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Director Jonathan Demme, perhaps the most humanist American filmmaker since Frank Capra, surprised many with this twisted, pulpy detective tale that made history as the first, and to date only horror film that won the Oscar for Best Picture.

Through Demme’s brilliant visual filmmaking, we follow the story of Clarice Starling (Jodie Foster, in a career re-defining role), an FBI Trainee who is assigned to learn more and potentially receive assistance from captured serial killer Hannibal Lecter (Anthony Hopkins). With another killer on the lose, identified as Buffalo Bill (Ted Levine), Clarice and her fellow agents race against the clock to identify and locate Buffalo Bill before he can claim another victim.

“As in Michael Powell’s Peeping Tom, the cinema audience is implicated with a deadly look (blatantly that of a controlling, repressive and vigilant order) which pins down its victim. This shift of identification away from feisty heroine to obsessive killer pushes the spectator to the edge of his/her own abyss.” ~ Lizzie Francke, BFI

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