SAMSON & DELILAH

Winner of the Cannes Camera d'Or for best first feature, this highly unconventional, nearly wordless love story tells of two Aboriginal teenagers--gasoline-huffing Samson and aspiring painter Delilah--who are ostracized by their outback village, steal the community car, and head for Alice Springs, where they lead a down-and-out existence marked by extremes of fume-addled stupor and sudden violence. Nonjudgmental but deeply compassionate, with a remarkable ability to tell a story through setting, framing, and gesture, indigenous filmmaker Thornton has been hailed as the most exciting new Australian director since the days of Jane Campion and Baz Luhrmann. In English and Warlpiri with English subtitles. 35mm. (MR)