33° TORINO FILM FESTIVAL
FESTA MOBILE 2015

THE LADY IN THE VAN

THE LADY IN THE VAN
by Nicholas Hytner
Country: UK
Year: 2015
Duration: 104'


Bundled up in layers of casual clothing and driving a broken-down military camper, Miss Shepherd is a rather unusual homeless person. One day, who knows how, she ends up on the very upper-class London street where the playwright Alan Bennet lives and decides to park right in front of his house. Even though he is perplexed by this strange vagabond who boasts of having studied in Paris, Bennett gives her permission to stay for what were supposed to be three weeks and end up being fifteen years.

Biography

film director

Nicholas Hytner

Nicholas Hytner (Manchester, UK, 1956) was director of the National Theatre from 2003-2015, where he brought in a new community of artists, produced in equal measure the classical repertoire and new work. He has worked widely in the West End and on Broadway and in opera, in London, Paris, Munich and New York. He received the BAFTA Award and Evening Standard Award for Best British Film for The Madness of King George. He then directed The Crucible, with Daniel Day Lewis and Winona Ryder. His theatre awards include three Olivier Awards, five Evening Standard Awards and three Tony Awards. He recently became an Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts at the Juilliard School.

FILMOGRAFIA

The Madness of King George (La pazzia di Re Giorgio, 1994), The Crucible
(La seduzione del male, 1996), The Object of My Affection (L’oggetto del mio desiderio, 1998), Center Stage (Il ritmo del successo, 2000), The History Boys (History Boys, 2006), The Lady in the Van (2015). 

Declaration

film director

“All the great universal stories are universal because they are so particular. Most of this story happens on a tiny patch of land. That tiny little drive outside a particular house in North London. […] The film is also about the act of creation. It’s about Alan’s realisation you don’t put yourself into what you write, you find yourself there. While Miss Shepherd is living on his doorstep he slowly realises this is what he’s got to write about. And in writing about her, he realises important things about himself.”

Cast

& Credits

regia/director
Nicholas Hytner
soggetto, sceneggiatura/screenplay, story
Alan Bennett, dal suo memoir/from his memoir
fotografia/cinematography
Andrew Dunn
montaggio/film editing
Tariq Anwar
scenografia/production design
John Beard
costumi/costume design
Natalie Ward
musica/music
George Fenton
interpreti e personaggi/cast and characters
Maggie Smith (Miss Shepherd), Alex Jennings (Alan Bennett), Jim Broadbent (Underwood), Frances De La Tour (Mrs Vaughan Williams), Roger Allam (Rufus), Deborah Findlay (Pauline), Gwen Taylor (Mam), Pandora Colin (Fiona Perry)
produttori/producers
Kevin Loader, Nicholas Hytner, Damian Jones
produzione/production
Bbc Films, TriStar Productions


contatti/contacts
Sony Pictures
press@spe.sony.com
www.sonypictures.com

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