Manchester
Hardcore (18) + intro
Paul Schrader?s second directorial work, following Blue Collar (1978), this psychological neo-noir sees a devout Calvinist businessman, played by George C. Scott, leave his Midwestern town to find his teenage daughter, who has vanished on a church-sponsored trip to California.
His worldview is upended when the search becomes a nightmare odyssey through the sleazy underbelly of California, as the realisation that his daughter?s whereabouts are worse than he could imagine.
Often framed as a 70s retelling of John Ford?s The Searchers (1956), Hardcore paints a bleak portrait of the American Dream and its fragile promise of moral certainty.
A personal work for Schrader, who was brought up Calvinist, the film explores a number of themes - faith (and crisis of), alienation, repression and the possibility of redemption - that were introduced in his writing of Taxi Driver (1976) and would later become his directorial signature.?
Hardcore (18) + intro Tickets
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