STIGMA FILMS AND DIGNITY GROUP PRESENTS KALEIDOSCOPE DIRECTED BY RUPERT JONES STARRING TOBY JONES SINEAD MATTHEWS CECILIA NOBLE AND ANNE REID RUNNING TIME: 100 minutes INTERNATIONAL PUBLICITY Untitled Communications Laura Pettitt –
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[email protected] SHORT SYNOPSIS A year after being released from prison, middle-aged CARL WOODS has done well to carve out a life for himself in the outside world. Having procured some work and a flat, he now embarks on his first date in fifteen years. The event coincides with his estranged mother’s reappearance in his life, and her subsequent attempts to mend the differences that so violently drove them apart many years before. As Carl tries to withstand the insidious influences of his past, so he finds himself increasingly drawn in to the dark imaginings of his own psychological vortex. LONG SYNOPSIS London, present day. A sparse empty living room in a cramped flat. Frantic knocking sounds set off a dog barking. Carl Woods (TOBY JONES), an ex-prisoner with dreams of starting a gardening business, emerges from sleeping on the sofa and checks the door — there is no-one there. Exploring the house — he notices lipstick traces on a glass, an ashtray full of cigarette butts — he goes upstairs and is shocked to discover a blonde woman lying dead in the bathroom. Quick subliminal cuts reveal hands strangling the woman, then a wooden chair crashing down the stairs. Carl returns home from shopping and begins to tidy up his flat and iron a shirt.