UK FILM CANNES 2015
www.weareukfilm.com www.britishcouncil.org/film INTRODUCTION
The 68th Cannes Festival presents a selection of The British Council, whose film team acts as a UK films and film talent in its 2015 edition. This link between UK films and filmmakers and new Catalogue includes details of all UK productions international audiences, works with a range of and official co-productions screening across programme selector teams from the world’s the various Cannes sections. It also highlights premier international film festivals, including some of the other titles screening which are the teams from Cannes, to arrange preview not official co-productions but which have screenings of the best new British films. Do significant British elements. note that the British Council also supplies an additional catalogue detailing not just the UK It is divided into Features and Shorts screening talent on show in Cannes but also highlighting in the Official Selection including Competition, UK films on current release as well as a Un Certain Regard, Out of Competition, Midnight selection of UK films nearing completion. You Screenings, Special Screenings, Short Films can download this at http://film.britishcouncil. Competition, Cinéfondation Shorts Selection org/british-films-directory/uk-film-catalogues/ and the parallel sections Cannes Classics, cannes Directors Fortnight and Critics Week. Find out more about the UK industry at This catalogue has been compiled by the www.WEAREUKFILM.com British Council, one of a number of key UK Film organisations represented in Cannes under the single umbrella of WE ARE UK FILM. A grouping of the UK’s film commission, national and regional agencies, together we provide clear information about our outstanding locations, services, films and talent, and we represent the UK Film industry enabling connections with both national and international partners.
2 UK FILM CANNES 2015 FEATURES
3 Amy Carol
Synopsis Synopsis From BAFTA award-winning director Asif Kapadia Set in 1950s New York, two women from very (Senna), ‘Amy’ tells the incredible story of six-time different backgrounds find themselves in the throes Grammy-winner Amy Winehouse - in her own words. of love in ‘Carol’. As conventional norms of the time Employing extensive unseen archive footage, this challenge their undeniable attraction, an honest modern and moving film shines a light on the world story emerges to reveal the resilience of the heart we live in. in the face of change. A once-in-a-generation talent, Amy Winehouse A young woman in her 20s, Therese Belivet is a instantly captured the world’s attention. A pure clerk working in a Manhattan department store and jazz artist in the most authentic sense - she wrote dreaming of a more fulfilling life when she meets and sung from the heart using her musical gifts to Carol, an alluring woman trapped in a loveless, analyse her own problems. The combination of her convenient marriage. As an immediate connection raw honesty and supreme talent resulted in some of sparks between them, the innocence of their first the most unique and adored songs of modern era. encounter dims and their connection deepens. Tragically, relentless media attention coupled with Official Selection Cannes 2015 - In Competition Amy’s troubled relationships, her global success and precarious lifestyle saw her life fall apart. As Details a society, we celebrated her huge successes but Year: 2015 were quick to judge her failings when it suited us. Running Time: 118 mins The talent that was initially her salvation eventually Director: Todd Haynes became the trigger for her disintegration. Amy Producer: Elizabeth Karlsen, Stephen Woolley, Christine Winehouse died from alcohol poisoning in July 2011 Vachon at the age of 27. Editor: Affonso Gonçalves Screenwriter: Phyllis Nagy based on the novel by Official Selection Cannes 2015 - Midnight Screenings Patricia Highsmith Directory of Photography: Ed Lachman ASC Details Production Designer: Judy Becker Year: 2015 Music: Carter Burwell Running Time: 125 mins Principal Cast: Cate Blanchett, Rooney Mara, Sarah Director: Asif Kapadia Paulson, Kyle Producer: James Gay-Rees Chandler, Jake Lacy Co-Producer: George Pank Costume Designer: Sandy Powell Executive Producer: David Joseph, Adam Barker Editor: Chris King Music: Antonio Pinto (original music) Production Company Sales Agent Principal Cast: Amy Winehouse, Janis Winehouse, Number 9 Films (UK), Killer HanWay Films Mitchel Winehouse, Andrew Morris, Blake Fielder Films (US) 24 Hanway Street Archive Producer: Paul Bell Number 9 Films London Linton House W1T 1UH Production Company +44 (0)20 7148 2025 24 Wells Street +44 (0)20 7290 0750 Globe Productions presents [email protected] London [email protected] an Onthe Corner film Sales Agent W1T 3PH www.hanwayfilms.com © 2015 Universal Music Cornerstone Films +44 (0)20 7323 4060 Operations Limited 12 Sunray Avenue [email protected] On The Corner Films London SE24 9PY www.number9films.co.uk/ 8-9 Greville Street +44 (0)7580 337581 London EC1N 8SB [email protected]
4 FEATURES Cemetery of Splendour The Lobster (Rak Ti Khon Kaen)
Synopsis Synopsis In Khon Kaen a lonesome middle-aged housewife A love story set in the near future where single tends a soldier with sleeping sickness and falls people, according to the rules of The City, are into a hallucination that triggers strangedreams, arrested and transferred to The Hotel. There they phantoms, and romance. are obliged to find a matching mate in 45 days. “I write this film as a rumination on Thailand, a If they fail, they are transformed into an animal feverish nation. It will be the first film that takes of their choosing and released into The Woods. place entirely in my hometown, Khon Kaen. It’s also A desperate Man escapes from The Hotel to The a very personal portrait of the places that have Woods where The Loners live and falls in love, latched onto me like parasites - the elementary although it is against their rules. school, the hospital, the library, the lake. Like the Official Selection Cannes 2015 - In Competition sleepers in this film, I shun the malady of reality, and together we take refuge in dreams of forever.” Details Apichatpong Weerasethakul Year: 2015 Running Time: 118 mins Official Selection Cannes 2015 - Un Certain Regard Director: Yorgos Lanthimos Producer: Ed Guiney, Lee Magiday, Ceci Dempsey, Details Yorgos Lanthimos Year: 2015 Co-Producer: Christos V. Konstantakopoulos, Leontine Running Time: 122 mins Petit, Carole Scotta, Joost de Vries, Derk-Jan Warrink Director: Apichatpong Weerasethakul Executive Producer: Andrew Lowe, Tessa Ross, Sam Producer: Simon Field, Keith Griffiths, Apichatpong Lavender Weerasethakul, Editor: Yorgos Mavropsaridis Charles de Meaux, Michael Weber, Hans Screenwriter: Yorgos Lanthimos, Efthimis Filippou Geissendoerfer Directory of Photography: Thimios Bakatakis Editor: Lee Chatametikool Production Designer: Jacqueline Abrahams Screenwriter: Apichatpong Weerasethakul Sound: Johnnie Burn Directory of Photography: Diego García Principal Cast: Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, Jessica Barden, Principal Cast: Jenjira Pongpas, Banlop Lomnoi Olivia Colman, Ashley Jensen, Ariane Labed, Angeliki Papoulia, John C. Reilly, Léa Seydoux, Michael Smiley, Ben Whishaw
Production Company Scarlet Films - Ceci Dempsey Production Company Illuminations Films Ireland, UK, Greece, France, +44 (0)7973 861543 UK, Thailand, France, (Past Lives) Netherlands coproduction [email protected] Germany, Malaysia 187 Beach Street Element Pictures (IE), Scarlet production Deal, Kent CT14 6LY Limp Films (UK), Limp (UK), Faliro Kick the Machine (TH), +44 (0)1304 371625 Yorgos Lanthimos House Productions SA (GR), Illuminations Films (Past [email protected] c/o Element Pictures Haut et Court (FR), Lemming Lives) (UK), Anna Sanders www.illuminationsfilms.co.uk 14 Newburgh Street Film (NL), British Film Institute Films (FR), Match Factory London W1F 7RT (UK), Channel Four Television Productions (DE), GFF Sales Agent +44 (0)20 7287 5420 Corporation (UK) Geissendoerfer Film-und The Match Factory (DE) [email protected] Fernsehnproduktion KG (DE), Balthasarstr. 79-81 Element Pictures UK Sales Agent Astro Shaw (MY) 50670 Cologne Lee Magiday Protagonist Pictures Germany 14 Newburgh Street 42 - 48 Great Portand Street +49 221 539 7090 London W1F 7RT London W1W 7NB [email protected] +44 (0)20 7287 5420 +44 (0)20 7734 9000 www.the-match-factory.com [email protected] [email protected] www.elementpictures.ie www.protagonistpictures.com
FEATURES 5 Macbeth Steve McQueen: The Man and Le Mans
Synopsis Synopsis ‘Macbeth’ is the story of a fearless warrior and By 1970, Steve McQueen ruled Hollywood. Hot off inspiring leader brought low by ambition and the back of classics like ‘The Thomas Crown Affair’ desire. A thrilling interpretation of the dramatic and ‘Bullitt’ he could now make the movie that was realities of the times and a reimagining of his life’s passion: McQueen’s experience on ‘Le what wartime must have been like for one of Mans’ changed his life forever. Shakespeare’s most famous and compelling Interweaving stunning newly discovered footage characters, a story of all-consuming passion and and voice recordings with original interviews, this ambition, set in a war torn Scottish landscape. is the true story of how one of cinema’s legends Official Selection Cannes 2015 - In Competition would risk almost everything in pursuit of his dream. Details Cannes 2015 - Cannes Classics Year: 2015 Running Time: 113 mins Details Director: Justin Kurzel Year: 2015 Producer: Iain Canning, Emile Sherman, Laura Hastings- Running Time: 112 mins Smith Director: Gabriel Clarke, John McKenna Co-Producer: Andrew Warren Producer: John McKenna Editor: Chris Dickens Executive Producer: Andrew Marriott, Bonamy Grimes, Screenwriter: Todd Louiso & Jacob Koskoff and Barry Smith, Chad McQueen, David Green, David Michael Lesslie (based on the play by William Reeder, Jamie Carmichael Shakespeare) Editor: Matt Wyllie Directory of Photography: Adam Arkapaw Screenwriter: Gabriel Clarke Production Designer: Fiona Crombie Directory of Photography: Matt Smith Sound: Steve Single (supervising sound editor), Markus Music: Jim Copperthwaite Stemler (sound designer), Al Sirkett (sound designer) Principal Cast: Neile Adams McQueen, Chad McQueen, Music: Jed Kurzel Siegfried Rauch, Derek Bell, David Piper, Jonathan Principal Cast: Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Williams, Louise Edlind, Alan Trustman, Bob Rosen, Paddy Considine, Sean Harris, Jack Reynor, Elizabeth Mario Iscovich Debicki and David Thewlis Archive Producer: Richard Wiseman
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent See-Saw Films StudioCanal (FR) USA, UK coproduction Content Film 2nd Floor 1, Place du Spectacle Noah Films (UK), Pitlane 19 Heddon Street 74 Rivington Street 92130 Issy les Moulineaux Productions (UK), McQueen London London France Racing (US) W1B 4BG EC2A 3AY +33 1 71 35 35 35 +44 (0)20 7851 6500 +44 (0)20 3301 6268 pascale.hornus@ Noah Films london@contentmediacorp. [email protected] studiocanal.com +44 (0)7957 402091 com see-saw-films.com/ www.studiocanal.com www.noahfilms.co.uk www.contentmediacorp.com
6 FEATURES Tale of Tales Youth (Il racconto dei racconti) (La giovinezza)
Synopsis Synopsis Based on an early 17th century collection of fairy Springtime. Fred and Mick, two old friends now tales by Neopolitan author Giambattista Basile, approaching eighty, are on vacation together in the film weaves realistic and fantastical elements an elegant hotel at the foot of the Alps. Fred, a together in a dark exploration of classic tales. composer and conductor, is now retired. Mick, a film From the bitter quest of a jealous Queen, to an director, is still working. The two friends know that Ogre thwarting the love of a young princess, to their time is quickly running out, and they decide to a mysterious woman provoking the passion of a face their future together. They look with curiosity King, these stories weave the beautiful with the and tenderness on their children’s confused lives, grotesque, creating a stunning and unique work of Mick’s enthusiastic young writers, and the other gothic imagination. hotel guests, all of whom, it seems, have all the time that they lack. And while Mick scrambles to finish Official Selection Cannes 2015 - In Competition the screenplay for what he imagines will be his last important film, Fred, who gave up his musical career Details long ago, has no intention of returning to it. But Year: 2015 someone wants at all costs to hear his compositions Running Time: 125 mins and to see him conduct again. Director: Matteo Garrone Producer: Matteo Garrone, Jeremy Thomas, Jean and Official Selection Cannes 2015 - In Competition Anne-Laure Labadie Executive Producer: Alessio Lazzareschi, Peter Watson, Details Nicki Hattingh, Anne Sheehan, Sheryl Crown Year: 2015 Editor: Marco Spoletini Running Time: 118 mins Screenwriter: Matteo Garrone (screenplay), Edoardo Director: Paolo Sorrentino Albinati (screenplay), Producer: Nicola Giuliano, Francesca Cima, Ugo Chiti (screenplay), Massimo Gaudioso (screenplay), Carlotta Calori Giambattista Basile (original story collection) Editor: Cristiano Travaglioli Directory of Photography: Peter Suschitzky Screenwriter: Paolo Sorrentino Production Designer: Dimitri Capuani Directory of Photography: Luca Bigazzi Music: Alexandre Desplat Production Designer: Ludovica Ferrario Principal Cast: Salma Hayek, Vincent Cassel, John C. Music: David Lang Reilly, Toby Jones, Shirley Henderson Principal Cast: Michael Caine, Harvey Keitel, Rachel Weisz, Paul Dano, Jane Fonda
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent Italy, France, UK HanWay Films Italy, France, UK, Switzerland Pathé International (FR) coproduction 24 Hanway Street coproduction 2, rue Lemennais Archimede (IT), Le Pacte (FR), London Indigo Film (IT), Medusa Paris 75008 Recorded Picture Company W1T 1UH Film (IT), Barbary Films (FR), France (UK), Rai Cinema (IT) +44 (0)20 7290 0750 Pathé (FR), Number 9 Films +33 1 71 72 33 05 Recorded Picture Company [email protected] (UK), France 2 Cinéma (FR), sales@patheinternational. 24 Hanway Street www.hanwayfilms.com C-Films (CH) com www.patheinternational.com London Number 9 Films W1T 1UH Linton House 1st Floor +44 (0)20 7636 2251 24 Wells Street [email protected] London W1T 3PH www.recordedpicture.com +44 (0)20 7323 4060 [email protected] www.number9films.co.uk/ FEATURES 7 UK FILM CANNES 2015 SHORTS
8 Love is Blind MANOMAN
Synopsis Synopsis Alice is in the passionate embrace of her young Glen is barely a man. In a desperate attempt to tap lover as she finally succumbs to temptation. But into his masculinity he attends a primal scream when her husband James unexpectedly returns therapy session. Surrounded by wailing men he home early, Alice finds herself in an emotional cannot even make a sound. When another member minefield. Wracked with guilt for being unfaithful of the class pushes Glen too far he finally lets just as James offers an olive branch, while something out - a miniature version of himself simultaneously negotiating her lover’s escape. which does whatever it wants, regardless of the Official Selection Cannes 2015 - Shorts Competition consequences. Official Selection Cannes 2015 - Cinéfondation Details Selection Year: 2015 Running Time: 6 mins Details Director: Dan Hodgson Year: 2015 Producer: Elizabeth Brown Running Time: 11 mins Executive Producer: Lady Best, Suzy Brown, Bill Director: Simon Cartwright Nicholson, Magapanthus Smith, Bob Hodgson Producer: Kamilla Kristiane Hodol Editor: Dan Hodgson Editor: Paco Sweetman Screenwriter: Dan Hodgson Screenwriter: Simon Cartwright Directory of Photography: Adrian Marciate Directory of Photography: Steven Cameron Ferguson Production Designer: Hannah Purdy Foggin Production Designer: Sara Taddei Sound: Richard Chesebrough Sound: Dayo James Music: Pete and the Pirates Music: Terence Dunn Principal Cast: Will Best, Sophie Allen, Ace Mahbaz Principal Cast: Gordon Pearson
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company Sales Agent Bird Flight Films Premium Films The National Film and The National Film and [email protected] 6 rue Desargues Television School Television School www.birdflightfilms.com 75011 Paris Beaconsfield Studios Beaconsfield Studios FRANCE Station Road Station Road +33 1 42 77 06 31 Beaconsfield Beaconsfield [email protected] HP9 1LG HP9 1LG www.premium-films.com [email protected] [email protected] (UK Sales) www.nfts.co.uk www.nfts.co.uk Coffee & Cigarettes Simon Cartwright 3rd Floor +44 (0)7946292790 121 - 125 Charing Cross [email protected] Road, London WC2H 0EW http://simon-cartwright.com edo@coffeeandcigarettes. co.uk +44 (0)20 7434 1524 +44 (0)7779 227 770 www.coffeeandcigarettes.co.uk/
SHORTS 9 Patriot Rate Me
Synopsis Synopsis Against the backdrop of simmering racial tensions A portrait of teenage escort, Coco. within her rural English community, the life of Cannes 2015 - Directors’ Fortnight eleven year old Hannah changes forever when she meets a boy from a forbidden part of town. Details Official Selection Cannes 2015 - Shorts Competition Year: 2015 Running Time: 17 mins Details Director: Fyzal Boulifa Year: 2015 Producer: Taina Galis, Fyzal Boulifa Running Time: 15 mins Executive Producer: Nik Holltum, Yoni Magid, Director: Eva Riley Scott Sullivan, Alisa Pomeroy Producer: Michelangelo Fano Editor: Taina Galis, Fyzal Boulifa Editor: Abolfazl Talooni Screenwriter: Fyzal Boulifa Screenwriter: Eva Riley Directory of Photography: Taina Galis Directory of Photography: David Pimm Production Designer: Tilly Shiner Production Designer: Irene Dimarca Sound: Anna Bertmark Sound: Robert Malone Music: Felicita Music: Antonio Nardi Principal Cast: Zehra Zorba, Leo Hatton Principal Cast: Halle Kidd, Rafael Constantin, Michael Elkin, Ray James
Production Company Sales Agent Production Company The National Film and The National Film and Too True Films Ltd Television School Television School 141 Wellesley Court Beaconsfield Studios Beaconsfield Studios London Station Road Station Road W9 1RH Beaconsfield Beaconsfield [email protected] HP9 1LG HP9 1LG [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] www.nfts.co.uk www.nfts.co.uk
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12 Index of Films
UK Film Cannes 2015 - Features 4 Amy 4 Carol 5 Cemetery of Splendour (Rak Ti Khon Kaen) 5 The Lobster 6 Macbeth 6 Steve McQueen: The Man and Le Mans 7 Tale of Tales (Il racconto dei racconti) 7 Youth (La giovinezza)
UK Film Cannes 2015 - Shorts 9 Love is Blind 9 MANOMAN 10 Patriot 10 Rate Me
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