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A.K.A: Lies Are Like Wishes
saturday may 4 9:30 pm Screening $11 - COLONY THEATRE |
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A.K.A. audaciously splits its wide-screen vision (ala Mike Figgis' Timecode) into three simultaneous frames to tell a gripping story of disaffected youth, identity lost and found, and the search for love. Dean, the handsome 18-year old hero of this riveting new film, tells himself "I will be somebody." But he is trapped in a dead-end world: a working-class London suburb, an abusive dad, and a waitress mom who's convinced that she's friends with the aristocrats she serves. Dean's means of escape is a charade. He infiltrates the very upper-class set his mother waits on, convincing them - and himself - that he belongs. But reinventing oneself comes at a big price.
Basing the film on pieces of his own life story, director Duncan Roy perfectly captures the arrogant decadence of the late 1970s England of Margaret Thatcher, where a dying elite cling to their faded status. He populates the film with a swirl of vibrant characters. There's the gaggle of old queens who first prey on Dean, and the hot-tempered coke-head "Lady" who gives him a job. There's the aging society "bad-boy" who wants him as his next kept thing, and the manic hustler from small-town Texas. The last is Dean's American counterpart and his only hope for true love. This dizzying, breathtaking film challenges us as viewers as it tells the story of one man's plunge into a masquerade and how he loses himself along the way.
Director Duncan Roy will attend the screening and discuss his film with the audience.
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