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At NIFFF, Class Struggle Retrospective Invites Attendees to Eat the Rich

Titles like 'Snowpiercer,' 'American Psycho' and 'Rope' lead Neuchatel retrospective focusing on class conflict.

The far-ranging program tackles nearly a century worth of upper-class perfidy, beginning with Yakov Protazanov’s early-Soviet sci-fi “Aelita” from 1924 and running through to Jenna Cato Bass’ South African servitude creeper “Good Madam” from 2021. In between are landmarks like Alfred Hitchcock’s “Rope” and Luis Buñuel’s “The Exterminating Angel,” cult classics like Oshii Mamoru’s “Ghost in the Shell” and Mary Harron’s “American Psycho,” and modern standouts like Bong Joon-ho’s “Snowpiercer” and Ari Aster’s “Midsommar.” Of course, no one film better encapsulates the Eat the Rich ethos than Brian Yuzna’s 1989 bad taste body horror comedy “Society,” a grand-guignol gross-out that skewers the upper-crust with manic glee, and that served as Walder’s north star and moodboard when thinking about the wider selection.

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