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The Addiction

  • Dir: Abel Ferrara

  • USA, 1995, English, 82mins, DCP

  • Cast: Lili Taylor, Christopher Walken, Annabella Sciorra

More existential crisis than gothic horror, and more philosophical discourse than blooddrenched carnage, The Addiction’s pop-culture grittiness offers the clues that this is an Abel Ferrara film. Lili Taylor portrays a philosophy student, whose transformation into a cold predator leads her to a deeper, more personal understanding of the historical atrocities of the Holocaust and My Lai Massacre. Dense with dialectical references from Nietzsche and Sartre, the smorgasbord of metaphors blends addiction with enlightenment, channelling vampirism into rumination of oppression, complicity and the nature of evil itself.

Berlin International Film Festival: In Competition

5/10 (Sun): Film talk with Bryan Chang

Screening:

In-theatre Screening

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The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region provides funding support to the project through the Film Development Fund.
The funding support bears no relationship whatsoever to the content of, or views expressed in this project.

The Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region provides funding support to the project through the Film Development Fund.
The funding support bears no relationship whatsoever to the content of, or views expressed in this project.