Cutter's Way
Ivan Passer / US, 1981 / 109 min.
John Heard and Jeff Bridges are the antiheroes of this neo-noir about the murder of a call girl in traumatised, post-Vietnam America. Ivan Passer’s thriller on manipulation by the powerful became a cult film – and can now be seen as one of filmmaker Albert Serra’s selections.
One night Richard Bone (Bridges), a drifter who earns a bit on the side working the wealthy country club circuit, sees the body of a murdered call girl being dumped in a garbage container. He decides not to get involved, but his friend Alex Cutter (Heard), a traumatised Vietnam veteran, believes he saw the murderer: and that it was oil baron J.J. Cord.
Cutter’s Way was an inspiration to Albert Serra, currently the subject of an exhibition in Eye. Pacifiction, Serra's portrait of a diplomat who challenges the status quo of the French political establishment, unfolds amidst the same atmosphere of paranoia and loss.
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Details
Director
Ivan Passer
Production year
1981
Country
US
Original title
Cutter's Way
Length
109 min.
Language
English
Subtitles
NLD
Format
DCP, 35mm
Part of
Albert Serra
Eye Filmmuseum presents the first exhibition in the Netherlands about the work of Catalan film and theatre director Albert Serra. Transforming the entire exhibition space into an immersive stage, Serra orchestrates nocturnal and clandestine encounters where theatre, cinema, and art converge.
Why in Eye
Both the characters and the viewer are left with an uneasy feeling about the invulnerability of power – I see a parallel with Albert Serra's Pacifiction. The impressive camerawork is by DOP Jordan Cronenweth, who also shot Blade Runner and Stop Making Sense, among others.
Thijs Havens
Programmer Eye Filmmuseum
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