Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of Anthony Burgess’s decline-of-civilisation novel remains a chilling, thrilling and unsettling cinematic vision of nihilistic violence and social control. Set in a flamboyantly stylised near-future where gangs of disenfranchised teenagers indulge in narcotic cocktails and revel in acts of ‘ultraviolence’, the film stars Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates, and Warren Clarke.
A Clockwork Orange will be back in UK cinemas April 5, 2019! Will u take a millennial to go experience it for the first time?
There are probably Baby Boomers in the UK that have not seen this film as well. Kubrick had the film withdrawn in Great Britain in 1973 after accusations of copycat violence. It only became available again after his death in 1999. This may be the film’s first wide release since then!