Art House Dallas & Violet Crown Cinema Present a Special Screening of

Wildcat

 2025 will mark the 100th anniversary of Flannery O’Connor’s birth, and to commemorate her legacy we will be hosting a special screening of Wildcat, the Flannery O’Conner biopic directed by Ethan Hawke and starring Maya Hawke.

In conjunction with our ORIGIN program, which features the work of Flannery O’Connor in this year’s reader, we will enjoy the movie together and then afterward will have a discussion about O’Connor’s complicated life, work, and legacy. For more information about Flannery O’Connor’s life and work, click here.

Details
Date: Thursday, April 24, 2025
Time: 7 pm to 10 pm CST
Location: Violet Crown Cinema Dallas | 3699 McKinney Ave
Ticket Required

About the Film:
Directed and co-written by four-time Academy Award nominee Ethan Hawke, WILDCAT invites the audience to weave in and out of celebrated Southern Gothic writer Flannery O'Connor's mind as she ponders the great questions of her writing: Can scandalous art still serve God? Does suffering precede all greatness? Can illness be a blessing?

In 1950, Flannery (Maya Hawke) visits her mother Regina (Laura Linney) in Georgia when she is diagnosed with lupus at twenty-four years old. Struggling with the same disease that took her father's life when she was a child and desperate to make her mark as a great writer, this crisis pitches her imagination into a feverish exploration of belief. As she dives deeper into her craft, the lines between reality, imagination, and faith begin to blur, allowing Flannery to ultimately come to peace with her situation and heal a strained relationship with her mother.

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