Saturday, October 31 6:45pm to 8:15pm
Scandinavia House
58 Park Avenue, New York, NY, 10016
Grant Pierce (Christian McKay) arrives from London into Madrid, Spain, hoping to be given the chance to meet his favourite painter, American Freddie Lynch (Ben Cura), who is currently staying at a private hotel in an unassuming location outside the city. As Grant steps into the main building of “El MadronĚo”, he troublingly finds Lynch a crippled man whom, he soon reveals, has been unable to actually paint for the better part of a year.
As the two men get to know each other under the watchful eye of one of the owners of the hotel, Michael Redmane (Tom Bateman), they start to piece together the disturbing picture of Freddie’s marriage to beautiful writer Chloe Fleury (Andrea Deck) which harbours secrets that will reveal much more than Freddie’s recent creative emaciation and clearly defined obsession with her ex- husband.
Based on the 1888 stage play penned by Swedish playwright August Strindberg, “Creditors” is a modern re-telling of his story of love, betrayal, revenge and psychological manipulation, which he considered to be his one true masterpiece.
At times disturbingly funny and cruelly bleak, “Creditors” deals with the most private aspects of human relationships. From questioning our concepts of marriage and fidelity, to trying to establish the role of the modern woman in a world still trapping her within the confines of old fashioned canons, the film’s story stirs, moves and sometimes even angrily rebuts our very own personal definitions of each.
Director will host Q&A after the film: http://www.nordicfilmfest.org/schedule2015/2015/10/7/creditors-81-min-nordic-narrative-features-world-premier