‘The Surfer’ Director Lorcan Finnegan on Why Nicolas Cage Kept a Rat in His Pocket, and Why You Shouldn’t Tickle a Snake
variety.comJohn Bleasdale Guest Contributor Lorcan Finnegan’s “The Surfer,” screening at Taormina Film Festival following its premiere at Cannes, promises to be one of the year’s cult films.
A bizarro mix of Kafka and Ozploitation, the film boasts a late phase Cage performance and a psycho-comedy that appears all the darker for its sunbaked setting.
The Irish director of “Vivarium” and “Nocebo” spoke with Variety as the Mediterranean glittered tantalizingly in the distance. Were you familiar with surfing culture before making the film? I wouldn’t call myself a surfer, as I’m more of a skateboarder, and so I didn’t really know much about that culture.
And this whole toxic masculinity stuff never really appealed to me, but I didn’t want to reject something, just because I didn’t know about it.
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