The Wish To Be a Red Indian: Kafka and Cinema 2024 / After Hours / USA 1985
At the end of yet another tedious day, bored word processor Paul Hackett goes into a bar, where he meets an unusual girl. At this moment his life suddenly becomes a nocturnal sprint through the dark recesses of New York as he experiences a series of inexplicably linked events which, at first glance, transform his real world into an absurd parallel reality. The connection between Scorsese’s lesser-known masterpiece, which won Best Direction in Cannes, and Franz Kafka’s writings is self-evident, while it undeniably comes closest to his short story Description of a Struggle. As Kafka might have put it, After Hours is a film in which life is something that induces dizziness, something that is “recognised no less clearly as a nothing, a dream, a dim hovering”. We present the movie in its brand-new digital restoration.
Lorenzo Esposito
96 min / Color, DCP
Director Martin Scorsese
/ Screenplay Joseph Minion
/ Dir. of Photography Michael Ballhaus
/ Music Howard Shore
/ Sound Michael Berenbaum
/ Editor Thelma Schoonmaker
/ Art Director Jeffrey Townsend
/ Producer Amy Robinson, Griffin Dunne, Robert F. Colesberry
/ Production The Geffen Company
/ Coproduction Double Play
/ Cast Griffin Dunne, Rossana Arquette, Verna Bloom, Thomas Chong, Linda Fiorentino, Teri Garr, John Heard, Richard Cheech Marin, Catherin O´Hara
/ Sales Park Circus Group
Martin Scorsese (1942, New York). Selected filmography: Taxi Driver (1976), The Last Waltz (1978), Raging Bull (1980), After Hours, (1985), Goodfellas (1990), Gangs of New York (2002), The Departed (2006), Shutter Island (2010), The Wolf of Wall Street (2013), The Irishman (2017), Killers of the Flower Moon (2023).
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