Ever re-wired a plug? Now imagine doing it when your life depends on it. Oh, and the plug is buried and booby-trapped and the wires aren’t colour-coded and someone might shoot you at any moment. Now imagine it’s your job to do this every day. Welcome to The Hurt Locker, the story of a bomb-disposal team fighting the Iraq war on the front line and beyond. The first film directed by a woman ever to win an Oscar for Best Picture.
The screening will be followed by a Q&A with local female filmmakers Julia Ford and Katy Milner.
“Visceral, mesmerising, and emotionally draining. It is shellshock in a bottle.” *****
The Times
“The best and most insightful anti-war film about Iraq.” *****
The Guardian
Kathryn Bigelow / USA 2009 / 126 min / cert: 15
Post-screening comments received:
“Speechless!”
“Powerful but very hard to watch!”
“Powerful and disturbing”
“Horrible subject-matter but an intriguing film”
“Not particularly a woman’s film!”
“Very good choice and liked having a woman director”
“Good to have a discussion after. Could you show a film by male director with conventional ‘female’ scenario’??”