Heartless + Q&A with Philip Ridley
Heartless
Format: Cinema
Screening date: 19 May 2010
Venue: Prince Charles Cinema
Director: Philip Ridley
UK 2009
113 mins
For more information and to buy tickets go to the Prince Charles Cinema website
Our friends at the Prince Charles Cinema are showing Philip Ridley’s latest film, Heartless, on Wednesday 19 May. It tells the menacing and magical tale of Jamie (ACROSS THE UNIVERSE star Jim Sturgess) born with a heart-shaped birthmark on his face. Shunned by those who find him repulsive, the photographer’s son lives in a part of London’s East End notorious for gang violence. When his mother is viciously murdered, the media reports it’s by a hoodie wearing a devil mask. But Jamie soon realises the thugs aren’t wearing disguises at all; they really are demons and hell on earth is beginning to plague the capital city. Yet all is not what it seems in enfant terrible Ridley’s unique horror fantasy landscape ingeniously informed by the current climate of fear running through every strata of modern society.
The film will be introduced by director Philip Ridley.
