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Movies Showing Nowhere
by Yorick Goldewijk
Age Range: 12+
On the day Cate came into the world, her mum left it. Cate’s dad is distant and silent and they rarely share more than a few words, so she keeps herself entertained with kung fu films, her pet rabbit Beggar So and her photography. Then one afternoon Cate discovers a business card on the piano printed in shocking pink letters on a bright yellow card with the words:
“Mrs Kano’s Cinema
Movies showing Nowhere!
Films you won’t find anywhere else!
Films you’ve always wanted to see!”
Cate realises the address on the card is for the Lux, an old abandoned cinema in town. Intrigued Cate decides to investigate. Entering the dilapidated cinema she meets the strange Mrs Kano and is drawn into a wonder-filled adventure through time. Cate is introduced to a most unusual kind of movie screen – the kind that lets you step through it into a memory from a photograph.
On her time-travel journeys Cate meets ‘Tubs’ a young boy her age who calls her ‘Socks’ and loves the computer game Mortal Kombat Kung Fu; accompanies Cornelia, her dad’s cleaner into a painful memory and finally finds the answers she needs about her mum when she steps into a photographic memory of her own. Through these experiences, Cate can learn the true meaning of love, loss and learning to let go.
Yorick Goldewijk is a Dutch author and illustrator, as well as a musician who writes music for films, television and computer games. This story, translated by Laura Watkinson, is original and different from many other time-travel fantasy novels with its unusual concept of a photograph becoming a cinematic reel of memory. It also combines light humour, adventure and the powerful emotions of loss and grief.
Winner of the Golden Pencil Prize for the best Dutch children’s book of the year, Movies Showing Nowhere is a stunning novel.