Country: Spain
Year: 2007
Duration: 108'
The cop Graham McGahan, self centred and beset with doubt about himself and his job, a few days before Christmas is sent by his boss to man a police van in a suburban shopping strip, after violent murders rock the local community. McGahan starts to engage with traumatised members of the local community, as they deal with the afterburn of these terrible crimes. He learns to come to grips with his role as a cop and a man. “Perhaps the most chilling aspect of the script is the world in which it takes place: the horrors that unfold do so not in some cinematic facsimile of an urban dystopia, but in a place that is ordinary, familiar and unremarkable; a place that we instantly recognise as our own. So it is into our world that a monster has arrived. And even the protagonists and antagonists are people similar to whom that we see in our everyday lives.”
Biography
film director
Matthew Saville
, in addition to
contributing to the Australian comedy
shows skitHOUSE and Big Bite, has
made short films that have screened
at several festivals worldwide.
He has also worked in television drama,
directing The Secret Life of Us and
The Surgeon for Channel Ten. In 2003,
his Roy Höllsdotter Live won the Dendy
Award for Best Short Film at the Sydney
Film Festival. That same year, it was
voted Best Short Film at the 2003 Lexus
Inside Film Awards, where Saville
was also honored with the rising talent
award. He has recently completed
the libretto for a contemporary Opera,
which will be performed at the
Melbourne Festival.
FILMOGRAFIA
Franz & Kafka (cm, 1997), skitHOUSE (TV, 2003), Roy Höllsdotter Live (cm, 2003), Sweetheart (cm, 2003), Big Bite (TV, 2002-03), Hamish & Andy (TV, 2004), The Secret Life of Us (TV, 2003-04), We Can Be Heroes (TV, 2005), The Surgeon (TV, 2005), Noise (2007), The King (TV, 2007).
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura/director, screenplay Matthew Saville
fotografia/director of photography László Baranyai
scenografia/set design Paddy Reardon
costumi/costume design Kitty Stuckey
montaggio/film editor Geoff Hitchins
musica/music Bryony Marks
suono/sound Emma Bortignon
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters Brendan Cowell (Graham McGahan), Maia Thomas (Lavinia Smart), Henry Nixon (Craig Finlay), Nicholas Bell (Noel Birchall), Katie Wall (Caitlin Robinson), Fiona Macleod (Melanie Ryan), Maude Davey (Rhonda Harris), Luke Elliot (Dean Stouritis), Simon Laherty («Lucky» Phil Heydon)
produttore/producer Trevor Blainey
produzione/production Retro Active Film
distribuzione, vendita all’estero/distribution, world sales Arclight Films Pty Ltd.
fotografia/director of photography László Baranyai
scenografia/set design Paddy Reardon
costumi/costume design Kitty Stuckey
montaggio/film editor Geoff Hitchins
musica/music Bryony Marks
suono/sound Emma Bortignon
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters Brendan Cowell (Graham McGahan), Maia Thomas (Lavinia Smart), Henry Nixon (Craig Finlay), Nicholas Bell (Noel Birchall), Katie Wall (Caitlin Robinson), Fiona Macleod (Melanie Ryan), Maude Davey (Rhonda Harris), Luke Elliot (Dean Stouritis), Simon Laherty («Lucky» Phil Heydon)
produttore/producer Trevor Blainey
produzione/production Retro Active Film
distribuzione, vendita all’estero/distribution, world sales Arclight Films Pty Ltd.
