Country: UK
Year: 2010
Duration: 124'
neds Glasgow, the early ‘70s. John McGill is a bright, sensitive boy who wants to study but instead has to struggle with a hostile school environment and a family which is victimized by his father’s alcoholism. John makes a decision and joins a gang of Neds (Non-Educated Delinquents). Bolstered by his brother’s status, John is caught up in a growing spiral of crime, drugs and violence. But when he decides to break free he has to find a way to escape a situation over which he has no control. “I think the best, though not the only, way to describe my overall approach to filming Neds is ‘impressionistic’, in the sense that composition, lighting, mise-en-scene will be determined as much by the inner life of the protagonist as by the events and people who affect him. I want the film to be bold. It has to create a unique, mysterious, volatile and often violent world, at the centre of which is a young boy trying desperately to work out his place within it.”
Biography
film director
Peter Mullan
Peter Mullan (Peterhead, United Kingdom, 1959) became involved in the world of theater when he was studying economics at the University of Glasgow. In the 1990s he began his career as a TV and film actor, acting in films like Riff Raff (1991) and My Name Is Joe (1998) by Ken Loach – for which he received the prize for best actor at Cannes – and Shallow Grave (1994) and Trainspotting (1996) by Danny Boyle. Alongside his acting career he also dedicated himself to screenwriting and directing and made three shorts before directing Orphans, which won best film at the Critics’ Week at the 1998 Venice Film Festival, and The Magdalene Sisters, which won the Golden Lion in Venice in 2002. Neds is his third feature film.
FILMOGRAFIA
filmografia essenziale/essential filmography
Close (cm, 1993), Good Day for the Bad Guys (cm, 1995), Fridge (cm, 1995), Orphans (id., 1998), The Magdalene Sisters (Magdalene, 2002), Neds (2010).
Cast
& Credits
regia, sceneggiatura/director, screenplay
Peter Mullan
fotografia/cinematography
Roman Osin
montaggio/film editing
Colin Monie
scenografia/production design
Mark Leese
costumi/costume design
Rhona Russell
suono/sound
Michel Schillings, Colin Nicolson
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Conor McCarron (John McGill), Gregg Forrest (John da ragazzino/Young John), Joe Szula (Benny), Mhairi Anderson (Elizabeth), Gary Milligan (Canta), John Joe Hay (Fergie), Christopher Wallace (Wee T), Richard Mack (Gerr), Khai Nugent (Tam), Ryan Walker (Sparra)
produttori/producers
Alain De La Mata, Marc Missonnier, Olivier Delbosc
produzione/production
Bluelight, Fidélité Films, Studio Urania
coproduttori/coproducers
Conchita Airoldi, Peter Mullan, Lucinda Van Rie
vendita all’estero/world sales
Wild Bunch
