Loren Taylor’s cinema career started in a cinema. After the 17-year-old arrived in Wellington from Palmerston North to start a soon-to-bloom acting career, she also wielded a torch as an usher at the Penthouse Cinema in Brooklyn. There, she remembers, one of the many films she saw many times was Before the Rain, Macedonian director Milcho Manchevski’s 1994 acclaimed debut film of three seemingly disconnected stories. She loved it. Still does.
Tonight, nearly 30 years later, after a working day that starts with a chat to the Listener in which the Manchevski film comes up, she’ll be back at the Penthouse.
She’s seeing another acclaimed film of
