dir. LUCILE HADZIHALILOVIC
year. 2004
country. FRANCE
run-time. 122 mins
rating. 15
£6 (£4.50 conc.)
Doors 7:00PM - Film 8:00PM
"Nostalgia and dread become one–and it’s a perfectly welcome symbiosis" - IndieWire
"Both delightful and disturbing" - Tribune
Unnerving, enchanting and beautifully shot, Lucile Hadzilalilovic's debut feature, Innocence, follows a year in the life of the girls in the third dormitory at a mysterious, boarding school, where new students arrive in coffins. Based on the German-Expressionist Novella 'Mine-Haha, or On the Bodily Education of Young Girls' by Frank Wedekind, Innocence explores the concept of purity and sexuality.
"Is this a Horror movie or a grim Fairy tale?"- Time Out