London to Brighton

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Movie
German title London to Brighton
Original title London to Brighton
Country of production United Kingdom
original language English
Publishing year 2006
length 82 minutes
Age rating FSK 16
Rod
Director Paul Andrew Williams
script Paul Andrew Williams
production Alastair Clark ,
Ken Marshall ,
Paul Andrew Williams
music Laura Rossi
camera Christopher Ross
cut Tom Hemmings
occupation

London to Brighton is a British film drama from the year 2006 .

action

The prostitute Kelly has taken on the twelve-year-old Joanne and is with her on the run from the pimp Derek. He himself is under pressure from Stuart Allen, whose father is a pedophile. Derek had asked Kelly to find a suitable girl. But the deal ended fatally for Duncan Allen. Now Stuart is out for revenge because he thinks his father was killed by Joanne.

Kelly and Joanne flee from London to Brighton and find shelter with Kelly's friend Karen for the time being. To enable Joanne to flee to Devon , where her grandmother lives, Kelly continues to prostitute herself. However, Derek tracks down the two women and brings them to the meeting point agreed with Stuart.

Instead of killing Kelly and Joanne, Stuart kills Derek, because Stuart only sees the two women, especially Joanne, as victims. He lets them go. Once in Devon, Kelly watches as Joanne is hugged by her grandmother and led into the house. She turns and leaves.

Reviews

For the most part, the reviews were positive. The lexicon of international films described the work as a “dense gangster film with convincing actors that captivates both as a genre film and as a milieu study”.

Björn Eichstädt confirms in the film magazine Manifest that the work is a film “that really knows how to surprise, that assembles its story like a dirty-gray puzzle that does not play with the clichés of street credibility and does not recreate the big new thing Guy wants to be Ritchie. This reluctance, in addition to the incredibly authentic actors, makes this film so good, so real, so really refreshingly different. "

The tightness of the not very long film was satisfactory, found Philip Marchand in his review in the Toronto Star . None of the dialogues are superfluous, the scenes are not a second too long.

Kyle Smith of the New York Post praised the directorial debutant Williams, who was able to increase the tension and at the same time convey a sense of doom in the midst of a dirty scene.

The TV Guide also rated the film positively. Maitland McDonagh made a remarkable directorial and screenwriting debut.

background

The film was premiered at various international film festivals. It was screened at the Edinburgh Film Festival on August 18, 2006, at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 8 of the same year , at the Raindance Film Festival for independent films on September 27, and at the Brighton Film Festival on November 19. In Germany it was shown on July 27, 2007 at the Fantasy Film Festival .

The film is a further development of Paul Andrew Williams' short film Royalty , which he directed in 2001. In this 13 minute long film the characters of the prostitute Kelly and the pimp Derek are introduced. Lorraine Stanley and Johnny Harris were already in front of the camera in the short film in these roles.

Awards

Paul Andrew Williams won several awards for his directorial work. He received the Golden Hitchcock at the Dinard British Film Festival , the New Director's Award at the Edinburgh Film Festival, the Evening Standard British Film Award for the most promising young talent , the Festival Prize at the Foyle Film Festival in Derry and the Jury Prize at the Raindance Film Festival . The film won the 2006 British Independent Film Award for Best Production . He was nominated for the Raindance Award and the Douglas Hickox Award .

There were further nominations for the best young talent at the BAFTA Award 2007. Lorraine Stanley for best actress, Paul Andrew Williams for best young director, and the producers received nominations for the London Critics' Circle Film Award .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Certificate of Approval for London to Brighton . Voluntary self-regulation of the film industry , October 2008 (PDF; test number: 115 477 DVD).
  2. ^ London to Brighton. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed May 14, 2019 .Template: LdiF / Maintenance / Access used 
  3. ↑ Björn Eichstädt in the manifest
  4. ↑ Philip Marchand in the Toronto Star (engl.)
  5. ↑ Kyle Smith in the New York Post (Eng.)
  6. ↑ Maitland McDonagh in the TV Guide (Engl.)