Glasgow Film Festival The Mule

Devilishly dark, The Mule celebrates a feat of human endurance rarely mentioned in the Guinness Book of Records. It is 1983 and gullible Ray (Angus Sampson) swallows twenty condoms filled with Bangkok heroin. He is caught by customs officers who have the right to detain him for seven days without charge. They just need to wait for nature to take its course. Ray is made of sterner stuff and vows that these bowels shall not move. A brutal thriller blends with pitch black comedy in a gutsy slice of entertainment that is all in the worst possible taste.