31° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
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SOUTHCLIFFE

SOUTHCLIFFE
by Sean Durkin
Country: UK
Year: 2013
Duration: 190'


The British town of Southcliffe finds itself at the center of a sudden and bloody killing spree. A year later, David Whitehead, a journalist who had covered the case, receives a message announcing that more blood will be shed. Too bad that the killer that had been terrifying Shouthcliffe, Stephen Morton, committed suicide. Could it be a bad practical joke? Or maybe the threat of a fanatic copycat? David’s only solution is to go back to where it all happened and shed some light: a difficult choice for him, since he spent his painful childhood in that small town.


episodi/episodes

Hollow Shore
Light Falls
Sorrow’s Child
All Souls

Biography

film director

Sean Durkin

Sean Durkin (1981, Canada) grew up in the United Kingdom. He then moved to the United States, where he studied cinema at New York University, graduating in 2005. He made his first film, the short Doris, the next year, followed by Mary Last Seen in 2010, which was selected at Quinzaine des réalisateurs. His first feature film, Martha Marcy May Marlene (2011), participated at Cannes in the section Un certain Regard and won many international awards, including best director at the Sundance Film Festival. He is currently working on Janis, a biography of the singer Janis Joplin.

FILMOGRAFIA

Doris (cm, 2006), Mary Last Seen (cm, 2010), Martha Marcy May Marlene (La fuga di Martha, 2011), Southcliffe (tv, 2013).

Declaration

film director

“I read the script and I just felt like even without the spree killing, there was enough in these characters that you could make a drama about them and their lives and for me that’s always the thing. For me, I’m not so interested in plot, I’m interested in character, and if the characters are rich, you follow their lives, and that’s what matters to me. It felt like, on the page, I could have followed the characters even if there was no event.”

Cast

& Credits

REGIA
Sean Durkin
SCENEGGIATURA
Tony Grisoni
FOTOGRAFIA
Mátyás Erdély
MONTAGGIO
Victoria Boydell, Daniel Greenway
SCENOGRAFIA
Tom Bowyer
COSTUMI
Suzanne Cave
INTERPRETI E PERSONAGGI
Rory Kinnear (David Whitehead), Sean Harris (Stephen Morton), Shirley Henderson (Claire Salter), Anatol Yusef (Paul Gould), Eddie Marsan (Andrew Salter), Kaya Scodelario (Anna Salter), Al Weaver (Anthony), Amanda Drew (Jacqui Whitehead), Joe Dempsie (Chris Cooper)
PRODUTTORI
Peter Carlton, Derrin Schlesinger
PRODUZIONE
Warp Films
COPRODUZIONE
Borderline Films
DISTRIBUZIONE
BBC Worldwide
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