• 7pm The Intruder (Denis 2004)

Our regular evening dedicated to revealing the thinking behind great filmmaking hosted by Daniel Frampton and tonight with guest speaker Laura McMahon from Cambridge University.  There will be a short talk and introduction to the film, then afterwards the audience are invited to take part in a free flowing discussion.

Inspired by a memoir written by the French philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy, The Intruder concerns Louis, a man with a shady past who lives in a cabin in the Jura mountains near the Swiss border. He is estranged from his son, who is married to a border guard, and lusts after a neighbour who breeds huskys (though he holds the affections of a visiting pharmacist). But he realises he needs a heart transplant and hires a beautiful and mysterious Russian black marketeer to find him a new one. This leads him onto another search, back into his past...

Claire Denis's film is both haunting and elusive, and paints a subtle and elliptical picture of it's mysterious protagonist. But it is the film itself, sensuous and poetic, that holds us and tells us things about Louis beyond any need for dialogue or explanation.

With the support of Tartan Video

(Free entry)

The evening is hosted by Daniel Frampton, founding editor of the salon-journal Film-Philosophy (est. 1996) www.film-philosophy.com, and author of Filmosophy (Wallflower Press, 2006) www.filmosophy.org