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Wednesday, April 25, 2012

THE 55TH SAN FRANCISCO INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL - Night Seven
Audience Members Don't Comply: 30 Walk Out During Festival's Debut Screening Of "Compliance"


Ann Dowd as Sandra, the manager of Chickwich, a fast-food restaurant at the center of the troubling, divisive and excellent "Compliance".  Magnolia Pictures
    
by Omar P.L. Moore/PopcornReel.com        FOLLOW                                            TWEET
Wednesday, April 25, 2012

SAN FRANCISCO

Tonight "The International", as it is colloquially referred as, experienced something it hadn't encountered in its 54-year-history of its debut screenings: an unprecedented number of early exiting patrons during Craig Zobel's drama "Compliance", a film met with similar responses at Sundance, where the film had its world premiere in January.

One by one, sometimes in threes and fours, audience members walked out of the Sundance Kabuki Theater 250-seat auditorium here where "Compliance" was showing.  The film takes place in Ohio at a fictional fast-food restaurant named Chickwich.  A 19-year-old employee is accused of stealing money from a customer's purse at the restaurant, accused by a voice on a telephone who says he is a police officer.  The manager is told by the voice to detain the employee and search her. 

"Compliance" is anger-inducing, and various audience members (including this writer) were shouting and cursing at the big screen.  The screening made for quite a night of fireworks and animated responses, and "Compliance" got a solid round of applause from the 75 percent or so who stayed through the end of the film.

The next (and final) screening of "Compliance" will be at the Sundance Kabuki Cinemas on Sunday evening at 5:30.

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