September 19, 2011 05:00PM EDT
Video: Essential Killing
Tags: Tribeca Film Festival Essential Killing Tribeca FilmWatch this exclusive interview with Essential Killing director Jerzy Skolimowski about Vincent Gallo's award-winning performance.
Telling the tale of a Taliban fighter who is captured by the US military in Afghanistan, director Jersy Skolimowski's Essential Killing is not for the light of heart—or for that matter, for those who can't seem to stay warm. After a turn of events finds Mohammed (played by Vincent Gallo) trudging through sub-zero terrain and doing all that he can to survive, the audience begins to feel the character's (and the actor's) frostbitten pain as snowy landscape after frozen tundra whiz by on the screen. 
Essential Killing was picked up for distribution by Tribeca Film, and is currently available nationwide on VOD.
In this Tribeca Film exclusive interview, Skolimowski remembers his shooting experiences and the pain he and his crew suffered while shooting in the dead of winter. Watch this one with a warm blanket at hand.
Like what you see? Now that you've learned more about why Gallo's Buffalonian roots led Skolimowski to cast him, and heard how the beginning of the film was inspired by his own near-death experience, check availability of Essential Killing on VOD in your neighborhood. You won't want to miss Gallo's award-winning performance (Best Actor: Venice Film Festival). 
Head over to the Essential Killing Facebook Page to become a fan and learn more about this dark and stirring morality tale.
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