Cambridge Film Festival 2010 Brochure
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Friday 17 September, 10.00pm<br />
ENTER THE VOID (18)<br />
Director: Gaspar Noé. Starring: Nathaniel Brown, Paz de la Huerta, Cyril Roy.<br />
France/Germany/Italy 2009. 142 mins. English and Japanese with English subtitles.<br />
Relentlessly challenging to the moral and physical sensibilities,<br />
ENTER THE VOID is a triumph of technological invention that<br />
appeals to the sensual, not to the intellectual. Noé recreates<br />
the overwhelming hyper-reality of a hallucinogenic experience,<br />
sweeping the viewer from life to afterlife on waves of<br />
psychedelia; drawing his palette from the lurid depravity of<br />
the twilight Tokyo underworld. The intoxicating mise-en-scène<br />
works its magic from an almost uninterrupted dedication to<br />
the protagonist’s direct point of view – from shaky handheld<br />
tracking through the streets of Japan, to a spirit world shown<br />
through alienating aerial shots. Grab this opportunity to<br />
experience ENTER THE VOID on the big screen, if you have<br />
the stamina.<br />
Contains strobe effects from the outset.<br />
Print Source: Trinity <strong>Film</strong>ed Entertainment<br />
Thursday 16 September, 10.30pm | Friday 17 September 2.00pm<br />
F (18)<br />
Director: Johannes Roberts. Starring: David Schofield, Eliza Bennett,<br />
Emma Cleasby. UK <strong>2010</strong>. 75 mins.<br />
Daring to hug a hoodie means certain disembowelment in this<br />
tabloid-inspired shocker from the rising star of the UK horror<br />
scene Johannes Roberts. As the college day closes, communal<br />
learning spaces become dark brooding classrooms and<br />
corridors increasingly devoid of human life. Recovering from<br />
a sadistic attack by a former pupil, alcoholic English teacher<br />
Roy Anderson (Schofield) must find the courage to defend staff<br />
and students from the onslaught of a pack of faceless killers.<br />
<strong>Cambridge</strong> local Roberts has been championed by acclaimed<br />
critic Kim Newman as being the man to “rejuvenate the twisted<br />
shrub of British horror”. Taking his cues from ATTACK ON<br />
PRECINCT 13 and time spent teaching at <strong>Cambridge</strong> Regional<br />
College, if anybody knows about the true face of secondary<br />
school education, it’s Roberts.<br />
We hope to welcome director Johannes Roberts to the<br />
screening.<br />
Print source: Optimum Releasing<br />
Thursday 23 September, 9.00pm | Friday 17 September 3.30pm<br />
FAREWELL (CFF 15)<br />
(L’AFFAIRE FAREWELL)<br />
Director: Christian Carion. Starring: Guillaume Canet, Emir Kusturica, Willem<br />
Dafoe. France 2009. 112 mins. English, French and Russian with English subtitles.<br />
Carion brings together a magnificent cast (including Palme<br />
d’Or and Golden Bear winner Emir Kusturica) for this nuanced<br />
thriller, based on a true story. In Cold War Moscow, two years<br />
after the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, a French businessman,<br />
Pierre Froment (Canet) forms a bond with a disenchanted KGB<br />
officer, Grigoriev (Kusturica). Soon Grigoriev starts passing him<br />
information about Soviet spies in the US. As, via Froment, the<br />
information is passed higher and higher up the chain all the way<br />
to the White House, the KGB start to look in deadly earnest for<br />
their leak, and the life of an ordinary man in an extraordinary<br />
position starts to unravel around him.<br />
Print source: The Works<br />
www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk Box Office: 0871 902 5720 17<br />
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