Watch the trailer for A Clockwork Orange (1971).
“A monument of modern cinema”
The Independent
UK/US, 1971
136 mins
Cert 18
2K DCP
Dir Stanley Kubrick
With Malcolm McDowell, Patrick Magee, Michael Bates, Warren Clarke
Stanley Kubrick’s adaptation of Anthony Burgess’s decline-of-civilisation novel remains a chilling, thrilling and unsettling cinematic vision of nihilistic violence and social control.
Set in a flamboyantly stylised near-future where gangs of disenfranchised teenagers indulge in narcotic cocktails and revel in acts of ‘ultraviolence’, the film centres on Alex (McDowell) and his band of droogs.