Country: Belgium, Germany, Luxemburg, UK, France
Year: 2007
Duration: 103'
Maggie, a fifty-year-old widow, desperately needs to find the money to pay for the expensive operation her sick grandson needs. While walking in the streets of London, she notices a job vacancy for a hostess, and, without realizing it, she finds herself in a sex club. After setting her straight that the word “hostess” is just a euphemism, Miki, the club’s owner, tells her that her delicate hands would be perfect for a job he had in mind… “A sex club probably isn’t the best place to fall in love, but I liked the idea that the film’s main characters would fall in love right there: a place where no one would imagine it possible. Working with Marianne was an extraordinary experience. She isn’t the classical professional actress, she’s a real artist. And right from the very beginning she let me transform her into the Maggie I had in mind. Even when she didn’t like a line or an idea I had regarding a scene, she would still interpret it following my directions: she was very professional and, at the same time, a great artist.”
Biography
film director
Sam Garbarski
(Planegg, Germany, 1948) founded in 1970 the advertising agency Garbarsky Euro RSCG, for which he made around fifty commercials, winning several awards from some of the most prestigious festivals in the field (Cannes, New York, London). In 1999 he made his film debut with the short fiction film La Dinde, followed by La Vie, la mort, le foot and Joyeux Noël, Rachid, which won an award at the Giffoni Festival. Success led to his first feature film, Le Tango des Rashevski, which aroused a great deal of interest internationally, and won the Jerusalem Municipality Prize at the Jerusalem Film Festival. Irina Palm is his second film. Sam Garbarsky has Belgian citizenship and lives in Brussels.
FILMOGRAFIA
La Dinde (cm, 1999), La Vie, la mort, le foot (cm, 2000), Joyeux Noël, Rachid (cm, 2000), Le Tango des Rashevski (2003), Irina Palm (Irina Palm - Il talento di una donna inglese, 2007).
Cast
& Credits
regia/director Sam Garbarski
soggetto/story Philippe Blasband
sceneggiatura/screenplay Martin Herron, Philippe Blasband
fotografia/director of photography Christophe Beaucarne
scenografia/set design Véronique Sacrez
costumi/costume design Anushia Nieradzik
montaggio/film editor Ludo Troch
musica/music Ghinzu
suono/sound Thomas Gauder
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters Marianne Faithfull (Maggie-Irina Palm), Miki Manojloviç (Miki), Kevin Bishop (Tom), Siobhán Hewlett (Sarah), Dorka Gryllus (Luisa), Jenny Agutter (Jane), Corey Burke (Olly), Meg Wynn-Owen (Julia), Susan Hitch (Beth), Flip Webster (Edith), Tony O’Brien (il negoziante/shopkeeper), Jules Werner (il dottore/doctor), Jonathan Coyne (Dave), Tim Plester (Franck), Malina Ebert (Dunia)
produttore/producer Sébastien Delloye, Diana Elbaum, Thanassis Karathanos, Karl Baumgartner, Jani Thiltges, Claude Waringo, Christine Alderson
produzione/production Entre Chien Et Loup, Pallas Film, Samsa Film, Ipso Facto Films, Liaison Cinématographique, Ateliers De Baere, RTBF Television
coproduzione/coproduction MDM Förderung, Filmförderungsanstalt, Fonspa, Wallimage, i2i, Future Films Limited,
distribuzione/distribution Teodora Film
soggetto/story Philippe Blasband
sceneggiatura/screenplay Martin Herron, Philippe Blasband
fotografia/director of photography Christophe Beaucarne
scenografia/set design Véronique Sacrez
costumi/costume design Anushia Nieradzik
montaggio/film editor Ludo Troch
musica/music Ghinzu
suono/sound Thomas Gauder
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters Marianne Faithfull (Maggie-Irina Palm), Miki Manojloviç (Miki), Kevin Bishop (Tom), Siobhán Hewlett (Sarah), Dorka Gryllus (Luisa), Jenny Agutter (Jane), Corey Burke (Olly), Meg Wynn-Owen (Julia), Susan Hitch (Beth), Flip Webster (Edith), Tony O’Brien (il negoziante/shopkeeper), Jules Werner (il dottore/doctor), Jonathan Coyne (Dave), Tim Plester (Franck), Malina Ebert (Dunia)
produttore/producer Sébastien Delloye, Diana Elbaum, Thanassis Karathanos, Karl Baumgartner, Jani Thiltges, Claude Waringo, Christine Alderson
produzione/production Entre Chien Et Loup, Pallas Film, Samsa Film, Ipso Facto Films, Liaison Cinématographique, Ateliers De Baere, RTBF Television
coproduzione/coproduction MDM Förderung, Filmförderungsanstalt, Fonspa, Wallimage, i2i, Future Films Limited,
distribuzione/distribution Teodora Film
