Treachery:
Cheaters, liars, tricksters and traitors
issue sixty-three Treachery is this month’s theme: we have reviews of
True Love, a thriller that explores the dangerous consequences of lying to your spouse, and
Extracted, a cerebral puzzler that explores the truths and lies we tell ourselves, both screening at SCI-FI-LONDON, Vincente Minelli’s take on glamorous betrayal in Hollywood
The Bad and the Beautiful, Australian tale of scapegoats in the Boer War
Breaker Morant and high-octane Welsh-directed Indonesian martial arts actioner
The Raid, which is released this month.
We have articles on Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s theatre of treachery from All about Eve to Cleopatra, manly betrayal in Westerns and the treachery of memory in Blade Runner. In Alter Ego, Elizabeth Wilson is Wicked Lady Margaret Lockwood while Reel Sounds delves into Roman Polanski’s Macbeth.
At the cinema we look at Marcel Carné poetic realist classic Le quai des brumes, She Monkeys, a Swedish debut about two young women’s competitive friendship set in the world of equestrian acrobatics, and dark sci-fi drama Clone, starring Eva Green, which screens at SCI-FI-LONDON. Hammer thriller The Plague of the Zombies is the subject of our Comic Strip Review. ■
The End: An Electric Sheep Anthology
The End: An Electric Sheep Anthology (Strange Attractor Press) brings together Bill Morrison’s chemical ghosts, 50s bad girls, apocalyptic evangelical cinema, Spanish zombies, Japanese nihilists and David Lynch’s soundtracks of decay. 'Superb - a masterly accomplishment. Beautifully produced - and its content and vision could not be more accurate and timely.' - Peter Whitehead. Read the reviews.
Treachery: We have reviews of True Love, a thriller that explores the dangerous consequences of lying to your spouse, and Extracted, a cerebral puzzler that explores the truths and lies we tell ourselves, both screening at SCI-FI-LONDON, Vincente Minelli’s take on glamorous betrayal in Hollywood The Bad and the Beautiful, Australian tale of scapegoats in the Boer War Breaker Morant and high-octane Welsh-directed Indonesian martial arts actioner The Raid, which is released this month. We have articles on Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s theatre of treachery from All about Eve to Cleopatra, manly betrayal in Westerns and the treachery of memory in Blade Runner. In Alter Ego, Elizabeth Wilson is Wicked Lady Margaret Lockwood while Reel Sounds delves into Roman Polanski’s Macbeth.
True Love:: In an interview recorded at SCI-FI-LONDON, Virginie Sélavy talks to the makers of sci-fi drama True Love, about a young married couple who find themselves locked in separate sealed rooms and forced to answer questions about how much they trust each other. Writer-producer Fabio Guaglione and director Enrico Clerico Nasino discuss trust and betrayal, using genre to analyse a romantic relationship, and other ‘locked room’ films, including Vincenzo Natali’s Cube (1997).
Win a pair of tickets to a film of your choice (subject to availability) in the later part of the Jean Gabin season (May 18-31) at BFI Southbank, London, courtesy of the BFI. Jean Gabin is one of the most celebrated French stars, starting out as a doomed working-class hero in 1930s fatalistic poetic-realist dramas and returning to the screen in the later part of his career as a grizzled underworld godfather.
