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OPENS OCT. 29 IN LOS ANGELES AT LAEMMLE'S SUNSET 5




AND NOV. 12 IN NEW YORK AT THE QUAD CINEMA


Written, Directed, Produced and Starring Scott Ryan

Nominated for Best Actor-Film Critics Circle of Australia Awards

Winner of Melbourne Underground Film Festival-Best Film, Best Actor, Best Director

When Melbourne hit-man Ray Shoesmith discovers that his next-door neighbor is a film student, he commissions him to document his life. The footage is to be released in the event of his early death. The focus is not on the violence, but on the conversation, the banalities and intensities of human interaction and obsessive interest in detail. We see what makes Ray tick, even as we witness his brutal efficiency. This darkly comic tale is fictional narrative, shot like a documentary. Its main character is a likeable killer, whose strangely moral illustrations take a jab at everything from the legalization of drugs to the prevalence of gays in Hollywood.


THE MAGICIAN will be shown in tandem with Robert Young's acclaimed Nazi war-crimes trial drama EICHMANN, and Roger Spottiswoode's SHAKE HANDS WITH THE DEVIL, an acclaimed narrative film based on Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire's award-winning book about the Rwandan genocide.