Movie Title:
English: “Driving Around the Roundabout and Then Up Past Sports and Rec”
French: «Conduite autour du rond point et puis vers le haut après des sports et Rec »
German :  „Um das Karussell und dann hinter Sport und Rec oben fahren“
Other Languages : No title, because those three are all that count.[i]

Directed by Andreas Fouras
Produced by Andreas Fouras
Screenplay by Andreas Fouras
Cinematography by Andreas Fouras
Distributed by : MEGA Club

Rating: M [Possible Language, Occasional Nausea]

Other: Colour, 1min

Summary:
Fouras’ long awaited film debut is the arthouse feature “Driving Around the Roundabout and Then Up Past Sports and Rec”, or DARTUPS. Already hailed in some parts of the campus as a masterpiece, DARTUPS will leave the viewer convinced that Fouras is the most promising director since Michael Bay[ii].

DARTUPS is a difficult film to classify, being part suspense, part drama, and part comedy. It is partly this feeling of uncertainty which makes the movie an unsettling, although ultimately fulfilling experience. For instance, at one stage in the film, the hero’s vehicle is travelling around in a circle. Then, with little warning, the vehicle launches into a straighter direction, leaving the viewer gasping for air.

DARTUPS is a searing indictment against the world that has given Fouras, and his fellow postgraduates, so much trouble. One may watch sections of this film with a smile on their face, but will nevertheless be conscious of the many serious levels that lie beneath the grainy digital exterior.

If there is any criticism to be made, it is that the film rushes some of the more important speed hump scenes, while dwelling too long on the actual prelude to these scenes- the deceleration of the hero and his vehicle. Some may also question the necessity of using Sports and Rec as a subject, with its implications of erotic, sweat-filled tights and associated carnal activities.

Overall though, DARTUPS is a fine film, that will no doubt do wonders for MEGA in more cultured cinemas.[iii]

 Jon Dusting
MEGA President and Fine Arts Correspondent