June 20th
The Jacket**
US/Canada/GB 2005. Warner Independent/Mandalay/2929 Entertainment/VIP Medienfons 1/2/3/MP Pictures/Rising Star/Section Eight. 103m. Panavision

In 1991 a Gulf War veteran is shot in the head, taken to a psychiatric hospital, and put into a straight-jacket which gives him the ability to flash forwards 15 years into the future - after his death.
Nightmarish combination of Jacob's Ladder, The Vanishing and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, which predictably doesn't make a lot of sense at first, leaving much under-explained before it moves on from one unsettling scene to the next, but quite smoothly done in a fairly downbeat atmosphere, to play down the preposterousness of it all, with some sensitive and occasionally eye-catching performances. Not for claustrophobics, however.

Written by: Massy Tedjedin, from a story by Tom Bleecker, Marc Rocco.
Producers: Peter Guber, George Clooney, Steven Soderbergh.
Director: John Maybury.
Starring: Adrien Brody, Kris Kristofferson, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Keira Knightley, Daniel Craig, Kelly Lynch, Brad Renfro, Laura Morano.
Photography: Peter Deming.
Music: Brian Eno.