The Limits of Control (15)

Jim Jarmusch at his teasing, imaginative best celebrating, cinema, art, architecture, music, literature and life

Director: Jim Jarmusch
Starring: Isaach de Bakole, Tilda Swinton, John Hurt, Bill Murray, Gael Garcia Bernal
Spain/USA/Japan, 2009, 1 hour 56 minutes

Sat 27 February 8.30pm, Sun 28 8.45pm, Mon 1 March 8.45pm The Courtyard Hereford

A gently diverting, wryly amusing trip packed with reflections on life, literature, art, music, cinema and mortality. A taciturn, black 'samurai' travels across Spain to a string of meetings with mysterious strangers. At each, the rituals of an old-fashioned spy thriller are enacted; passwords spoken, identity established, cryptic messages passed. The men in black dog the trail that leads him to a heavily guarded villa and a final showdown with Bill Murray. A teasing, imaginative celebration of the artifice of cinema and how it influences our view of the world.