Jonathan Glazer broke his nine year filmmaking silence with this stunning thriller based on Michael Faber's acclaimed novel. Scarlett Johansson stars as a voracious alien seductress who scours Scotland's remote highways, backroads and city streets in a non-descript white van, searching for men to hunt and kill. Each man is ushered into a pool of fluid where they spot the bodies of her previous victims, floating in the gloom. This dark cycle is interrupted, however, when she meets a disfigured man, and unexpectedly starts to feel a new thing - compassion. Is this what it means to be human? The reactions of people in the background are all entirely authentic (Johansson went into night clubs and shopping centres and asked for directions in the van while followed by hidden cameras) and the result is a disorientating and distinctive film that blurs fantasy and reality, surrealism and realism. Visually and aurally audacious (Mica Levi of Micachu and the Shapes' discordant electronic score is an eerie triumph), it's a daring, radical film that his quite simply out of this world. Our Cinema Curator Mark Cosgrove called it the best British film he has seen since Nic Roeg was in his prime, and Bristol audiences came in their droves to see it on its initial release. This is a chance to see it for the first time - or experience it again - and make up your own mind.

Tickets: £5.50 full / £4.00 concessions.

Soak up the feeling of this distinctive sci-fi film before you even get into the cinema!
Join us before the film in the Café/Bar from 21:00 for night sky time lapse projection by Alex Cherney (STARMUS Festival Winner 2014) and spooky tracks from the likes of Flying Lotus, DJ KRUSH and Portishead. Once in the cinema, you'll be treated to a screening of some rare shorts to get you in the mood, allowing you to let that unnerving, atmospheric, and strangely erotic feeling creep well and truly under your skin. Eerie stuff.

Part of Sci Fi: Days of Fear and Wonder, part of the BFI's huge celebration of science fiction, the world's most popular film genre, in Bristol and Beyond. Check watershed.co.uk/scifi for all the latest out of this world events.

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