Following on from his provocative thriller, New Order, writer-director Michel Franco’s latest, Sundown, is a simmering, suspenseful sharp jolt. Tim Roth (Resevoir Dogs) gives a blackly comic performance in this existential tour-de-force.
Alice and Neil Bennett (Charlotte Gainsbourg, Tim Roth) are the core of a wealthy British family on vacation in Acapulco with younger members Colin and Alexa (Samuel Bottomley and Albertine Kotting McMillan) until a distant emergency cuts their trip short. When one relative disrupts the family’s tight‐knit order, surprising tensions rise to the fore.
Franco’s transgressive feature is somehow simultaneously pitch-perfect and pitiless. The decision to follow Roth’s Neil whose motives are foggy and unclear for the most part, makes for an endlessly compelling and introspective portrait.
"Tim Roth is a wonderfully relaxed sociopath in Venice’s funniest film "
- THE GUARDIAN
"A film so alive, everything changes contently, life in life, keeping us prisoner in its enigmatic mastery."
- CINEMANIA
"Roth’s performance is utterly absorbing."
- AUSTIN CHRONICLE
"Tim Roth excels at quiet intensity in Michel Franco’s unsettling drama."
- LA TIMES
Thursday 7th July
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82 min
MA15+
Charlotte Gainsbourg, Tim Roth, Henry Goodman, Iazua Larios, Samuel Bottomley, Mónica Del Carmen, James Tarpey, Albertine Kotting McMillan
Michel Franco
Drama
Pentridge Cinema, Palace Balwyn, Palace Cinema Como, Palace Brighton Bay, The Kino, Palace Westgarth, Palace Norton Street, Palace Central, Palace Verona, Palace Byron Bay, Palace James St, Palace Barracks, Palace Electric Cinema, Palace Raine Square
