This unique and absorbing film, adapted by Walter Campbell from Michel Faber’s 2000 novel, depicts a female sexual predator (Johansson) stalking a gritty Glaswegian urban landscape. Director Jonathan Glazer (responsible for the famous Guinness horses in the surf advert) impressed with his previous films Sexy Beast (starring Ray Winstone) in 2000 and Birth in 2004, and this his third film has taken him into the ranks of  “Britain’s most exciting filmmakers” (Sight and Sound).

The film took Glazer ten years to bring to the screen. Much of the film was created ‘under cover’ with hidden cameras capturing real people going about the streets of Glasgow, as well as professional actors being used in key sequences. The film has divided viewers, including in Scotland where some have criticised its depiction of the local population, but it was highly praised by critics and appeared in many critics’ ‘best of 2014’ lists. Its original score has received many awards.

“This is, very simply and straightforwardly, a masterpiece.” Robbie Collin, The Telegraph

“visually stunning and deeply disturbing: very freaky, very scary and very erotic … with a dog-whistle of absurdist humour” Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian