THE SURFER

MAY 29 - 30

The sleeper midnight hit of last year's Cannes Film Festival starring Nic Cage in peak form- THE SURFER, a mystery/drama with Australian seaside vistas and existential echos of David Lynch- screens for two shows only!

In the psychological thriller directed by Lorcan Finnegan, a man (Nicolas Cage) returns to the idyllic beach of his childhood to surf with his son. But his desire to hit the waves is thwarted by a group of locals whose mantra is "don't live here, don't surf here." Humiliated and angry, the man is drawn into a conflict that keeps rising in concert with the punishing heat of the summer and pushes him to his breaking point.

"Cage is the best reason to watch “The Surfer,” a deliberately punishing drama in which he plays the title role." -The New York Times

"It’s a film in which the mythic crashes into the ridiculous, the intersection where its star Nicolas Cage has also staked his career." -The Los Angeles Times

"As the Surfer becomes increasingly desperate in the contest of wills, he becomes unhinged, and in cinema, an unhinged Nic Cage is the best Nic Cage." -The San Fransisco Chronicle