UK Premier - Combat [18]
Saturday 4th November
6.30pm
FACT
PARTNER: Outsiders
Director in Attendance
Director Patrick Carpentier, 57 mins, Belgium 2006.
Starring Leo Joris, Tomas Matauko.
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Two lovers retreat into the woods to be alone. There, they fight, punch
and beat each other until they are both on the ground, exhausted, bleeding
and aroused. It's an act of love. Despite - or perhaps because of - its
violence, Combat is a gentle, poetic, erotic meditation on male homosexual
desire; director Patrick Carpentier's great achievement is to make us feel
the same way the lovers do about the way they express their love. It's a
remarkable achievement, original and profound, and the deserving winner
of a Special Jury Award at this year's Berlin Film Festival.
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