VEE-REVIEW: The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael

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The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael

In a small English coastal town, a teenage boy is tempted into an assault on the home of smug television chef that leads to a bloodbath. The boys' actions horrify their sleepy community and expose its deepest jealousies.

Thomas Clay, director of The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael

With brutal scenes of rape and torture that have set hardened hacks jostling for the exit, The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael is the debut feature of 24-year-old British writer/director Thomas Clay. It was a selection for the Critics' Week at Cannes. Shot predominantly on location, the film certainly looks good, thanks to the camerawork of acclaimed cinematographer Yogros Arvanitis.

'It's about the way that values and ideals which allow something like Iraq or Nicaragua to happen are being expressed in subtler ways in our own society,' Clay says.

Not one to watch with your mum.

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