Country UK Running Time 81 mins Format DigiBeta
Director/ Screenplay/ Producer Daniel Mitelpunkt DoP Nicolas Desaintquentin
Cast Kirsty Bushall, Philip Arditti, Mark Doyle, Nicky Wardley, Joanne Henry, Wendy Hubbard
Website: www.dayfornightfilms.com
Eleanor (Kirsty Bushall) wants to change her life - and to do so on camera, in the hope that this will provide a much-needed motivational spur.
With a relentless film crew tailing her and plenty of advice from the wrong people, she has no hope of success. Friend “Duckie” or Douglas (Mark Doyle) is surely her soul-mate, but the prospects of either recognising this are slim indeed. Highly-strung Izzy (Philip Arditti) will prove an unavoidable distraction. He’s a romantic at heart but has a disconcertingly frank manner which makes him awkward company. A strange but compelling little love triangle develops.
Eleanor’s life change is slow to occur, to the increasing frustration of the unseen director. It’s pretty clear her “life coach” isn’t going to help. Of course, it’s the people closest to her who know her best; her flatmate then her mother’s straight-to-camera pieces are thrillingly blunt – they steal the show.
Daniel Mitelpunkt’s decade of experience as a news and features cameraman is evident in this perfectly-nuanced mockumentary. His cast give captivating performances, in which scripted and improvised elements combine with all the subtlety and pathos that’s lacking from Bridget Jones-style dramas. Thirty-something singletons really can make good viewing. LL
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All screenings take place at the CineWorld, Trocadero Centre, Piccadilly, London W1
except Opening and Closing Night - CineWorld Haymarket
Access all areas:
- ticket to the Opening Night Gala screening of BROTHERS OF THE HEAD + the After Show Party (live music, and free booze)
- 80 of the best independent feature films
*150 short films (including animation, documentary and experimental strands)
- Q & A with film producers and
directors
- networking opportunities
- meet the people who decide what movies get made: Live Ammunition! (the super pitch event)
- exclusive tickets to Stanley Kubrick screenings and events
- four monster parties (Opening - Sept 27th, Sept 29th, October 3rd and Closing Night)
- ten industry panel seminars
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