Serpent's Path / Pulse
ABOUT THE FILMS:
SERPENT’S PATH, 2024, Dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 112 Min, France/Japan
In French with English subtitles.
In the suburbs of Paris, Albert, a freelance reporter, vows to take revenge for the brutal murder of his young daughter while Sayoko, a Japanese female doctor, assists him in his quest for revenge. With Sayoko’s skillful guidance, the two get closer to the truth behind Albert’s daughter’s death…
FORMAT: DCP
PULSE, 2001, Dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 119 Min, Magnolia Pictures, Japan
In Japanese with English subtitles.
Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s horror masterpiece, PULSE, tells the story of a group of young friends rocked by the sudden suicide of one of their own, and his subsequent, ghostly reappearance in grainy computer and video images. Is he trying to contact them from beyond the grave or is there something more sinister afoot? Eschewing gore and easy shocks for a harrowing tone unique to his cinema, writer/director Kiyoshi Kurosawa directs a dense and complex film whose metaphysical and psychological resonance will last long after the chills have subsided.
FORMAT: 35mm
ABOUT THE FILMS:
SERPENT’S PATH, 2024, Dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 112 Min, France/Japan
In French with English subtitles.
In the suburbs of Paris, Albert, a freelance reporter, vows to take revenge for the brutal murder of his young daughter while Sayoko, a Japanese female doctor, assists him in his quest for revenge. With Sayoko’s skillful guidance, the two get closer to the truth behind Albert’s daughter’s death…
FORMAT: DCP
PULSE, 2001, Dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa, 119 Min, Magnolia Pictures, Japan
In Japanese with English subtitles.
Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s horror masterpiece, PULSE, tells the story of a group of young friends rocked by the sudden suicide of one of their own, and his subsequent, ghostly reappearance in grainy computer and video images. Is he trying to contact them from beyond the grave or is there something more sinister afoot? Eschewing gore and easy shocks for a harrowing tone unique to his cinema, writer/director Kiyoshi Kurosawa directs a dense and complex film whose metaphysical and psychological resonance will last long after the chills have subsided.
FORMAT: 35mm
