Friday 15 July 2005, 19.00
Reed: Insurgent Mexico
Paul Leduc, Mexico 1971, 110'
Leduc’s accomplished and complex first feature is a fictionalised biography of American radical, US Communist Party founder
and reporter John Reed (author of Ten Days That Shook the World), who ended up joining the Mexican Revolution after being dispatched to the conflicted country to write a story on Pancho
Villa. Shot in gorgeous sepia tone, Reed: Insurgent Mexico stays faithful to the book by Reed upon which it is based, depicting in vivid detail and depth his transformation from journalist
and spectator to participant and revolutionary.
Sponsored by HSBC with additional support from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Mexico, Conaculta-Instituto Mexicano de Cinematografía,
and Filmoteca de la UNAM.
Tate Modern
Starr Auditorium
£4, booking recommended
£4, booking recommended
This event is related to the Frida Kahlo exhibition
