Programme > Ffresh Opening Night Film: Walk Away Renee
Wednesday, Feb 8th, 19.30 – 21.00, Riverfront Cinema
Tickets £4.80 (concessions £4.30). Buy here.
“Few filmmakers working today can meld the formal wizardry on display here with a relatively straightforward account of a serious personal subject. With a soundtrack of quiet standards accompanying some extremely imaginative apocalyptic abstractions, Caouette has achieved a balancing act bordering on genius.” Howard Feinstein, ScreenDaily
Ffresh is proud to host the UK premiere of Jonathan Caouette’s long awaited follow up to his highly acclaimed debut feature Tarnation.
In Walk Away Renee Jonathan embarks on a road trip to move his mentally ill mother Renée across the country. As they encounter roadblocks in the present, we begin to flash back to moments from the past, giving us insight into this anything-but-ordinary mother/son relationship. Through musical montage, psychedelic sequences and real and imagined circumstance the film raises questions about love, sacrifice, and the reality in which we live.
The film will be introduced by writer & director Jonathan Caouette.
