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87 min | USA/The Netherlands/Japan | 35 mm
main programme
international premiere
credits
PROD: Exterminating Angel
SALES: Exterminating Angel
SCENARIO: Tod Davies
CAMERA: Robert Tregenza
SOUND: Richard Beggs
MUSIC: Pray for Rain, Debbie Harry
CAST: Miguel Sandoval, Robert Wisdom, Alex Cox, Isabel Ampudia, Andrew Schofield, Adrian Kai
screenings
31 sunday 22:15 Luxor
02 tuesday 16:00 Path� 4
03 wednesday 11:30 Venster 3
06 saturday 17:00 Maastricht Path� 4
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Two lonely businessmen, Bennie (Miguel Sandoval) and Frank (director Alex Cox) are sitting at a table in the restaurant of a large Victorian hotel in Liverpool. In the dining room there is however no sign of any staff. The two men decide to go and find somewhere to eat, even though neither of them knows the city. They take an underground train towards the centre, they hope. But when they get out, there are not many people around. In addition, it doesn't look like the city of Liverpool any more. Unlike the two roaming businessmen, the Rotterdam festival audience will soon recognise where they are: in familiar festival locations, on Schouwburgplein, the Greek restaurant on Kruiskade, where our heroes are given ahuge plate of food. However they don't get to eat it and, in the meantime, the businessmen talk about all kinds of things. As they continue their quest for a restaurant, we find ourselves in a different port more familiar as an Asian metropolis. At dawn, they meet a third lost businessman, Leroy (Robert Wisdom). Together they find a place for breakfast in Josephine's roadside diner. There a surprise is in store for them. Three Businessmen is a humorous, surreal film, with a script (written by Tod Davies) full of sharp observations on modern business that will eventually end in the big-city version of a very old story...
Alex Cox
Alex Cox (1954, Liverpool) studied in Oxford and Bristol. He is a fan of spaghetti westerns from the sixties and seventies. He directed several plays, wrote two unfilmed screenplays and then went to study film at the University of Southern California. Repo Man and Sid and Nancy have also been screened in Rotterdam. He also presented the cult-film cycle Moviedrome for the BBC.
films
Films: Sleep is for Sissies (1980), Repo Man (1984), Sid and Nancy (1986), Straight to Hell (1986), Walker (1987), Highway Patrolman/El Patrullero (1992), Death and the Compass (1992, TV), The Winner (1996), La muerte y la brujula/Death and the Compass (1996).
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