Following

AroView: The debut feature of director Christopher Nolan, the kickstart of a nearly unrivalled career in Hollywood history, with films like The Prestige, Inception and Interstellar being part of a string of blockbuster hits largely based on completely original intellectual property.

Shot in and around his hometown of London on 16mm black-and-white film, this one flew under the radar before Memento really put him on the map, yet his sophistication as a storyteller was evident even at a micro-budget level where he sets the template for narrative puzzles that would become his trademark. It’s a quicksilver suspenser that concerns a hard-up writer who ‘follows’ people around the city, one of whom turns out to be a devilishly charming thief. But soon the nefarious stranger has turned the tables in a complex criminal game in finest neo-noir tradition.