Country: USA
Year: 2008
Duration: 78'
Against the backdrop of post-Katrina New Orleans, Dr Henry Jekyll,
a socialite and surgeon, is trying to get his life back on track and
remarry his ex-wife. Things begin to derail when he is reunited with
Hyde, a much younger woman and former flame who broke up his
marriage the first time around. Hyde is back in town working with
a relief organization, trying to rebuild the city, but ultimately the two
cannot resist each other and begin their dark descent.
“The movie is more about how the characters, and the city they live
in, are divided. The storm is part of that, but not the real cause.”
Biography
film director
Michael Almereyda
Michael Almereyda (Overland Park, Kansas, USA, 1959) after a stint as a screenwriter, debuted in directing in 1987 with the short A Hero of Our Time. He then realized Twister and in 1992 made Another Girl Another Planet, which won the Golden Gate Award at the International Film Festival of San Francisco. In 1995 he and Amy Hobby co-directed At Sundance. The Rocking Horse Winner, which was presented in Torino in 1997, won the Award for Best Short Film at the Hamptons International Film Festival that same year. In 2000 he directed Hamlet, with Sam Shepard, a fundamental encounter even for This So-Called Disaster (2003). In 2002, Happy Here and Now won the Jury Prize at the South by Southwest Film Festival.
FILMOGRAFIA
A Hero of Our Time (cm, 1985), Twister (1989), Another Girl Another Planet (1992), Aliens (cm, 1993), Nadja (id., 1994), At Sundance (coregia/codirector Amy Hobby, doc., 1995), The Rocky Horse Winner (1997), Trance (1998), Hamlet (Hamlet 2000, 2000), Happy Here and Now (2002), This So-Called Disaster: Sam Shepard Directs the Late Henry Moss (2003), Deadwood (ep. E.B. Was Left Out; Deadwood, ep. L’esclusione di E.B., TV, 2005), William Egglestone in the Real World (doc., 2005), New Orleans Mon Amour (2008).
Cast
& Credits
regia/director Michael Almereyda
soggetto, sceneggiatura/story, screenplay Michael Almereyda, Katya Apekina, James Robison
fotografia/cinematography Andrew Wonder
montaggio/film editing Rachel Gayle Webster
scenografia/production design Mara Leper-Schlopp
costumi/costume design Dana Embree
musica/music T. Griffin
suono/sound Abigail Savage
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Cristopher Eccleston (dottor/Dr Jekyll),Elisabeth Moss (Hyde), Dayton Callie (Utterman), Isabel Gillies (Kathryne)
produttore/producer Edith Leblanc
produzione, vendita all’estero/production, world sales Vodoo Pictures Productions
coproduttore/coproducer Aimee Flaherty
coproduzione/coproduction Unison Films
soggetto, sceneggiatura/story, screenplay Michael Almereyda, Katya Apekina, James Robison
fotografia/cinematography Andrew Wonder
montaggio/film editing Rachel Gayle Webster
scenografia/production design Mara Leper-Schlopp
costumi/costume design Dana Embree
musica/music T. Griffin
suono/sound Abigail Savage
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Cristopher Eccleston (dottor/Dr Jekyll),Elisabeth Moss (Hyde), Dayton Callie (Utterman), Isabel Gillies (Kathryne)
produttore/producer Edith Leblanc
produzione, vendita all’estero/production, world sales Vodoo Pictures Productions
coproduttore/coproducer Aimee Flaherty
coproduzione/coproduction Unison Films