JAMESON DUBLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

JAMESON DUBLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2014
SATURDAY 15TH FEBRUARY
MISS VIOLENCE
Opening with the inexplicable suicide of eleven-yearold
Angeliki in the middle of her own birthday party,
it’s plain to see that Miss Violence demands of its
viewers a certain threshold of pain. Yet if Angeliki’s
seemingly typical middle-class Greek family bears
any emotional wounds from this harrowing loss,
these are certainly not on public display. On the
contrary, her single mother, grandparents and
siblings present a perfectly composed front. And
Child Protective Services are beginning to wonder…
With his second feature, Alexandros Avranas creates
a tastefully austere, colour-co-ordinated universe,
where everything is ordered and nothing is what it
seems. Upon closer inspection, the film’s subdued
palette can be interpreted as a visual metaphor for
submission, as the deceptively placid paterfamilias
can slip from gentle protector to tormentor, causing
all colour to drain from his household.
Sat 15 Feb / Cineworld 12 / 8.30pm / 99 minutes
Director: Alexandros Avranas 2013 Greece
Writers: Alexandros Avranas, Kostas Peroulis
Cast: Kostas Antalopoulos, Constantinos Athanasiades, Chloe Bolota
Winner, Best Director & Best Actor, Venice International Film Festival
Set up as a carefully constructed series of episodes in
which the family’s history is gradually revealed, Miss
Violence is a domestic coup d’état waiting to happen.
From the script to the acting, Miss Violence
is precision film-making at its best.
Dimitri Epides
Toronto International Film Festival
STRANGER BY THE LAKE
L’INCONNU DU LAC
One of the most talked about and lauded films at
Cannes 2013, Stranger by the Lake is an intoxicating
account of one heathen summer by a French lake,
populated by men, gay and straight, dressed and
undressed, hunter and prey.
Franck is a gay man who frequents the lake,
popular with nudists and men cruising for sex in
the surrounding forests, and comes to know Michel,
to whom he is dangerously and foolishly attracted.
When given good reason to stay away from him,
Franck chooses not to and walks into a deadly game
of cat and mouse.
‘an absorbing and intelligent exploration of queer desire’
Variety
Sat 15 Feb / Light House 1 / 9pm / 92 minutes
Writer-director: Alain Guiraudie 2013 France
Cast: Pierre Deladonchamps, Christophe Paou, Patrick d’Assumçao
Winner, Best Director, Un Certain Regard, Cannes Film Festival
With the support of the French Embassy in Ireland
The film presents us with a tight examination of
masculinity and homosexuality, where the nebulous
urges in men sometimes manifest themselves as
sexual passion and other times as murderous rage.
A masterpiece of carefully constructed narrative and
concentrated visual storytelling, electric with tension,
desire and danger and featuring graphic unsimulated
gay sex, Stranger by the Lake is a fine example of
both new French cinema and queer cinema.
David Mullane
With special guest Alain Guiraudie
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