The American Dreams: "Reflecting Skin" and "Passion of Darkly Noon" (Methuen Screenplay): Two Screenplays (Modern Plays) Book

The Reflecting Skin and The Passion of Darkly Noon form The American Dreams, two cult classics written and directed by Philip Ridley. Ridley's debut feature The Reflecting Skin caused a sensation at the 1990 Cannes Film Festival and went on to win eleven international awards. Set in the Idaho farmlands of the 1950s, the film follows eight-year-old Seth through a mythical summer where reality is heightened to the level of a hallucinogenic, quasi-fantasy. "A frighteningly assured directorial debut ... the film is a haunting, visionary tour de force. This tale of a child's blinkered view of adult dreads has an eerie, haunted radiance and hypnotic tug that may not come close to being rivaled."—Cinefantastique The Passion of Darkly Noon is a modern fable; echoing the surrealist style of Ridley's dazzling and innovative debut film. A young man roaming the American countryside, the victim of a savage attack on his religious cult, is rescued by Callie, for whom he develops a dangerous obsession... "Provocative, shocking and disturbing, a true original ... a masterpiece."—What's OnRead More