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Directed by Pierre Clémenti | 84 minutes | 18+ | Australian Premiere |
6:00pm Friday, 15 May | Balam Balam Place - Cinema 2 | Buy Tickets | Buy Passes
Vanish into the saliva of the night with this ever-relevant 80s leftist classic of the French underground canon by Pierre Clementi
French actor Pierre Clémenti was best know for his work with European auteurs like Luis Buñuel and Bernardo Bertolucci, but he was also a significant force in underground cinema as a defiantly leftist experimental filmmaker. Informed and inspired by his radicalising 17 months in prison for drug possession, Clémenti's In the Shadow of the Blue Rascal rages against the so-called democratic state’s authoritarian violence in plot and style.
It’s heavy night in Necrocity, sometime after a failed revolution. State-sanctioned gangs stalk the streets to kill the remaining revolutionaries. But nobody’s safe from the state’s bootheel. The Necrocity of 1986 could be any city today besieged by fascists loud and quiet, and the movie stumbles through its slippery noir story with disorienting editing, industrial soundtrack, and suffocating neon mood. Its melodious hardboiled dialogue still crackles electric 40 years after its release. Vital punk cinema!
SIMILAR: Kenneth Anger, The Third Man, Story of a Junkie, No Country for Old Men, Samuel R Delany
“Clementi is one of my great personal heroes and a total role model for other artists if there ever was one.” - Dennis Cooper, Author of The Sluts and Frisk
“80 minutes in Cool Hell.” - Dok, Letterboxd
CONTENT WARNING: Sexual Violence
Country: France
Year: 1986
Language: French