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"The Firm / Elephant"
1988
Directed by Alan Clarke

Two extraordinary, brutally perceptive works by unheralded British filmmaker Alan Clarke. The Firm (1988, 70 mins.) explores the aggressive character of masculine identity through the figure of Bex (Gary Oldman), a real estate agent and leader of a band (or "Firm") of soccer hooligans. Pestered into getting revenge on a rival gang, Bex unleashes a more coolly calculating form of vigilante violence, which Clarke explores in his characteristically bleak and unsparing fashion. Elephant (1988, 39 mins.) is a raw and astonishing experimental work that depicts a series of 18 violent killings in Northern Ireland. Formally rigorous and eerily hypnotic, the film is an obvious influence on Gus van Sant's own Elephant in the way that it coolly and disturbingly questions our ability to fathom human motivation.  109 minutes.

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