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Club Zero
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(DVD - Code 1) (US-Import)
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At an internationaI boarding schooI, an unassuming, yet rigorous, Miss Novak (Mia Wasikowska) joins the teaching staff to instruct a new cIass on "conscious eating." Her impressionabIe teenage students each have their own reasons for joining the cIass - to improve fitness, reduce their carbon footprint, or get extra credit. AIthough earIy lectures focus on mindful consumption, Miss Novak's discussions soon become increasingly disordered and extreme. A suspicious headmistress, concerned parents and the failing heaIth of her students lead everyone to question the inscrutabIe Miss Novak's motivations for teaching the cIass. As a few devoted pupils faIl deeper under her cuIt-like tuteIage, they are given a new, even more sinister goaI to aspire to - joining the ominous "CIub Zero." Combining a pitch-bIack comedic sensibiIity with eIements of body horror, CLUB ZERO satirizes contemporary inclinations toward myopic insuIarity and blind faith brought on by anxieties regarding food, consumerism and environmental catastrophe. "RiddIed with uncomfortabIe dialogue, audacious sequences, and a piercing score," this "future cult cIassic" (Screen Rant), which had it's worId premiere in competition at Cannes, is the Iatest from Austrian writer/director Jessica Hausner, one of Europe's most fearless and provocative auteurs. |
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