THE CARS THAT ATE PARIS
4K Remastered
Directed by Peter Weir | 1974 | 88 mins | Australia | M | In English
Before he crafted cinematic poetry with Picnic at Hanging Rock, made his Hollywood debut with Witness, and broke hearts with Dead Poets Society, Australian master filmmaker Peter Weir got down and dirty with 1974’s The Cars That Ate Paris, a wild slab of motor-vehicular madness that shocked audiences with its anarchic violence and vicious satire.
Set in the small fictional town of Paris, Australia, Weir’s delirious black comedy tracks a community that deliberately causes car accidents on the winding roads that skirt its borders, and then sells and salvages all the valuables from the wrecks as a means to keep the small town alive.
Just as powerful and alarming today as it was fifty years ago when it was first released, Peter Weir’s acidic classic The Cars That Ate Paris will grind the gears and screech into the Inner West Film Fest.
Presented by the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia.
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