Israeli video artist Omer Fast delivers a startling adaptation of Tom McCarthy’s acclaimed first novel, starring Tom Sturridge.

Fast enthrals with his first narrative feature, a wickedly stylish London-set thriller adapted from English novelist Tom McCarthy’s acclaimed debut novel. A large black box crashes through the sky, landing on an unnamed man’s head (an intense and brooding Tom Sturridge). He spends long months recovering, having lost all memory and sense of self. Bursts of intense déjà vu start to plague him and, after a multi-million pound settlement, he becomes increasingly extravagant in enacting fragments of memory. He buys an apartment block with specific markings; pays animal trainers to pose cats on a roof; hires actors to work as neighbours, and stages a bank robbery repetitively, obsessively. Mirroring the protagonist’s mind and with echoes of Jonathan Glazer and Shane Carruth, Fast offers a narrative that is purposefully obscure, complex and almost certainly not what it seems.

10 October 19:00, TATE Modern

13 October 18:15, Hackney Picturehouse

Director Omer Fast

With Tom Sturridge, Cush Jumbo, Ed Speleers, Arsher Ali

UK-Germany 2015

97 mins