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Friendship's Death: Directed by Peter Wollen. With Bill Paterson, Tilda Swinton, Patrick Bauchau, Ruby Baker. In the 1970s, aliens send a female android diplomat to Earth on a mission of peace.
- (698)
- Drama, Sci-Fi
- Peter Wollen
- 1989-01
Friendship's Death is a 1987 film directed by Peter Wollen. Wollen's only solo feature, the film stars Bill Paterson and Tilda Swinton , and is the story of the relationship between a British war correspondent and a female extraterrestrial robot on a peace mission to Earth, who, missing her intended destination of MIT , inadvertently lands in ...
1987 1h 18m Sci-Fi. List. True to her name, Friendship (Tilda Swinton) wants all humans to get along. She's a robot from a distant world planning to exhort mankind to reform its violent...
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- Peter Wollen
- Sci-Fi
- Bill Paterson
Oct 12, 2020 · Starring Tilda Swinton as a visitor from another galaxy, the 1987 film Friendship’s Death, newly remastered by the BFI National Archive, is a unique sci-fi that found its director – celebrated film theorist Peter Wollen – working through some of his lifelong obsessions and enthusiasms.
Friendship's Death is a riveting piece of theatre with a bleak and thoughtful script written by documentarian, film critic, lecturer and essayist Peter Wollen. Set in Amman during the Black September riots of 1970, it observes Sullivan (Bill Paterson), a British reporter covering the unrests in Jordan at the hands of the Palestine Liberation ...
- (1.6K)
- BFI, Modelmark, Film4 Productions
- Peter Wollen
A robot messenger is sent to earth to appeal to humans to live in peace. Originally designed to go to MIT, by mistake she ends up in Amman, Jordan during the Black September riots of 1970.
When female extra-terrestrial Friendship misses her intended destination of MIT during a peace mission to Earth, she lands inadvertently in Jordan during the events of Black September in 1970. Rescued by a friendly British war correspondent, they begin a series of insightful conversations.
