Cambridge Film Festival 2010 Brochure
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Monday 20 September, 8.30pm<br />
THE HUNTER (15)<br />
(SHEKARCHI)<br />
Director: Rafi Pitts. Starring: Rafi Pitts, Mitra Hajjar, Ali Nicksaulat. Iran <strong>2010</strong>. 92<br />
mins. Farsi with English subtitles.<br />
Iranian director Rafi Pitts cements his reputation from IT’S<br />
WINTER with this drama-cum-thriller targeted squarely at Iran’s<br />
rulers. Recently released from prison, Ali (Pitts) works the night<br />
shift as a security guard in Tehran, relishing his time with his<br />
wife Sara and six-year-old daughter. Against the backdrop of<br />
the tumultuous recent elections, the pressures upon Ali become<br />
unbearable as his wife is accidentally killed and his daughter<br />
disappears. Losing it, he snaps and shoots two policemen.<br />
Fleeing to the northern forest he is captured by two police<br />
officers. Resigned to his fate, Ali watches quietly as the arguing<br />
policemen lose their way in the woods. Situations complicate<br />
and the line between hunter and hunted becomes difficult to<br />
define...<br />
Print Source: Artificial Eye<br />
TBC<br />
IF I WANT TO WHISTLE<br />
I WHISTLE (15)<br />
(EU CĂND VREAU SĂ FLUIER,<br />
FLUIER)<br />
Director: Florin erban. Starring: George Pi tereanu, Ada Condeescu, Clara Vodă.<br />
Romania <strong>2010</strong>. 94 mins. Romanian with English subtitles.<br />
Raw acting talent pulses through this latest addition to the<br />
Romanian new wave. Adapted from a stage play by author<br />
Andreea Vălean, non-professional actor George Pi tereanu<br />
crackles with energy as a desperate young offender on the run.<br />
Just days from release and panicking about his brother, Silviu<br />
(Pi tereanu), a young delinquent, erupts. Kidnapping a pretty<br />
social worker Ana (Condeescu) he absconds from the detention<br />
centre. Once outside he gets his first taste of freedom: the open<br />
road, his first kiss – everything and anything seems possible.<br />
Fresh out of a Bucharest high school Pi tereanu was chosen<br />
after six months of auditions, along with a number of young<br />
offenders who were also cast.<br />
Print source: Artificial Eye<br />
Saturday 25 September, 6.30pm<br />
THE MESSENGER (CFF 15)<br />
Director: Oren Moverman. Starring: Ben Foster, Woody Harrelson, Samantha<br />
Morton. USA 2009. 112 mins.<br />
A powerful exploration of the effects of war on its casualties,<br />
and on those who are left behind. Foster stars as Will<br />
Montgomery, a US Army Staff Sergeant re-assigned after<br />
injury to the Casualty Notification Team. Partnered with an<br />
experienced hand, Capt. Tony Stone (Harrelson), Montgomery<br />
learns the delicate business of telling families that their loved<br />
ones have died on duty. After he delivers the news of her<br />
husband’s death to one particular woman, Olivia (Morton), he<br />
finds himself losing his emotional detachment, as he feels<br />
ever-increasingly drawn to her in her grief. Extraordinary<br />
performances make this Oscar-nominated drama an unflinching<br />
examination of grief and loss, laying bare the inner struggles of<br />
men and women so often expected to hide them.<br />
Print source: The Works<br />
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