SF Premiere of French Sci-Fi Thriller
San Francisco Film Society
French Cinema Now at Landmark’s Clay Theatre
http://www.sffs.org/events/films/film_eden_log.html
October 11 at 11:59pm
Franck Vestiel's Eden Log will premiere in San Francisco on Saturday,
October 11 at 11:59 pm at the Landmark’s Clay Theatre as part of
French Cinema Now, the San Francisco Film Society's five-day festival
celebrating France's rich cinematic tradition.
Refreshingly complex, vividly unsettling, and artfully shot, Vestiel's
sci-fi feature offers ample chills and much food for thought. Mr. Heck
of the Late Night Picture Show describes Eden Log as a "new science
fiction that combines elements of horror and suspense in the tradition
of films such as ALIEN and CUBE-- to very satisfying results".
Tickets are on sale now at www.sffs.org or by calling 925-866-9559.
Out of a primordial pond crawls a somewhat human form, grunting and
moaning as he slithers and climbs upward toward some mysterious
destination. This bestial figure comes from mysterious origins-"I
don't know who I am," he moans-but is driven to escape the devastated
multilevel labyrinth he is trapped within. As computer-generated
women--representatives of a corporation called Eden Log--congratulate
him on his progress, an unnamed man reveals the company's nefarious
plot to use immigrant labor. Battling corporate shock troops, mutant
creatures and half-mad survivors on his way to the surface, he pieces
together the story of the apocalypse in which he too has played a
part. Refreshingly complex, vividly unsettling and artfully shot in a
palette of greens, blues and grays, Franck Vestiel's sci-fi feature
blends the cyberpunk flair of Tetsuo with the eco-horror concerns of
films like Soylent Green and The Last Winter and the existential
predicament of Tarkovsky's Stalker. As if that weren't enough, in the
second half a twisted love story flickers briefly to life. With its
memorable soundtrack, claustrophobic atmosphere and bare-bones
dialogue, Eden Log offers ample chills and much food for thought.
Buy tickets at www.sffs.org or by calling 925-866-9559; the full
French Cinema Now program is available here.
Get tickets here: https://www.trilogyticketing.com/sffs/