Schemers

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Movie
Original title Schemers
Country of production United Kingdom
original language English
Publishing year 2019
length 91 minutes
Rod
Director David McLean
script Dave Mclean ,
Khaled Spiewak ,
Kyle Titterton
production Virginia Lee ,
Dave Mclean
camera Alan McLaughlin
cut Martin Allison ,
Khaled Spiewak
occupation

Shemer (Engl. For " rascal ") is a film drama by David McLean , which on 29 June 2019 at the Edinburgh International Film Festival made its debut and is slated for release in the UK on May 8, 2020.

action

Davie is a dreamer and lives in Dundee . He falls in love with the pretty aspiring nurse Shona. His promising football career ends after an injury and after hospitalization, he tries his luck at college. When he realizes that he is not made for an academic career, does not want to have a nine-to-five job and he cannot pay his gambling debts, he tries to promote himself with his friends John and Scot. They want to book bands like Iron Maiden to perform at Caird Hall in Dundee.

production

Directed by David McLean . Schemers was inspired by McLean's own attempts to break into the music business in the late 1970s. Determined to escape his background, he became a successful music patron. During the so-called Swinging Sixties, criminal ghettos emerged in Dundee, the residents of which were called Schemers. With old industries dying all around them, and with the prospects bleak for someone like McLean, he began to take responsibility for shaping his future.

Conor Berry stars as Davie, while Sean Connor and Grant Robert Keelan play his friends Scot and John. Tara Lee plays Shona.

The filming took place exclusively in McLean's hometown Dundee. Alan McLaughlin acted as cameraman .

The film was shown for the first time on June 29, 2019 at the Edinburgh International Film Festival . It is due to hit cinemas in the UK on May 8, 2020.

reception

Reviews

Screen Daily 's Fionnuala Halligan describes the film as a vanity project by Scottish ex-rock promoter David McLean regarding his own youth in Dundee. McLean wrote an ubiquitous voice-over that acts as a kind of love letter to the younger self. The film is so absurdly convinced of Davies' irrepressible Jack-the-Lad charm that it has the opposite effect. Schemers never really answers the question of why we should care whether Davie is successful or not, while the 1980s soundtrack longingly reminds you of happier times seen in the 2016 Sing Street movie .

Awards

Edinburgh International Film Festival 2019

  • Audience Award (Dave Mclean)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.thenational.scot/news/17709033.how-a-music-promoters-life-led-to-dundees-answer-to-trainspotting/
  2. ↑ http://www.showlowfilmfestival.com/schemers.html
  3. ↑ https://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/whats-on/entertainment/10-movies-not-to-miss-at-the-edinburgh-international-film-festival-1-4949818
  4. ^ Program of the Edinburgh International Film Festival . Retrieved May 30, 2019 (PDF; 83.8 MB)
  5. ↑ Fionnuala Halligan: "Shemer" Edinburgh Review. In: screendaily.com, June 29, 2019.
  6. ↑ https://www.screendaily.com/news/schemers-wins-edinburgh-film-festival-audience-award/5140827.article
  7. ↑ https://www.edfilmfest.org.uk/eiff-2019-official-awards