if... & The Seventh Continent (with Felix Dembinski)

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Brand new guest this week: please welcome writer and filmmaker Felix Dembinski. He very kindly came to my house to record and picked a top pairing for us to discuss.

if... (1968) A cult British classic from repentant toff Lindsay Anderson, if... follows a group of schoolboys worn down by the regime of their oppressive boarding school - culminating in an act of blood-soaked revenge.  Dream-like reveries and Godardian flourishes blur the lines between reality and fantasy as the lads contemplate an alternative to their regimented existence.

The Seventh Continent (1988) Michael Haneke's feature debut is remarkably assured - with the Austrian ice-man expertly calibrating a middle-class family's descent into self-destruction. Absolutely huge eighties soundtrack deployed with maximum irony.

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