The Shining
Cinema is a screen onto which we can project our fears, torments and the monstrosities of the world. The screen protects us from what we see, but cinema has also permanently anchored our nightmares around a few powerful images (empty houses, hostile attics and basements, demonic masks, bloodcurdling grimaces, disturbing postures). Throughout the summer, the Cinémathèque québécoise will be presenting a series of films encompassing more than one hundred and twenty years of horror, reminding us that what scares us most is to make the deepest of our fears tangible and credible.
Jack Torrance, keeper of a hotel closed for the winter, his wife and son Danny are preparing for long months of solitude. Danny, who possesses a psychic gift known as the "Shining", is frightened by the idea of living in this place, a scene marked by terrible past events...
The trailer is in English original version, but the movie will be presented with some French subtitles.
Stanley Kubrick
Stanley Kubrick was an American film director, photographer, screenwriter and producer. After starting out as a photographer, Kubrick, a self-taught filmmaker, also became his own cinematographer, producer, screenwriter and editor. His thirteen feature films in a forty-six-year career established him as one of the major filmmakers of the 20th century. Four of his films are ranked in the American Film Institute's 100 Years... 100 Movies list: 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Dr. Strangelove (1964), A Clockwork Orange (1971) and Spartacus (1960).
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