Chichester Cinema at New Park
Soft Targets
CHICHESTER INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Kenith Trodd, Producer:
A Selective Retrospective of his work with major screen talent 1969-2004 including Dennis Potter, Simon Gray, Stephen Poliakoff, Pat O’Connor and Christopher Morahan.
10th Event
Soft Targets is Stephen Poliakoff’s teasing foray at a London Cold War thriller set in the grimmest and silliest years of Thatcher and Reagan. A low level Soviet diplomat is pitched into a pre-yuppie vortex of bright young parties and posh anomie but he isn’t a spy and his only career ambition is to be sent back to Moscow, if necessary in disgrace. Poliakoff lurches elegantly in and out of all the genre stereotypes and reverses most of them. As the lost Russian Ian Holm gives surely the most surprising and compelling performance of even his career, with Helen Mirren terrific as an English girl whose displacement is even greater. And there is a first fleeting screen cameo from Rupert Everett.
We hope to welcome the writer Stephen Poliakoff to introduce this film.
Large Screen DigiBeta presentation in the Studio (limited seating capacity)
(Tickets £5)
UK · 1982 · Charles Sturridge · 94min
