramatises key moments in Darwin's life.”

Tim Evans, Sky Movies: “Amiel has fashioned a quietly compelling story that brightens as a reinvigorated Darwin finds closure and the printing presses can begin rolling.”

Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian: “This gentle, heartfelt and well-acted film about Charles Darwin and his personal agony preceding the 1859 publication of On the Origin of Species does not shy away from the issues -- it personalises them, and places them in a new context.”

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The Algoma International Film Association promotes the viewing and appreciation of films not usually available to the community commercial cinema. We are a member of the Film Circuit, a division of the Toronto International Film Festival. The Toronto International Film Festival Group is a charitable, cultural and educational organization devoted to celebrating excellence in film and the moving image.

Welcome to our 42nd season!
Greetings to our members and friends of film! We are very pleased to be returning to Galaxy Cinema at our usual 7pm Sunday screening time for the winter half of our 2009/2010 season. With the bigger screen and sound comes bigger costs, of course, so please encourage everyone you know to join us for the best in current international cinema. We welcome your support! Our membership fee is $20 & passes are $85. Ticket prices are $6 for members & $8 for non-members.

Creation

Year: 2009
Country: U.K.
Director: Jon Amiel
Leads: Paul Bettany, Jennifer Connelly, Martha West, Jeremy Northam
Genre: Semi-biographical drama
Runtime: 108 min.
Rating: PG-14
Language: English

Written by Darwin’s great-great-grandson Randal Keynes using personal letters and diaries of the Darwin family, Creation takes us inside the life of Charles Darwin (Paul Bettany) in his struggle to come to terms with the death of his daughter Annie in 1851, amidst his love for his deeply religious wife, Emma (Jennifer Connolly). Having returned from his expedition in the Galapagos Islands fifteen years previous and now torn between science and faith, Darwin is yet to compile his findings in “On the Origin of Species”, which will be the foundation for evolutionary biology.