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HEARTLESS
 | QFT
Wednesday 21 April 9.00pm
£6.50/£6.00
|  | | | |  | | | | | | | | | | | | Director: Philip Ridley / UK / 2009 / 90 mins / Cert: 18 / Print source: Lionsgate UK | | | | | | 
| | | | | | | | A dark, horror-tinged urban fantasy from visionary filmmaker Philip Ridley (The Reflecting Skin and The Passion Of Darkly Noon).
Jamie Morgan (Jim Sturgess) plays a young photographer who feels as if his life has been blighted by the birthmark that covers half of his face, that birth mark being heart-shaped. He lives in an urban world dominated by a terrifying gang culture, whose random violence has convinced Jamie that the world is meaningless and ugly.
But then Jamie meets someone who tells him the truth. The violence is not random, it’s far from chaotic, there is a reason for everything. Once Jamie accepts this the world reveals itself as a thing of great beauty... And that’s when his real nightmare starts... Heartless is an intelligent genre mix of horror, black comedy and social realism.
"A fever-dream mashup cherry-picking from a staggeringly diverse portfolio of high and low art, fantastically creative, impeccably produced and beautifully acted by all concerned, Heartless simply cannot be recommended highly enough." Twitch.net
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