The Nickel Presents - AFFLICTION
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About The Nickel Presents - AFFLICTION
AFFLICTION
(1997, USA/Canada, Paul Schrader)
In a snowbound New Hampshire town, a small-town policeman seizes on a local hunting accident as a chance to prove his worth—to his community, to his estranged daughter, and above all to himself. As he digs into the case, long-suppressed anger and childhood trauma resurface, pulling him into a tightening spiral of obsession that mirrors the cold, isolating landscape around him.
Adapted from Russell Banks’s novel, Affliction is a stark study of American masculinity shaped by violence, labour, and family legacy. Schrader’s restrained direction emphasises routine, silence, and winter’s oppressive weight, while Nick Nolte delivers a bruising portrait of a man struggling to escape inherited patterns. The film unfolds less as a mystery than as an inquiry into generational damage—unflinching, mournful, and anchored in a meticulous sense of place.
Doors 5:30pm
Film 6pm
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Where
The Nickel Cinema
117-119 Clerkenwell Rd
London,
EC1R 5BY