Country: Ireland
Year: 2012
Duration: 87'
Richard is a scion from a wealthy neighborhood in Dublin. He is good looking and athletic; he is the most popular boy in school, and he is envied by his friends, whom he is very attached to. Once high school ends, what awaits him is a long summer of fun before university begins. During a party on the beach he meets Lara: winning her over is a child’s play for him. But one evening his world shatters. With a rash gesture, which he never thought he would be capable of, his life and
the lives of the people around him plunge into horror. Even though they had always admired him, from that moment on they will look at him differently. A doubt surfaces in his conscience and in the minds of his acquaintances: who is the real Richard?
Biography
film director
Lenny Abrahamson
Lenny Abrahamson (Dublin, Ireland, 1966) studied philosophy at Trinity College. In 1991 he made the short film 3 Joes, winning awards at the Cork Film Festival and at the Oberhausen International Short Film Festival. In 2004 he directed his first feature film, Adam & Paul, which was selected at the Berlin Festival in 2005 and won the Fipresci award at the Sofia Film Festival. He then directed Garage (2007), written by Mark O’Halloran (who also wrote the screenplay for Adam & Paul), winning the Torino Film Festival and the Cicae Art Cinema Prize at the Quinzaine des réalisateurs at Cannes. In 2007 he directed four episodes for the TV series Prosperity and in 2008 the short feature Dublin 26.06.08: A Movie in 4 Days.
FILMOGRAFIA
3 Joes (cm, 1991), Adam & Paul (2004), Garage (id., 2007), Prosperity (ep. Pala’s Story; ep. Georgie’s Story; ep. Gavin’s Story; ep. Stacey’s Story, tv, 2007), Dublin 26.06.08: A Movie in 4 Days (coregia/codirectors Graham Cantwell, Kevin Marron, Marc-Ivan O’Gorman, Rachel Rath, mm, 2008), What Richard Did (2012).
Declaration
film director
“Most of us know very little about ourselves. This is something that we begin to understand as we get older. But it’s an insight that’s largely hidden from teenagers. In What Richard Did we see teenager having to digest a lifetime’s worth of self-disillusionment in one big blast.”
Cast
& Credits
regia/director Lenny Abrahamson
soggetto/story dal romanzo/from the novel Bad Day in Black Rock di/by Kevin Power sceneggiatura/screenplay Malcolm Campbell
fotografia/cinematography David Grennan
montaggio/film editing Nathan Nugent
scenografia/ production design Stephanie Clerkin
costumi/costume design Leonie Prendergast
musica/music Stephen Rennicks
interpreti e personaggi/ cast and characters Jack Reynor (Richard), Róisín Murphy (Lara), Sam Keeley (Conor), Lars Mikkelsen (Peter)
produttore/producer Ed Guiney
produzione/production Element Pictures
coproduzione/coproduction The Irish Film Board
soggetto/story dal romanzo/from the novel Bad Day in Black Rock di/by Kevin Power sceneggiatura/screenplay Malcolm Campbell
fotografia/cinematography David Grennan
montaggio/film editing Nathan Nugent
scenografia/ production design Stephanie Clerkin
costumi/costume design Leonie Prendergast
musica/music Stephen Rennicks
interpreti e personaggi/ cast and characters Jack Reynor (Richard), Róisín Murphy (Lara), Sam Keeley (Conor), Lars Mikkelsen (Peter)
produttore/producer Ed Guiney
produzione/production Element Pictures
coproduzione/coproduction The Irish Film Board
