Night Owl Cinema /
David Bowie Celebration
MERRY CHRISTMAS MR. LAWRENCE
Friday, June 7th at 9:30 PM
$16 Public | $10 Members
In this captivating, skewed World War II drama from Nagisa Oshima, David Bowie regally embodies Celliers,
a British officer interned by the Japanese as a POW. Rock star Ryuichi Sakamoto
(who also composed this film’s hypnotic score) plays the camp commander,
obsessed with the mysterious blond major, while Tom Conti is the British
lieutenant colonel Lawrence, who tries to bridge the emotional and language
divides between captor and prisoner. Also featuring actor-director Takeshi Kitano
in his first dramatic role, Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence is a
multilayered, brutal, at times erotic tale of culture clash, and one of Nagisa Oshima’s
greatest successes. (UK, Japan, 1983,
123 mins, English & Japanese | Dir. Nagisa Oshima)
