SURVEILLANCE
(US/Germany, R, 2008, 98
min)
After a 15-year absence from filmmaking,
Jennifer Lynch, (Boxing
Helena and daughter of the notorious David Lynch) helms a
fantastic crime thriller with overtones of Rashomon.
FBI agents Bill Pullman and Julia Ormond are tracking a serial killer
across the nation. After a recent mass murder on an isolated
highway, they simultaneously question the three remaining survivors in
three different interrogation rooms, inevitably ending up with three
wildly different stories. But while Rashomon played
with the conventions of the different characters giving different
untruthful accounts, the flashback scenes in Surveillance are based on
the honest points of view of the characters, so the audience is always
seeing what actually happened. And what happened, of course,
is what ultimately turns this creepy thriller into a mesmerizing film
where you will believe everything you see…and you will be
wrong. Also starring Michael Ironside.
Viewer’s Guide: Violence,
language, gore, nudity and drug use.
SCREENINGS - Saturday at 3:20 p.m. and
Sunday at 5:30 p.m.
