Dunedin Film Society to screen William Oldroyd's EILEEN

[Dunedin Film Society]

WELCOME TO OUR NEXT SCREENING William Oldroyd's EILEEN (USA/UK | 2023 | 98 mins | R16 child sexual abuse themes, violence, cruelty, sexual material, suicide & offensive language) Wednesday 19 November, 7.30PM, University of Otago’s Castle 1 Lecture Theatre** Thomasin McKenzie and Anne Hathaway star in William Oldroyd’s neo-noir follow-up to Lady Macbeth about a young secretary who is dazzled by a glamorous colleague in ’60s New England.   “A shy prison guard falls for the facility’s glamorous new psychiatrist in William Oldroyd’s intoxicating adaptation of novelist Ottessa Moshfegh’s psychosexual thriller. Oldroyd’s eagerly awaited follow-up to Lady Macbeth centres once again on a young woman with unruly desires. Eileen’s days pass with listless fantasies of sex and suicide, until Rebecca sets her world alight. As Rebecca, Anne Hathaway’s megawatt charisma is showcased to thrilling effect, while Ari Wegner’s cinematography creates a pungent, pulpy atmosphere that intensifies as the relationship between the women hurtles towards a shocking conclusion” (Rowan Woods, London Film Festival 2023)   Watch the trailer of Eileen   FURTHER REVIEW “Anyone who saw William Oldroyd’s 2016 first feature, the blisteringly indecorous Victorian tragedy Lady Macbeth, will know not to expect anything ordinary from his long-awaited follow-up. But even with those expectations in mind, what a strange and spellbinding psychological thriller he has woven out of Ottessa Moshfegh’s novel, Eileen, which shares with the British director’s debut a contagious fascination with complicated women subject to dark impulses. Rippling with sly humor and a bold command of the tropes of classic Hitchcockian suspense, this is a twisty and beguiling original, led by contrasting but expertly synced performances from Thomasin McKenzie and Anne Hathaway” (David Rooney, Hollywood Reporter). NB: There will be a lucky draw this week for seats to Nuremberg, which concerns an American psychiatrist’s interactions with the surviving Nazi leadership before they were put on trial after the War; and Die My Love, Lynne Ramsay’s portrait of a woman undergoing post-partum mental illness. DIE MY LOVE Grace, a writer and young mother, is slowly slipping into madness. Locked away in an old house in and around Montana, we see her acting increasingly agitated and erratic, leaving her companion, Jackson, increasingly worried and helpless. From visionary director Lynne Ramsay and producer Martin Scorsese. Starring Academy® Award winner Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson. Watch the trailer here!  Coming to Aotearoa NZ cinemas from November 27! NUREMBERG Starring Academy Award winners Rami Malek and Russell Crowe, alongside Oscar nominees Richard E. Grant and Michael Shannon, Malek and Crowe lead this gripping historical drama set in the immediate aftermath of WWII.  The film centres on the Nuremberg Trials — a landmark moment of justice for crimes against humanity — as an American psychiatrist faces off against Hitler’s right-hand man in a courtroom battle of wits. Watch the trailer here!  Coming to Aotearoa NZ cinemas from November 27! ABOUT THE DUNEDIN FILM SOCIETY ADMISSION Free to members. TO JOIN To purchase a Half Season membership: complete a membership form from our website and pay by online bank transfer (06-0942-0696013-00) or join at the door before any screening (cash only) you can also join at the OUSA office reception at the University of Otago (cash only) Alternatively, you can purchase a Three-Film sampler ($25), which can be also be shared to bring two friends to one screening. The sampler does not expire and can be used over multiple years. Membership includes generous discounts at Rialto Cinemas (from Monday to Friday); and FREE entry to the 2025 screenings of all other affiliated New Zealand Film Societies. Each member is entitled to ONE FREE GUEST ADMISSION to a single screening.   Please see our website for further details **To get to the Castle 1 Theatre: walk up between the University of Otago’s Arts building (Burns) and Information Services building (Central Library), on Albany Street. WE WELCOME YOUR FEEDBACK!... on this screening, or any other Dunedin Film Society showing, on dunedinfi...@gmail.com  –––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––––– Dunedin Film Society C/- 1 Crewe Street Maryhill Dunedin, Otago 9011 New Zealand