So Leeds International Film Festival is heading into it’s final week. Have you been to see lots of great stuff? Did you manage to check out any of the recommendations we featured? We want to know!
So head over to our twitter and let us know what has been the highlight of the festival for you to date and you could win a pair of tickets to one of these little beauties:
Ander
Monday 16th November, Vue, 16.00
Surprising, sensitive, strong, and a really great experience to have. Set in Catalunya amidst the mountains, Anders lives in his familial homestead and is supposedly the head of the family (though his austere mother really runs the show). When a Peruvian farmhand is taken on to help while Anders recovers from an injury, things take surprising and moving turns and a very different form of healing takes place. Wonderfully understated acting makes this a must-see for all admirers of subtlety. Prepare to be impressed!
Can Go Through Skin
Monday 16th November, Vue, 20.30
In a brilliantly original debut feature by Dutch shorts director Esther Rots, a traumatic experience radically changes confident, vivacious Marieke’s life. She retreats from her familiar urban life to self-imposed solitude in a dilapidated house in the Zeeland countryside. With radical use of handheld camera techniques, innovative editing and sound and an intense, unforgettable central performance by Rifka Lodeizen, Can Go Through Skin evokes the horrors of a psychological breakdown and a painstaking and determined journey to recovery.
The Sounds of Insects – Record of a Mummy
Tuesday 17th November, Hyde Park Picture House, 19.00
The incredible story of how the mummified corpse of a 40 year old man was discovered by a hunter in one of the most remote parts of the country. The dead man’s detailed notes reveal that he actually committed suicide through self-imposed starvation only the summer before. Liechti’s film is a stunning rapprochement of a fictional text, which itself is based upon a true event: a cinematic manifesto for life, challenged by the main character’s radical renunciation of life itself. Based on a novel by Shimada Masahiko, according to a true story.
Trash Humpers
Thursday 19th November, Hyde Park Picture House, 22.00
Provocative director Harmony Korine (Gummo, Julien Donkey Boy, Mister Lonely) returns with Trash Humpers, a strange and anarchic tale of a psychotic suburban family shot on lo-fi video in the style of cinema verite documentary. Sporting creepy old-folks masks and indulging in deranged and destructive behaviour, the ‘trash humpers’ (the title is disturbingly literal) provide a gleefully subversive counterpart to cult bad taste classics like John Water’s infamous Pink Flamingoes,, except for the song-and-dance numbers.
Winners will be picked and random and informed through their twitter account. Tickets will be available to pick up from the Leeds International Film Fetsival Box Office at The Carriageworks Theatre.