Simon Arthur will attend the screening.
“That Silver Tongues remains consistently engaging and absorbing is due in no small part to Graham and Tergesen, who make the most of roles that provide much scope for challenging performances-within-performances”
Neil Young, The Hollywood Reporter
A multiple prize-winner on the international festival circuit, Simon Arthur’s Silver Tongues is a savage screen essay on the nature of performance. Gerry and Joan – Lee Tergesen and Enid Graham, perfectly matched – travel the eastern United States adopting various personas to mess with the people who cross their paths. Tough and troubling but with a wit that’s as black as your hat, the piece builds episodically, each encounter is a mini movie of diabolical design – the lead characters’ and the Scottish-born director’s – that asks serious questions about identity. If we reinvent ourselves for everyone we meet, can any one self be called special? What can we possibly mean when we talk about ‘us’? Derived from a well-regarded 2007 short, Silver Tongues is a debut feature of fiendish cleverness and control, a horror movie about the startling impulses in all of us, a movie that, as you regard it, stares right back at you with a pitiless, unflinching gaze. - Tom Hall, Filmmaker and screenwriter
Winner, Audience Award for Best Narrative Feature, Slamdance Festival
