FOOD NIGHTMARES
Cinematic exorcisms for the terrors of industrial food
Friday 8th
12:00 pm
Cinema Lumière - Sala Scorsese
SOYLENT GREEN / 2022: i sopravvissuti
by Richard Fleisher
USA, 1973, 35mm, 97’, col.
From the novel by Harry Harrison, a science fiction cult classic of the 70s, starring the great Charlton Heston and Edward G. Robinson, in the service of a luminous narrative intuition. The film depicts the world of 2022, governed by a food multinational, Soylent, that satiates the public with its industrial crackers – the only food that remains. A detective, investigating a homicide, discovers the secret ingredient of the most ambitious of the company’s products: Soylent Green. Visionary, provocative, and in retrospective, prophetic.
Saturday 9th
12:00 pm
Cinema Lumière - Sala Scorsese
BLACK SHEEP
by Jonathan King
Nuova Zelanda, 2007, 35mm, 87’, col.
When environmentalists liberate a genetically modified lamb from an experimental laboratory, hunderds of sheep are tranformed into predators thirsty for blood… Can a “sheep-o-phobic” and a hippy save the local community besieged by these fluffy and carnivorous monsters? The only hope is organic agriculture! The New Zealander Jonathan King (no relation to Mr. Stephen) is mixes masterfully gore, tension, and irony. A very just j’accuse in the face of science that breaks the rules of nature: from now on they’ll look at sheep with very different eyes.
Sunday 10th
10:30 pm
Cinema Lumière - Sala Scorsese
THE STUFF / The Stuff – il gelato che uccide
by Larry Cohen
USA, 1985, 35mm, 83’, col.
From the magician of “cheap” horror Larry Cohen, a film that depicts the clamorous success of a new type of yogurt put on the market by a corporation: The “Stuff” has a special, delicious taste, and you can find it in every house. There’s only one little problem: it’s not an industrial product, but an alien substance put on the market with the sole aim of profit, without any testing. The “Stuff” yields satisfaction at first, followed by a genetic mutation in its consumers that transforms them into ruthless killers. Low budget but much mastery and sense of rhythm: The STUFF is a sharp satire of the American consumer system that offers everything to consumers without considering potential dangers to their health. A film from the ‘80s, but still extremely current…
