White of the Eye (Cammell, 1987): Prince Charles Cinema, 6.15pm
This is a 35mm presentation.
Time Out review:
Donald Cammell transforms a stalk'n'slash thriller into a complex, cubist
kaleidoscope of themes and images. Paul and Joan White (David Keith and
Cathy Moriarty) lead a happy enough life in a quiet Arizona mining town, until
Paul suddenly finds himself chief suspect in a police investigation of a
series of violently misogynistic murders. Matters are complicated by
the reappearance of Joan's gun-crazy ex-husband (Alan Rosenberg). A
determinedly offbeat murder mystery, delving into dotty Indian mysticism
and throwing up symbols, red herrings, and Steadicam flourishes for the
asking, this nevertheless remains oddly effective. Imbued with a
brooding, oppressive atmosphere and coloured by vivid performances,
though often murkily motivated, it is genuinely nightmarish in its
portrait of relationships where love is blinding and the past casts an
intolerably heavy spell.
Geoff Andrew
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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