Blade Runner: The Final Cut

Director: Ridley Scott
Starring: Harrison Ford, Sean Young, Rutger Hauer, Daryl Hannah
Runtime: 117’
Year of Production: 1982

A magical blend of neo-noir mystery, future dystopia and science fiction, that finally acquires its decisive and completed form (courtesy of the director's “Final Cut”), “Blade Runner” reformulates (each time in a new way) a question that torments the human species since the founding of the world: what makes us human? Memory, intellect, emotion, the realization of mortality, the illusion of his uniqueness? Or maybe the awkwardness at the certainty of the answers?

Ridley Scott’s unsurpassed architecture is full of symbolism regarding the relationship between man and machine, the strength of the look, the power of the creator which transforms into the arrogance of the master. However, decryption is not the appropriate way for a viewer to unlock this unparalleled aesthetic experience, which renders priceless “all those moments lost like tears in rain”. Geli Mademli

40th anniversary screening, dedicated to Vangelis Papathanasiou