Metrograph

The outbreak of a mysterious fire in a remote Scottish village sets into motion a chain of events—including the violent scapegoating of “suspicious” strangers—that will finally lead to the unraveling of the entire community in Tsangari’s ravishing, rough-hewn adaptation of Jim Crace’s Booker Prize–winning novel of the same name, featuring a harried, thrillingly in-the-moment lead performance by Caleb Landry Jones and endlessly inventive 16mm cinematography by Sean Price Williams, invoking in turns the canon of English folk horror and the films of Sergei Parajanov. A triumphal return for Tsangari, presiding genius of the Greek Weird Wave, and a film whose atmosphere of gathering unease will not soon leave you.

Introduction by cinematographer Sean Price Williams on Sunday, August 3rd

Distributor: MUBI