200 films in 50 words, #8
Long Weekend, dir. Colin Eggleston (1978), Sofa (BFI Player), Home, 20/1/23.
Our third film this Friday (hardcore!), child in bed (obviously: it’s a ecological horror, recommended by Mark Jenkin). A married couple, warring; volcanic anger. Suffocating trees, waves, dugongs; people recklessly destroying nature; nature destroying them right back. The shop customers peering at them knew what was coming. We all do.
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