PARANOID PARK

France/2007/English dialogue/Colour/35mm & Super 8/84 mins

It’s Saturday night in Portland, Oregon, and Alex (Gabe Nevins) goes to Paranoid Park, a skate park on the wrong side of the tracks. Joining up with another skater they decide to ride the freight train. When a security guard apprehends them Alex unthinkingly hits him with his skateboard and he is killed under the train wheels. Alex’s life is typical of teenagers – girlfriends, family (parents divorcing, younger brother), school, writing his diary and skateboarding. In a state of denial, repressed anxiety and guilt after the manslaughter, he is repeatedly interviewed as a suspect by Detective Richard Lu (Dan Lu) who is determined to prove his hunch that Alex committed the crime.

“One of the greatest and most daring of US indie directors, Gus Van Sant is immeasurably aided here by the lyrical cinematography of Chris Doyle. Together they create a completely convincing vision of a teenager’s world, switching from the present to past, impressionistically rendering, through complex merging of image, sound and time, a powerful subjective portrait and ‘an intriguing, original, inventive 85 minutes that channels the cinematic dreamtime’ (Screen International).” – Sheila Whitaker

Starring : Gabe Nevins, Jake Miller, Taylor Momsen, Lauren McKinney, Olivier Garnier
Director(s) :

Gus Van Sant

GUS VAN SANT was born in 1952 in Louisville, Kentucky. One of the key figures in American independent cinema, he made his name with Drugstore Cowboy (1989) and his subsequent features as writer–director include My Own Private Idaho (1991), Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1993), Gerry (2002), Elephant (2003; winner of the Palme D’Or and Best Director at Cannes) and Last Days (2005). He also directed Good Will Hunting (1997; Oscar nomination for Best Director) and the shot-by-shot remake of Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho (1998).
Crew : Christopher Doyle(Cinematographer), Marin Karmitz(Producer), Nathanael Karmitz(Producer)
Format : Colour/35mm & Super 8
Running Time : 84 mins
Country : France
Programme : The Cinema of the World
Venue : Mall of the Emirates - CineStar 1, Mall of the Emirates - CineStar 1, Mall of the Emirates - CineStar 12, Mall of the Emirates - CineStar 12
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