Discover William Friedkin’s staggering, long-undervalued masterpiece of suspense, SORCERER.
Starring Roy Scheider, the film follows four desperate outcasts from around the globe hiding out in a gritty South American oil town who accept a near-suicide mission: driving two aging, leaking trucks loaded with unstable, highly volatile boxes of dynamite across treacherous, crumbling jungle roads to extinguish a raging oil well fire.
This 1977 film is an astonishing cinematic achievement of Friedkin’s unrelenting direction, plunging audiences into a claustrophobic, sweat-soaked descent where every bump in the road could mean total obliteration. Backed by a hypnotic, pulsing electronic score by Tangerine Dream, it is a visceral, nerve-shredding thriller that treats tension as a physical force.
This screening will be introduced by Phnom Penh local and movie buff John Ryan.
Adventure, Drama, Thriller
United States (English, Spanish, French, German) 121 Min
