Stanley Kubrick’s iconic A Clockwork Orange is an intelligent, visually stunning, disturbing and yet queasily entertaining adaptation of a great work of literature. Adapted from Anthony Burgess’s best-selling novel written in the invented street slang Nadsat, the film tells the story of Alex (Malcolm McDowell) and his thug friends, addicted to mindless acts of violence, killing tramps and raping women. Equally violent is the state’s aversion therapy Alex is forced to endure to cure him of his addiction…
Stanley Kubrick / UK/USA 1971 / 2h16m / 18 – Contains strong violence and sexual violence / Cast: Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates, Warren Clarke, John Clive.