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‘The Surfer’ Director Lorcan Finnegan on Why Nicolas Cage Kept a Rat in His Pocket, and Why You Shouldn’t Tickle a Snake
Lorcan Finnegan’s 'The Surfer,' screening at Taormina Film Festival following its premiere at Cannes, promises to be one of the year’s cult films.
A bizarro mix of Kafka and Ozploitation, the film boasts a late phase Cage performance and a psycho-comedy that appears all the darker for its sunbaked setting. [‘The Surfer’ includes a scene with a dead rat destined to join the pantheon of classic Cage memes.] The scene where he’s ranting about having a nice family dinner on the veranda with puttanesca pasta and clams for instance.
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