Exodus

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The Carriageworks: Main Auditorium
17 November • 8.30pm

In a startling departure from her tales of Leeds' own Tina in such films as last year's Mischief Night, Penny Woolcock's gripping Exodus is a provocative, searingly political updating of the Old Testament story, with the Pharaoh as a right-wing politician and Moses as a terrorist. Shot in widescreen, with an eye-popping vision of dystopia that rivals Alfonso Cuaron's Children of Men, it shows a Promised Land where the oppressed are brutalized and become brutal, and terrible injustice leads to horrific terrorism. Incorporates stunning footage of the building and burning of Anthony Gormley's Waste Man.

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