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EXPIRED
+ Director Q&A
(Cecilia Miniucchi, US 2007, 107)
ICA CINEMA 1
Thursday 13 March 8.30PM
ICA CINEMA 2 Friday 14 March 6.15PM
UK PREMIERE
+ FREE entry to to our closing night party
"brave, witty, distressing and touching often simultaneously" - Sophie Ivan, Birds Eye View
2007 Cannes Critics Week closing film Expired is the story of Claire (Samantha Morton), an unimposing, sweet-tempered meter maid whose sheltered existence with her stroke-afflicted mother is jolted when she meets Jay, a troubled fellow parking officer. As Claire tentatively emerges from her shell and emotionally stunted Jay jumps in with gusto, their love affair becomes an awkward and sometimes-hilarious dance of antagonism and attraction, where she must decide whether to engage or pull away.
Writer, director and producer Cecilia Miniucchi makes her fiction-feature debut as writer-director of Expired. She has made a variety of documentaries and music videos, is a photographer and writer of songs, short stories, poetry and screenplays. Born and raised in Italy, Miniucchi was educated at Romes LUISS (Free University of International Social Sciences), where she focused on political science. The program took her to the Sorbonne, Oxford and finally to Harvard for a graduate degree in literature.
The Q&A will be hosted by journalist, writer and broadcaster Sarfraz Manzoor.
Read what BEV team member Sophie Ivan thinks about Expired:
What struck me most about Expired is that it doesn't sit easily into a comfy, familiar genre. In fact, nothing about the film is comfortable: it is brave, witty, distressing and touching often simultaneously which makes it all the more impressive and refreshing. The razor-sharp dialogue kept me laughing, and the casting was spot-on all round. The relationship between two chalk and cheese parking inspectors the stereotypical booming asshole Jay (Jason Patric), who thrives on the schadenfreude of ruining other people's days, and Morton's sympathetic, unassuming Claire deceptively hints at caricature. In fact, the two perfectly play out Miniucchi's complex study of the grey areas that exist in dysfunctional relationships passive-aggressiveness, borderline-abusive jibes, manipulative guilt-trips... Miniucchi's film bravely acknowledges that such issues are never black-and-white, nor does tragedy preclude comedy (and vice versa), because human relationships, happily, aren't limited to one genre.
This feature is preceded by
The
Lake
(Maarit Lalli, Finland 2006, 7', subtitles)
One morning at dawn, the beleaguered Mallis takes her sister out in a rowboat to help her retrieve a lost item. Both are surprised by what the lake offers up.
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