111 mins |
Rated
R16
Directed by Mike Figgis
Starring Julian Sands, Richard Lewis, Steven Weber, Nicolas Cage, Elizabeth Shue
Playing as party of Academy's Lost Weekend: A Film Series of Cinema's Most Infamous Drunks, playing March 21 - 28.
'In Las Vegas on a mission to drink himself into the afterlife, recently unemployed alcoholic screenwriter Ben Sanderson (Nicolas Cage in an Academy Award-winning performance) finds a measure of succor in his relationship with sympathetic sex worker Sera (Elisabeth Shue—Academy Award-nominated and styled by Vivienne Westwood) in Figgis’s down-and-dirty character study.
The world occupied by Cage and Shue’s characters is anything but glitzy, but as costumed by Laura Goldsmith, both have a glum, slightly trashy beauty that’s entirely appropriate to a film about finding grace in the gutter.'
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Playing as party of Academy's Lost Weekend: A Film Series of Cinema's Most Infamous Drunks, playing March 21 - 28.
'In Las Vegas on a mission to drink himself into the afterlife, recently unemployed alcoholic screenwriter Ben Sanderson (Nicolas Cage in an Academy Award-winning performance) finds a measure of succor in his relationship with sympathetic sex worker Sera (Elisabeth Shue—Academy Award-nominated and styled by Vivienne Westwood) in Figgis’s down-and-dirty character study.
The world occupied by Cage and Shue’s characters is anything but glitzy, but as costumed by Laura Goldsmith, both have a glum, slightly trashy beauty that’s entirely appropriate to a film about finding grace in the gutter.'