“Taut, powerful… The Handmaid’s Tale casts a spell, even as it spells out its dire warning.” –The Seattle Times

Before it served as the basis of for the acclaimed Hulu series, Margaret Atwood’s seminal feminist dystopian novel was controversially adapted for the screen by Oscar-winning German auteur Volker Schlöndorff and Nobel Prize-winning playwright Harold Pinter. With a star-studded cast featuring Natasha Richardson, Faye Dunaway, Robert Duvall, and Elizabeth McGovern, as well as a score by legendary Japanese composer Ryuichi Sakamoto, THE HANDMAID’S TALE seemed poised for smash success and awards attention. Instead, the film received a mixed response from critics and a muted performance at the box office. However, it remains a fascinating attempt to adapt Atwood’s introspective political fiction to a wide audience in the midst of the socially conservative Reagan Era that inspired the novel’s vision of a misogynistic, socially conservative future.

Richardson delivers a performance of quiet rage as the strong-willed and beautiful Kate (re-named Offred when she becomes a “handmaid”), who possesses a precious commodity that most women in the near-future world of Gilead have lost… fertility. In a brain-washing bootcamp that turns fertile women into surrogate mothers for social-elite men and their infertile wives, Kate thinks she’s made out well when she’s assigned to an eminent party leader (Duvall). But when she learns that he’s sterile, she’s faced with the impossible choice: produce him an heir or die.

This film as screening as part of Arkadin’s January-long spotlight on DYSTOPIAN VISIONS, chilling peeks into humanity’s doomed future.

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