ADAM RESURRECTED Special Screenings

Like his Oscar-nominated AFFLICTION ( 1997), Paul Schrader’s latest film deals with on individual
tormented by memories of horrific violence . Like MISHIMA ( 1985), it jumps boldly through time and
space . And like AUTO FOCUS (2002), it serves up on alternately playful and disturbing mix of sordid
reality and stylized, sexually charged fantasy What’s new and startling in ADAM is its black comedy,
which Schrader deploys in on attempt to overturn every sentimental platitude established in the Holocaust movie
genre. Adam Steiner (Jeff Goldblum), the film’s clown-victim-hero, survived the concentration camps
by working for the Nazis, performing for Jews being marched off to the gas chambers. After the war, he
landed in on Israeli mental institution in the Negev Desert designed for survivors. His incisive, manipulative
intelligence-he’s more brilliant than any doctor-and uncontrollable sexual hunger (is he the craziest
patient there?) keep us wondering: Who’s running the asylum? Noah Stallman adopts Yorom Kaniuk’s
celebrated 1971 novel, still one of the finest written about the aftermath of the Shoah. Goldblum, with
fine support from Willem Dafoe, Derek Jacobi and Ayelet Zurer, gives the performance of a lifetime,
reveling in every twist and quirk of Adam’s character.