High Rise +
Q&A with Producer Jeremy Thomas & Yvonne Salmon
Cambridge Picturehouse,
Saturday 12th March, 6.00pm
Saturday 12th March, 6.00pm
We are delighted to welcome renowned producer Jeremy Thomas
for a Q&A
with Cambridge
University
"The brutalism begins with the architecture and extends
all the way
down to the residents." - Variety
"The kind of cinematic madness we desperately
need." - The Independent
"Serves up an orgiastic mayhem on a silver
platter." - The Telegraph
J. G. Ballard’s dystopian novel about society disintegrating
within a
giant tower block is brought to the screen by the maverick
writer-director partnership of Amy Jump and Ben Wheatley (Kill
List, Sightseers).
Awarded his biggest budget yet, Wheatley ushers on
board established stars and ace production designer Mark
Tildesley (The
Constant Gardener, 28
Days Later). Dr Robert Laing (Tom Hiddleston), an
affluent new tenant of the titular high-rise, quickly
attracts the
attentions of neighbour Charlotte (Sienna Miller) and then
of Helen
(Elisabeth Moss), who happens to be married to the socially
stratified
community’s resident troublemaker (Luke Evans).
As tensions build, the brutalist tower that its architect (a
supremely
laconic Irons) imagined would be “a crucible for change”
gradually
descends into anarchy in this great-looking, darkly
hilarious drama.
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