This weekend at AFS, Michael Winterbottom – director of such postmodern British classics as 24 Hour Party People and The Trip, Steve Coogan vehicles that have defined British cinema over the past two decades – offers up the “twisted British answer to Thelma & Louise” per The New York Times. When shy convenience store clerk Miriam (Saskia Reeves) encounters the volatile, generously pierced and be-chained serial killer Eunice (Amanda Plummer), she’s immediately enamored, but their ensuing killing spree sends her down a doomed path of murder and crazed religiosity. Soundtracking the whole gritty, depressing affair are none other than PJ Harvey, the Cranberries, and Björk, masters in the articulation of feminine anguish. – Lina Fisher
June 20-21
