Country: UK
Year: 2002
Duration: 94'
Spike and Heaton are a very unusual couple: two lonely people who have found each other. Heaton is taciturn and inscrutable. Spike, on the other hand, is happy and irrepressible. When Spike commits a terrible crime, Heaton decides to help him. The two end up fleeing to northern England, crossing heaths and immersing themselves in a countryside full of rivers and dark forests. Spike and Heaton aren't being followed by the police, but by a group of farmers who want to get revenge on them. Heaton is wounded in the leg. The farmers are about to catch up with them; at this point Spike has to decide whether to remain with his friend or abandon him and take refuge in the city.
"This is a story of both violence and tenderness, so I wanted to create a style with DV that lifted the film beyond gritty realism into something more lyrical. Rather than strive to mimic film, I was looking for another aesthetic" (B. Eltringham).
Biography
film director
Bille Eltringham
Billie Eltringham graduated from the Bournemouth Film School in 1992. During her studies she directed a short film, Lune, which was premiered at the London Gay & Lesbian Film Festival. The next year, she and Simon Beaufoy directed a piece entitled Physics for Fish, which was commissioned by the BBC and included in the series "10 X 10". In 1994, she made Linger, the first fiction film by Footprint Films. Three years later, she presented another film in Berlin that she and Beaufoy directed together, Yellow. In 1998, they finished their first full-length movie, The Darkest Light. The next year, Channel 4 commissioned Kid in the Corner, which was much appreciated by English critics.
FILMOGRAFIA
Lune (cm, 1992), Physics for Fish (co-regia, TV, 1993), Linger (TV, 1994), Yellow (co-regia, TV, 1996), Closer (co-regia, TV, 1997), The Trick Is to Keep Breathing (co-regia, TV, 1997), The Darkest Light (co-regia, 1998), Kid in the Corner (TV, 1999), This Is not a Love Song (2002).
Cast
& Credits
Director: Bille Eltringham.
Soggetto e sceneggiatura: Simon Beaufoy.
Director of photography: Robbie Ryan.
Music: Adrian Johnston.
Art director: Jon Henson.
Costume designer: Claire Anderson.
Editor: Ewa J. Lind.
Sound: Rupert Ivey.
Cast and characters: Michael Colgan (Spike), Kenny Glenaan (Heaton), David Bradley (signor Bellamy), John Henshaw (Arthur).
Producer: Mark Blaney.
Production company: Footprint Films.
Co-production: 1trange Dog/Film Council/Longfellow Productions.
Vendita all'estero: Celluloid Dreams, 2 rue Turgot, 75009 Paris, France, tel. +33-1-49708564, fax +33-1-49700371, e-mail info@celluloid-dreams.com.
Soggetto e sceneggiatura: Simon Beaufoy.
Director of photography: Robbie Ryan.
Music: Adrian Johnston.
Art director: Jon Henson.
Costume designer: Claire Anderson.
Editor: Ewa J. Lind.
Sound: Rupert Ivey.
Cast and characters: Michael Colgan (Spike), Kenny Glenaan (Heaton), David Bradley (signor Bellamy), John Henshaw (Arthur).
Producer: Mark Blaney.
Production company: Footprint Films.
Co-production: 1trange Dog/Film Council/Longfellow Productions.
Vendita all'estero: Celluloid Dreams, 2 rue Turgot, 75009 Paris, France, tel. +33-1-49708564, fax +33-1-49700371, e-mail info@celluloid-dreams.com.
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