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THE GRAND SEDUCTION

THE GRAND SEDUCTION
by Don McKellar
Country: Canada
Year: 2013
Duration: 115'


Tickle Cove has always been a fishing village, but the collapse of the fishing industry has severely affected the community: those who can leave town, seeking employment in the city, while the others seek welfare assistance. Their lifeline could be a plastics manufacturer interested in opening a factory in the area, as long as there is a resident doctor. The townspeople, led by Murray French, start looking for the right person, and when they find Dr Lewis, an ethically questionable cosmetic surgeon, they go out of their way to seduce him with the village’s charm.

Biography

film director

Don McKellar

Don McKellar (North York, Canada, 1963) is an actor, a screenwriter and a director. He made his directorial debut with the shorts The Bloody Nose and Blue, awarded for best Canadian short film in Toronto in 1992. His first feature film, Last Night (in which David Cronenberg plays a part), received several prizes in 1998, including the Prix de la jeunesse in Cannes, the award for best Canadian first feature film at the Toronto Film Festival, and was in competition at the 16th Torino Film Festival. He was again in Turin in 1998 with the short Elimination Dance, directed with Bruce McDonald and Michael Ondaatje, and in 2004 he directed the comedy Childstar. In the latest years he mainly worked as an actor.

FILMOGRAFIA

The Bloody Nose (cm, 1992), Blue (cm, 1992), Last Night (id., 1998), Elimination Dance (coregia/codirectors Bruce McDonald, Michael Ondaatje, cm, 1998), A Word from the Management (cm, 2000), Childstar (2004), Phone Call from Imaginary Girlfriends: Istanbul (cm, 2005), Phone Call from Imaginary Girlfriends: Ankara (cm, 2005), Michael: Tuesdays & Thursdays (ep: Small Talk, Unscripted Conversation, Vomiting, Sleeping with People, Endings, cm, 2011), The Grand Seduction (2013). 

Declaration

film director

“After they asked me to shoot the movie, I read the script and immediately found it very solid, so I watched the original version [La grande seduction - Seducing Dr Lewis, 2003, by Jean-François Pouliot, ed.]. It’s an old school film, along the lines of the Ealing Comedy, a social comedy about a big-city visitor coming to town. Nowadays, most comedies are based on psychological traits and they rarely outline a specific social dimension. So it was also a very fun challenge.”

Cast

& Credits

REGIA
Don McKellar
SOGGETTO
Ken Scott
SCENEGGIATURA
Ken Scott, Michael Dowse
FOTOGRAFIA
Douglas Koch
MONTAGGIO
Dominique Fortin
SCENOGRAFIA
Guy Lalande
MUSICA
Paul-Étienne Côté, Maxime Barzel, François-Pierre Lue
SUONO
Jean Camden, Marcel Pothier, Pierre-Jules Audet, Luc Boudrias
INTERPRETI E PERSONAGGI
Brendan Gleeson (Murray French), Taylor Kitsch (il dottor/Dr Lewis), Gordon Pinsent (Simon), Liane Balaban (Kathleen), Mark Critch, Mary Walsh
PRODUTTORI
Roger Frappier, Barbara Doran
PRODUZIONE
Max Films inc., Morag Loves Company

CONTATTI
Voltage Pictures
Tel: +323 606 76 30
office@voltagepictures.com
www.voltagepictures.com
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