Page 26 - Cork Film Festival 2019 Brochure

FRIDAY 8 NOVEMBER
USA 111 mins 2019
Second Chance Thu 14 Nov | 15:15 | Gate
KNIVES AND SKIN
Jennifer Reeder
20:45 | GATE NARRATIVE
Knives and Skin is a weird and wonderful contemporary noir presenting a strange, spooky and surrealist take on Americana and small-town eccentricities. In the aftermath of the disappearance
of a local teen, the community deals with her loss in progressively bizarre and curious ways. With clear nods to Lynchian macabre, their coping mechanisms manifest in an increasingly absurdist manner as the mystery unravels. In this highly constructed world, every detail is intricately composed and every oddity savoured. A truly compelling feature, which revels in its own idiosyncrasies, this is cinema at its most uncompromising and distinctive. RG
Official Selection, Berlin International Film Festival, 2019
JESUS SHOWS YOU THE WAY TO THE HIGHWAY
Miguel Llansó
21:00 | GATE
NARRATIVE
Spain, Estonia, Ethiopia, Latvia, Romania, UK
CIA agents DT Gagano (Daniel Tadesse) and Palmer Eldrich (Augustín Mateo) are dispatched on a VR mission to destroy a computer virus named ‘Soviet Union’. But when the virus is revealed to be a trap and Gagano gets stuck in the virtual world, things really begin to unravel! Shot in Spain, Ethiopia and Estonia, and with influences spanning ’80s computer games and stop-motion animation through to the kung fu action films of Africa, Miguel Llansó’s sci-fi cold war action thriller is
a gloriously wild, retro-futurist ride through cult genre cinema and beyond. It’s quite unlike anything you will see this year. SE
Winner, Neuchatel International Fantastic Film Festival, 2019 There will be a post-screening Q&A with the director.
FIRST LOVE
(HATSUKOI)
Takashi Miike
22:30 | TRISKEL NARRATIVE
A new film from Japanese auteur Takashi Miike (Audition, Ichi the Killer) is always a cause for celebration, and for his 103rd film this is certainly the case. Essentially a very unconventional love story, First Love tells of Leo, a young boxer who discovers he has an inoperable brain tumour. Determined to perform a final good deed, Leo helps
a young woman named Yuri and unwittingly plunges into a world of corrupt cops, prostitution, drug deals and Japanese/Chinese gang rivalry. Employing Miike’s trademark high-octane filmmaking, and being both hilariously dark and ultraviolent, First Love is a hypervelocity joy to behold. SE
Official Selection, Cannes Film Festival, 2019
2019
83 mins + Q&A
Japan, UK
2019
Photo: © 2019 FIRST LOVE Production Committee
108 mins
Subtitled
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Second Chance Mon 11 Nov | 13:15 | Triskel