Monday, 23 January 2012

Looking Good for Thrill Seekers at Keswick


This year’s selection of the best from recent film festivals around the world features four cracking contemporary thrillers.  Cell 211 (Friday 17.30) from Spain is a claustrophobic prison drama with an award winning performance by Louis Toser as the leader of a prisoner’s revolt.  

For fast pacing and uninhibited screen violence try Yellow Sea (Friday 20.30) from South Korea.  Is Phillip French’s observation ‘one of the bloodiest movies I’ve ever seen’ a recommendation or a warning!?  

And for the final film on Sunday will you choose Carancho (TbtL) or Babycall (Alhambra)?  From Argentina, Carancho, pitches an emotional love story against the background of commercial exploitation of injury and death from car accidents while the Norwegian Babycall engages us in a psychological dilemma: ‘how far would you go for the ones you love?’

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