FRANKENSTEIN (2015)

USA. Direction: Bernard Rose. Production: Gabriela Bacher, Heidi Jo Markel, Jennifer Holliday, Christian Angermayer, Klemens Hallmann / Summerstorm, Bad Badger, Eclectic Pictures. Screenplay: Bernard Rose. Photography: Bernard Rose, Candace Higgins. Music: Halli Cauthery. Edition: Bernard Rose. Cast: Xavier Samuel, Carrie-Anne Moss, Tony Todd, Maya Erskine, Danny Huston. Running time: 90 min

LANGUAGE: English / SUBTITLES: Spanish

The year 2016 will celebrate the 200th anniversary of that meeting at Villa Diodati based on which (and on the substances that fuelled the desire and imagination of her husband, Byron and Polidori) Mary W. Shelley wrote Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus. To celebrate that glorious bicentenary prior to its actual date, the Festival is programming this new version set to vie power against power with that of Paul McGuigan. Ours is signed by Bernard Rose, our accomplice on Candyman (1992) who, having started to film in Super 8 proclaimed on picking up a digital camera for the first time: "Film is dead. Long live cinema!". His take on the creature is modern, somewhat gory, sad but of classic cut. The monster is not a beast, but a lost being, like so many others in this 21st century.