A Look at Raindance

1 month ago 06th Oct 14:44

The Raindance Film Festival 2008, which is a true celebration of indie cinema, is in full swing in London storming into it's second week.

The largest independent film festival in the country this year's Raindance is celebrating a string of established actors and directors as well as introducing audiences and critics to a wealth of new and interesting talent.

Opening the event was Choke which stars Sam Rockwell and Angelica Huston, directed by Clark Gregg and is based on the novel by Chuck Palahniuk.

The film follows Victor Mancini (Rockwell), a sex-addicted med-school dropout, who keeps his increasingly deranged mother, Ida (Huston), in an expensive private medical hospital by working days as a historical re-enactor at a Colonial Williamsburg theme park.

At night Victor runs a scam by deliberately choking in upscale restaurants to form parasitic relationships with the wealthy patrons who save him.

When, in a rare lucid movement, Ida reveals that she has withheld the shocking truth of his father’s identity, Victor enlists the aid of his best friend, Denny (Henke) and his mother’s beautiful attending physician, Dr. Paige Marshall (Macdonald), to solve the mystery before the truth of his possibly divine parentage is lost forever.

Here at FemaleFirst we took a look at this year's line-up to uncover what you should be watching if you are attending the festival or what movies you should be looking out for over the coming weeks and months.

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