Night of the Flies
Koolhoven & Simons: Night of the Flies
Tonight, Night of the Flies, an hour of flies and a feature film about a fly Eega: an action extravaganza, song and dances, outrageous humour and a love story about a poverty stricken beggar who reincarnates as a house fly.
Flies prove unexpectedly cinematically appealing and have inspired many filmmakers. We will start the evening with excerpts from films including: The Fly (1958), Return of the Fly (1959), Curse of the Fly (1965), Once Upon a Time in the West and the scene in Abel in which Abel tries to cut a fly in half. Then we will fly on to Eega (India, 2012).
In this Indian extravaganza, a murdered beggar reincarnates as a fly after which he plans to get his revenge on his murderer. Eega (Hindi for ‘fly’) director S.S. Rajamouli put a hilarious twist on the age old David Vs. Goliath story. In this romantic fantasy-comedy the ultimate winged underdog battles the ultimate evil. There prove to be 1,001 ways a fly can make a human life hard.
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Production year
2023
Length
150 min.
Moderator
Martin Koolhoven & Ronald Simons
Country
NL
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