| October 29, 2009 | ||
| 2:00 pm | to | 3:32 pm |
| November 4, 2009 | ||
| 8:30 pm | to | 10:00 pm |
UK
2009/35mm/92mins MA 15+
THURSDAY 29 OCTOBER 2.00 pm – Dendy
WEDNESDAY 4 NOVEMBER 8.30 pm – Dendy
Strap yourself in for a jaw-dropping performance from Tom Hardy as he completely inhabits the role of Britain’s most notorious prisoner in this highly stylised piece of mischievous cinematic vaudeville.
After robbing a post office in 1974, young hot-head Michael Peterson spent more than 34 years in prison, 30 of it in solitary confinement, changing his name to Charles Bronson. The über-prisoner from the UK has been transformed by Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn into a rakish and gleeful psychopath – both theatrically charming and inexplicably violent.
Accompanied by music from Puccini to the Pet Shop Boys, Winding Refn redefines the biopic by taking the camera – and the viewer – on a scorchingly extravagant journey through the alter-ego.
Click here to view the trailer.
Sydney Film Festival – Best Film
“Gripping and visceral, ugly and beautiful, terrible and haunting, Bronson is quite brilliant.” Andrew Urban, Urban Cinefile
“Destined to be seen for the blistering one-of-a kind masterpiece that it is” Screenfanatic.com
Director Nicolas Winding Refn Producer Daniel Hansford Cast Tom Hardy, Matt King, Kelly Adams Screenplay Brock Norman Brock, Nicolas Winding Refn Print Source Madman Australia
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This was worth seeing for Tom Hardy’s performance alone.
Whilst the story is shocking – the sheer, unbridled violence of Michael Peterson (aka Charles Bronson) is almost devoid of any human compunction – the cinematography is brilliant.
The screenplay loses a little in terms of the continuity. It’s often hard to place events in a chronological sense.
Still, this will look great on blu-ray and should sit on the shelf with movies like Midnight Express and A Clockwork Orange.
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