Cambridge Film Festival 2010 Brochure

Saturday 18 September, 8.00pm | Monday 20 September, 10.30pm
BRILLIANTLOVE (CFF 18)
Director: Ashley Horner. Starring: Liam Brown, Nancy Trotter Landry,
Michael Hodgson. UK 2010. 97 mins.
From its opening shot Ashley Horner’s second feature exposes
all. Love on screen is rarely this physical, or poetic, or intense.
Manchester (Brown) and Noon (Landry) live out of a garage
happily exploring their feelings for each other with gusto in
some great naturalistic performances. Paradise crashes around
them when Manchester leaves his camera behind at the pub
with some very intimate snaps on the roll. Pornographer Franny
tracks him down and before he knows it Manchester is the latest
hit on the modern art scene. But there’s one problem – he hasn’t
told Noon that she’s the star. Happy to show all BRILLIANTLOVE
dares to follow this logic to the extreme when the deeply
personal goes utterly public.
We hope to welcome director Ashley Horner to the
screening.
Contains sexually explicit content.
Print source: Pinball Films
Saturday 25 September, 8.30pm
THE BUTCHER’S SON (CFF 18)
(LA SOGA)
Director: Josh Crook. Starring: Manny Perez, Denise Quiñones, Paul Calderon.
Dominican Republic 2009. 103 mins. Spanish with English subtitles.
Shot on the very meanest streets of the Dominican Republic,
THE BUTCHER’S SON follows an inexorable arc from innocence
to damnation, based on events from the writer’s own life in
Santiago. The sensitive Luisito realises his fate as a hardened
killer when he witnesses the butchering of his father at the
hands of a deported criminal. The angry young man rebrands
himself as ‘La Soga’, after the noose his father used to lead
pigs to slaughter. He is soon recruited by the Dominican secret
police, who exploit Luisito’s hunger for revenge. Following in
the footsteps of CITY OF GOD, an acknowledged inspiration, this
brutal and spectacular revenger’s tragedy transcends crime
drama with its savage portrayal of Dominican gangland.
Print source: The 7th Floor
Wednesday 22 September, 3.30pm
CELL 211 (18)
(CELDA 211)
Director: Daniel Monzón. Starring: Luis Tosar, Alberto Ammann, Antonio Resines.
Spain/France 2009. 113 mins. Spanish with English subtitles.
Daniel Monzón’s explosive prison drama raked in a whopping
eight awards including Best Picture at the Spanish Goya Awards
in 2009. Trainee prison guard Juan Olivier (Ammann) tours a
high-security facility when he is concussed by a piece of falling
masonry. Before the doctor can be summoned a riot breaks
out – and Juan is abandoned in the empty cell that gives the
film its title. When he awakens, he realises he must pretend to
be a prisoner in order to survive and cultivates a relationship
with the riot leader (Tosar). This claustrophobically-charged
scenario simultaneously criticises the Spanish prison system,
the government and the effects of economic recession, twisting
expectations of the prison genre as it goes.
Print Source: Optimum Releasing
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