Previously unreleased in the UK, MALA NOCHE is Gus Van Sant’s directorial début. Shot on a micro budget in Portland, Oregon on 16mm, it’s a gritty, hauntingly beautiful black-and-white meditation on lust, love, obsession, and class. On Skid Row, Walt, a gay convenience store clerk falls for Johnny, a teen Mexican migrant worker, and later Johnny’s friend Pepper. But his original obsession ripens into an amour fou.
MALA NOCHE will be released on Tartan DVD 8 February 2008