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ADAM RESURRECTED
 | Moviehouse Dublin Road
Monday 26 April 7pm
£6.50/£6.00
|  | | | |  | | | | | | | | | | | | Director Paul Schrader / Country: Germany,USA,Israel / 2008 /106 mins / Cert:15 / Print source: Bleiberg Entertainment | | | | | | 
| | | | | | | | Adapted from the novel that has been called Israel’s Catch-22 for its dark comedy and fierce intensity, Adam Resurrected is a provocative tale of friendship and redemption.
At the centre of the story is Adam Stein (Jeff Goldblum), once a popular German cabaret star but now in an asylum after the second world war in the Negev Desert.
Cutting between the psychiatric institute and Germany during the war years when he is in the death camps along with his wife and daughter, he strikes a bargain with the Commandant, Klein (Willem Dafoe) to serve as his “pet” in exchange for not being gassed.
After the war Adam encounters a young boy who has been locked in the asylum because he believes he is a dog; it sparks powerful memories of the events that shattered Adam more than 15 years before, when his own identity was blurred.
'Director Paul Schrader (writer of Taxi Driver) establishes a structure highly akin to Fellini’s 8 1/2. Where Fellini made ecstasy contagious, Schrader is after much darker vistas. One cannot recommend this film strongly enough.' THE VILLAGE VOICE
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