Cambridge Film Festival 2010 Brochure
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Wednesday 22 September, 10.30pm<br />
PELICAN BLOOD (CFF 15)<br />
Director: Karl Golden. Starring: Harry Treadaway, Emma Booth, Arthur Darvill.<br />
UK <strong>2010</strong>. 99 mins.<br />
Imagine a doomed romance like Sid and Nancy and add a little<br />
birdwatching! Rising UK star Harry Treadaway (FISH TANK) stars<br />
in PELICAN BLOOD: the story of Nikko the recent survivor of a<br />
disastrous suicide attempt following a break-up with Stevie (Booth).<br />
But just as Nikko determines to ‘end it all’ after ticking off his 500th<br />
rare bird, Stevie returns and their sexually charged, hyper-intense<br />
and fairly disturbing relationship resumes, throwing his plans into<br />
chaos. Directed by Karl Golden (THE HONEYMOONERS), the film is a<br />
black comedy that examines love, life and the dangers of obsession.<br />
Never before has the world of twitchers seemed so youthful as in<br />
this tale of sex and violence, based on a novel by Cris Freddi.<br />
Print source: Icon<br />
SHOWING WITH: WHEN THE<br />
HURLYBURLY’S DONE<br />
Director: Hanna Maria Heidrich, Alex Eslam. Germany <strong>2010</strong>. 13 mins.<br />
Jacob must choose his love or his life when Gwynn lies bleeding<br />
in his arms.<br />
Friday 17 September, 6.00pm<br />
POLICE, ADJECTIVE (12A)<br />
(POLITIST, ADJECTIV)<br />
Director: Corneliu Porumboiu. Starring: Dragos Bucur, Vlad Ivanov, Ion Stoica.<br />
Romania 2009. 110 mins. Romanian with English subtitles.<br />
The playful POLICE, ADJECTIVE presents a slow and steady story<br />
of surveillance and sesquipedalias* set in the Romanian town<br />
of Vaslui. A martyr to the bureaucratic pettiness of low-level<br />
police administration, unassuming undercover cop Cristi (Bucur)<br />
is assigned to investigate a suspected schoolboy hash dealer.<br />
Unable to countenance the incarceration of a harmless young<br />
boy, Cristi battles against his officious superiors with his own<br />
brand of pedantry. Verbal sparring and subtle performances<br />
bring colour and shape to the grey inertia of Cristi’s bleak<br />
little world. Winner of the Un Certain Regard Jury Prize at the<br />
2009 Cannes <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong>, the slow burning POLICE, ADJECTIVE<br />
brings conscience to the crime scene, and makes an art form of<br />
attention to detail.<br />
* sesquipedalian = a very long word<br />
Print source: Artificial Eye<br />
Thursday 23 September, 3.00pm |<br />
Saturday 25 September, 12.30pm<br />
REVERSE (CFF 15)<br />
(REWERS)<br />
Director: Borys Lankosz. Starring: Agata Buzek, Krystyna Janda, Anna Polony.<br />
Poland 2009. 101 mins.<br />
Deftly defying expectations, REVERSE recounts a tale from<br />
the height of the Stalinist terror in communist Poland from<br />
the perspective of three generations of women. When Sabina<br />
(Buzek) turns thirty her mother and grandmother struggle<br />
to find her a husband. After much merriment with unsuitable<br />
matches she eventually meets a handsome stranger by<br />
accident. But when the horrors of living in a police state<br />
intrude upon their lives the plot diverts into much darker<br />
territory in tune with the times. Shooting mostly in black and<br />
white, documentary maker Borys Lankosz steps into fictional<br />
filmmaking with finesse, recreating 1950s Warsaw convincingly.<br />
Polish audiences took to REVERSE in a big way helping it to<br />
sweep the board at the Polish <strong>Film</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> in 2009 and putting<br />
it forward as Poland’s entry to the Oscars.<br />
Print source: Studio <strong>Film</strong>owe Kadr<br />
www.cambridgefilmfestival.org.uk Box Office: 0871 902 5720 21<br />
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