It’s fitting that Andrew Cummings debut feature opens with stories told around a campfire – it has themes that date back, not just to the birth of cinema, but probably to the beginning of storytelling itself … not for nothing is this titled The Origin. We have the terror of the night and the mysteries beyond the circle of firelight of our known world. We have the fear of the other. We have superstition vs rationalism. We have the question “who is the real monster here?” and we have, especially, a threatened man’s fear of women. These are deep, primal themes, revisited over and again since humanity first saw shadows reflected on the cave wall (thank you Mr Plato).
Universal and ancient though the themes might be, Cummings, whose film is premiering at the Lff (the two remaining performances are already sold out), has given his debut a relatively novel setting: 45,000 years into the past,...
Universal and ancient though the themes might be, Cummings, whose film is premiering at the Lff (the two remaining performances are already sold out), has given his debut a relatively novel setting: 45,000 years into the past,...
- 10/7/2022
- by Marc Burrows
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
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