Paul Schrader: Writer / Director / Loner

Renowned for pioneering the “man in a room” psychological archetype, Paul Schrader’s work routinely wrestles with the dangerous friction between rigid intellectual discipline and chaotic physical temptation. Spanning crucial turning points in his career as he evolves from writer to writer-director, we follow him from gritty Hollywood prestige to highly stylised international art-house execution.

A fictionalised account in four chapters of the life of celebrated Japanese writer Yukio Mishima. This visually jaw-dropping, highly stylised artistic mosaic that blurs the boundary between creative genius and extreme obsession might also be Schrader’s most personal work.