JAMESON DUBLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

WEDNESDAY 19TH FEBRUARY
JAMESON DUBLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL 2014
UNDER THE SKIN
Bones, nerves, blood and meat: we are all made of
the same stuff underneath. Jonathan Glazer’s Under
the Skin presents us with a person who isn’t. The film
is certainly divisive: but would you expect anything
else from an almost wordless science-fiction thriller
in which Scarlett Johansson plays an alien who lures
lonely and/or horny Glaswegians into her van and
turns them into Scotch broth?
‘a tour de force of sensual and sensory film-making’
Variety
Wed 19 Feb / Cineworld 9 / 8.45pm / 107 minutes
Director: Jonathan Glazer 2013 UK
Writer: Walter Campbell
Cast: Scarlett Johansson, Paul Brannigan
Johansson is nothing short of iconic here; her
character is a classic femme fatale in the film noir
tradition, down to the plump red lips and deep fur
coat, but with a refrigerated nothingness at her core.
She looks at her fellow cast members as if they are
from another planet – which is, of course, exactly as
it should be. Even the Scottish landscape looks alien:
dawn mist rolls across lochs like curls of space dust.
Glazer’s astonishing film takes you to a place where
the everyday becomes suddenly strange, and fear
and seduction become one and the same. You stare
at the screen, at once entranced and terrified, and
step forward into the slick.
Robbie Collin
The Telegraph
With special guest Jonathan Glazer
NORDVEST
Michael Noer’s first film was the acclaimed 2010
prison drama R (co-directed with Tobias Lindholm,
who appeared at JDIFF 2013), and while Nordvest
shares some of that film’s fascination with young men
and violence, it is also a convincing crime drama.
‘a compelling portrait of a young man whose moral
compass is skewed but not broken’ Variety
Wed 19 Feb / Light House 2 / 9pm / 100 minutes
Director: Michael Noer 2013 Denmark
Writers: Michael Noer, Rasmus Heisterberg
Cast: Gustav Dyekjær Giese, Oscar Dyekjær Giese, Nicholas Westwood Kidd
Eighteen-year-old Caspar (Gustav Dyekjær Giese)
is a burglar whose stolen items are sold by tough
immigrant traders. Caspar sees the chance of a
bigger pay day when he is approached by tough
older gangster Björn (the impressive Roland Møller)
to steal a few specific items. Making big money for
the first time Caspar pampers his family, but makes
the mistake of annoying the immigrant gang who
assume he is ‘their’ man. With his life spiralling out of
control, Caspar is faced with some tough decisions.
Noer co-wrote the script with Rasmus Heisterberg,
who wrote the Oscar-nominated A Royal Affair (JDIFF
2013), and turned to two real-life brothers in the leads,
Gustav Dyekjær Giese and Oscar Dyekjær Giese.
Noer films in an appropriately gritty and intense style,
drawing out the sense of community in Nordvest and
layering in moments of humour.
Mark Adams
Screen International
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