28° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
TORINO 28

SOULBOY

SOULBOY
by Marcus Shimmy
Country: UK
Year: 2010
Duration: 82'


soulboy

 

Stoke-on-Trent, 1974. England is devastated by a serious political crisis and violent social unrest. Joe is trapped in a monotonous life, until one day he meets Jane, who opens the doors of the Wigan Casino, the home of northern soul, to him. Suddenly, Joe feels as though the world is finally revealing itself to him to the rhythm of a music which is already the symbol of a culture. Thanks to Mandy, who teaches him to dance and introduces him to a new lifestyle, he soon becomes a true soul boy. Increasingly fascinated by and immersed in the universe of the Wigan Casino, Joe finds himself having to deal with an ambiguous relationship that has arisen with Jane and Mandy.

 

“For me, great music, like great films, should be a journey of discovery. SoulBoy is such a journey for Joe McCain. This is his moment, like all of us in our youth, we discover a scene, a sound, a place where we finally feel we belong. That music becomes the soundtrack to the best years of our lives, and if that soundtrack happens to be northern soul, well, it don’t get much better than that.”

Biography

film director

Shimmy Marcus

Shimmy Marcus (Dublin, Ireland, 1966), a videoclip director for many musicians, including Fun Lovin’ Criminals, Snow Patrol, Gavin Friday and Skin. After debuting as a director in 1999 with the short 7th Heaven, in 2000 he made the documentary Aidan Walsh - Master of the Universe, the first Irish documentary to be distributed in cinemas. In 2003 he directed Headrush, which won numerous prizes, including best film at film festivals in Michigan and New York. At the moment he is working on the documentary Good Cake Bad Cake, about the Irish band Lir.

FILMOGRAFIA

filmografia/filmography

7th Heaven (cm, 1999), Aidan Walsh - Master of the Universe (doc., 2000), Ivor the Insomniac (cm, 2001), Headrush (2003), Breaking Boundaries (coregia/codirector Paul Davey, mm, doc., 2008), SoulBoy (2010). 

Cast

& Credits

regia/director

Shimmy Marcus

sceneggiatura/screenplay

Jeff Williams

fotografia/cinematography

Vladimir Trivic

montaggio/film editing

Andrew Hulme  

scenografia/production design

Rachel Payne

costumi/costume design

Elvis Davis

musica/music

Len Arran

interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters

Alfie Allen (Joe McCain), Martin Compston (Russ Mountjoy), Nichola Burley (Jane), Felicity Jones (Mandy Hodgson)

produttore/producer

Christine Alderson

coproduttori/coproducers

Natasha Carlish, Lorianne Hall

vendita all’estero/world sales

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