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Essencial Killing

Hosted by the Consul of the Lisbon Cinema Group
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Took place 3 weeks 6 days ago
Sat 14 Sep 17:15 - 19:05

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Written and directed by Jerzy Skolimowski for a solo role by Vincent Gallo, or almost. He plays a man captured by the US army in Afghanistan and sent somewhere to Eastern Europe who manages to escape on the journey. ESSENTIAL KILLING is a film about a white landscape of snow, ice, a solitary, silent escape, an experience of survival facing the limits. “It is a film about the reduction of man to animality, that is, about the reduction of man to his essence. In other words, a film about ‘what needs to be done’, in the most primordial sense that the expression can have.” (Luís Miguel Oliveira)