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FRIDAY 15 NOVEMBER
USA 94 mins 2019
Photo: Christopher Messina
FOURTEEN
Dan Sallitt
21:15 | GATE NARRATIVE
Mara (Tallie Medel) is an aspiring writer, has found a job she likes working with pre-school kids, and is actively looking for a relationship. Her best friend Jo (Norma Kuhling) is flaky and wayward, always ready to exploit the safety net Mara’s friendship provides for her. Their long-standing relationship is tested as their lives seem set on differing courses. Respected critic and cinephile Dan Sallitt has crafted a rare, affecting portrait of a spiky female friendship that is evocatively filmed in its Brooklyn locales, peppered with punchy dialogue, beautifully acted and emotionally honest. MH
Official Selection, Forum, Berlin International Film Festival, 2019
ATLANTIS
Valentyn Vasyanovych
21:15 | GATE NARRATIVE
Set six years in the future, following a brutal war in which the Ukraine has been reduced to a barren wasteland, Atlantis follows former soldier Serhiy, who works as a smelter whilst struggling to cope with life outside of the warzone, his PTSD making it impossible for him to adjust. Following the closure of the smelting factory, Serhiy comes into contact with Katya, a volunteer dedicated to exhuming the corpses
of war victims. Shot with stunning precision cinematography by the director himself, Valentyn Vasyanovych’s tale of self-discovery proves that warmth can come from the bleakest of places. SE
Official Selection, Venice Film Festival, 2019
Ukraine 108 mins 2019 Subtitled
Second Chance Sun 17 Nov | 14:15 | Gate
TETSUO: THE IRON MAN
Shinya Tsukamoto
23:00 | TRISKEL
CLASSIC
Japan 67 mins 1989 Subtitled
In 1989, a film exploded out of Japan and changed the face of both the cyberpunk and body horror genres forever. Shot in black and white on grainy 16mm and on a minuscule budget, Tetsuo: The Iron Man
tells the story of a salaryman, cursed by a metal fetishist following a road accident, who begins to find pieces of iron sprouting from his body. Directed by the singular Shinya Tsukamoto, who also stars as the masochistic fetishist, the film spawned two sequels, but the intensity of the original has never been matched. 30 years later, it still packs a ferocious, iron-fisted punch unlike anything else before or since. SE
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