Week-end Philip K. Dick

The brilliant science-fiction writer Philip K. Dick took literature into another dimension, another reality. And this reality was bound to appeal to cinema. Between the illusion of reality, a reality that is an illusion, and the reality of illusion, the blurring of perception to which the writer opens the doors does more than resonate with cinema. They are cinema itself: a question of reproduction. A setting in image. A representation of reality that at the same time questions what the real is. A representation? Or manipulation? But what is reality really? What we see? Or something beyond the visible? Behind the visible? Adapting Philip K. Dick means bringing doubt to the cinema. Through his stories: detecting the human in his lines, the character hallucinating or freeing himself from an alienating storytelling... Doubt within cinema itself, in the script. Doubting cinema itself. The art of pretense, isn't it one of those instruments of cognitive manipulation? It's enough to make you paranoid. Or to enjoy an ice palace like the ones you find at funfairs...

Programming :

Donnie Darko
Richard Kelly
2001. USA. 134 min. Color. DCP. VOSTF.

The first feature film by American director Richard Kelly, made when he was only twenty-six. Heavily influenced by Philip K. Dick-style fantasy, this is a chaotic journey into the psyche of a teenager. A dream, or rather a waking nightmare, that constantly blurs the line between dream and reality. In a small town in Iowa, Donnie, an introverted teenager, narrowly escapes an accident. At the same time, Frank, a giant rabbit with a monstrous face, tells him that the world will end in exactly 28 days, 6 hours, 42 minutes and 12 seconds.

> Saturday 26 April at 3.30pm

Blade Runner
Ridley Scott
1982. USA. 117 min. Color. DCP. VOSTF.

Fresh from the success of Alien, Ridley Scott adapts Philip K. Dick. Los Angeles in 2019. Deckard is back in action, tracking down a group of androids created in the image of man. The atmosphere is that of a film noir and the setting that of a sprawling megalopolis drowned in polluting gases. More than just a science fiction film, this is an existentialist epic. What makes us human? Blade Runner shakes the soul and the senses. It's about realising our own finitude, meeting its creator and simply asking him to live longer.

> Saturday 26 April at 6pm

Total Recall
Paul Verhoeven
1990. USA. 113 min. Color. DCP. VOSTF.

First there was Philip K. Dick's 1966 novel Memories for Sale, adapted by Alien screenwriters Dan O'Bannon and Ronald Shusett. Then there was Arnold Schwarzenegger's Terminator, which put everyone in agreement by forcing Dutchman Paul Verhoeven to direct a blockbuster unlike any other. Total Recall, a science-fiction film as political as it is paranoid. An opportunity for the violent Dutchman to use a virtual holiday on Mars to deliver a fast-paced action film that barely conceals a frontal attack on the American politics of the time.

Not suitable for children under 12 at the time of release.

> Sunday 27 April at 2pm

Paprika (Papurika)
Satoshi Kon
2006. Jap. 90 min. Color. DCP. VOSTF.

Let's face it, Paprika has no precedent in the history of cinema. Satoshi Kon barely warmed up with Perfect Blue and Millennium Actress, but it is with Paprika, his latest film, that he definitively breaks down the barriers between reality and fiction. In the process, he forces viewers to engage in a form of playful gymnastics that we thought had disappeared forever. Probing the depths of thought and the unconscious, penetrating patients' dreams and recording them... A narrative vertigo that owes much, much, much to Philip K. Dick.

> Sunday 27 April at 4pm

All practical information: La Cinémathèque de Toulouse