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THE HUSBAND

THE HUSBAND
by Bruce McDonald
Country: Canada
Year: 2013
Duration: 80'


Visiting your wife in jail isn’t easy, especially if she was arrested for sleeping with a fourteen-year-old student. After the scandal engulfed his family, life for poor Henry has become a nightmare with involuntarily comical tones: left to raise their infant son alone, he also has to deal with an unfulfilling job, with the frustration of the betrayal, and, above all, with a bubbling rage about to explode. But what are his options? Forgive his wife, keep on harassing Colin, the kid who ruined his marriage, or is there something else?

Biography

film director

Bruce McDonald

Bruce McDonald (Kingston, Canada, 1959) graduated in film from Ryerson University. In 1985 he shot the 16mm feature film Knock! Knock!, which was presented at the 4th Festival Cinema Giovani in Torino. In 1989 he won the prize for best Canadian film at the Toronto Film Festival with the movie Roadkill, the first chapter of his trilogy dedicated to rock’n’roll, followed by Highway 61 (1991), which won Best Director at the Festival in San Sebastián, and the mockumentary Hard Core Logo (1997), Best Canadian Film at the Festival in Vancouver. He participated several times to the Torino Film Festival over the years, presenting movies like Pontypool (2009), This Movie Is Broken (2010), and The Husband (2013).

FILMOGRAFIA

Let Me See (cm, 1982), Knock! Knock! (coregia/codirector Daniel Brooks, 1985), Roadkill (1989), Highway 61 (1991), Dance Me Outside (1994), Hard Core Logo (1996), Elimination Dance (cm, 1997), Fort Goof (cm, 1999), The City (ep. Gorky Parkette; Just Like Honey, tv, 2000), Lex (ep. Garden; Tunnel, tv, 2000), Road Songs: A Portrait of Robbie Robertson (tv, doc., 2001), Picture Claire (Sola nella trappola, 2001), The Love Crimes of Gillian Guess (tv, 2004), The Dark Room (tv, 2007), The Tracey Fragments (2007), Pontypool (2008), This Movie Is Broken (2010), Trigger (2010), Hard Core Logo 2 (2010), The Husband (2013), Hellions (2015).

Declaration

film director

“I loved the script, I loved the sideways approach at this kind of strangely common, modern ‘teacher and student sexing it up’ thing. This is the first film I’ve done about a family. […] It is an unusual family story, it’s not a family movie.”

Cast

& Credits

REGIA
Bruce McDonald
SCENEGGIATURA
Kelly Harms, Maxwell McCabe-Lokos
FOTOGRAFIA
Daniel Grant
MONTAGGIO
Duff Smith
SCENOGRAFIA
Andy Berry
MUSICA
Ian LeFeuvre, Todor Kobakov
SUONO
Urban Post
INTERPRETI
Maxwell McCabe-Lokos, August Diehl, Sarah Allen, Jodi Balfour, Stephen McHattie
PRODUTTORI
Daniel Bekerman, Cher Hawrysh, Bruce McDonald
PRODUZIONE
Scythia Films, Phenomenal Films, Shadow Shows

CONTATTI
Scythia Films
Riaya Aboul Ela
riaya.aboulela@gmail.com
www.matterhornintlfilms.com
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