Martin Scorsese's HUGO to be Screened and Discussed at Rockland Library Feb. 28‏

Rockland, Maine - A Screening and Discussion of the film Hugo on Thursday February 28 at 6:30 PM. Post-Film Discussion by Bill Halpin & Saskia Huising.

Hugo is directed by Academy Award Winner Martin Scorsese and based on Brian Selznick's imaginative New York Times best-seller, The Invention of Hugo Cabret.  Set in Paris, in the 1930s, the film follows a young orphan, Hugo Cabret, who lives behind the clocks in the railway station Gare Montparnasse. The young boy attempts to rebuild an automaton (a gear-based robot) that his father was fixing at the time of his death. This leads Hugo to an old man who works in the railway station whose past seems mysteriously linked to the machine the boy is working on. Hugo is not really a children's film, rather, it's a layered, immensely textured motion picture about the nature of cinema, the power of innovation and invention, and the unbridled spirit within our own lives.                                                                                                      

“One of the year's very best, Hugo is a rousing, moving, poignant tale being told on many more levels than what is seen on screen” – R. L. Shaffer, IGN    
                                                                               
Special accommodations for persons with disabilities can be made with 48 hours notice. Please call the Library at 594-0310.