Controversial film heading to NZ Film Festival

Controversial film heading to NZ Film Festival

Details have just come in of a new addition to the NZ Film Festival which caused somewhat of a controversy this year at Sundance and lead to some heated Q&As and arguments.

Compliance, which is likely to provoke some people here too sounds like an interesting film. Festival director Bill Gosden says : "Craig Zobel’s polarising drama re-enacts and illuminates a vicious prank that took place repeatedly in a number of US fast-food chain stores. A middle-aged shop manager (Ann Dowd) takes a call from a police officer instructing her to detain a pretty young staff member accused of theft. During the course of a night various others are drawn into the methodical sexual humiliation of the young woman. As a study of the allure of fascism it’s akin to The Wave, but so disconcerting in its prolonged queasiness that it almost dares an audience to share the prankster’s view of his victims as fit subjects for manipulation - Chilling"

It's based on some true events in the States as well - so it should be an interesting addition to an already busy New Zealand International Film Festival for 2012