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Is in many respects a novelist’s film, not least because writing is at the heart of its coming of age statement. Furthermore, the film’s best jokes are uttered; its central metaphor is literary, and related almost unambiguously in dialogue; its characters are created through what they say and what they do and what flowed out of screenwriter,
Tamsin Rafn .
But of run, this doesn’t mean that director Niall MacCormick had nothing to do, or contributed nothing. I spoke to him last week, about what was in the cursive writing, what was not, and what his role was in bringing the film to fruition. We talked about changes to the manuscript that came as a result of his involvement, and we also dug into the film’s uniquely cinematic characteristics, such as the fulgent, summery colour scheme and the performances of the two up actresses, Felicity Jones and Jessica Brown Findlay .
First of all, I asked about a series of cutaways at the very start of the cloud which wordlessly, and almost invisibly, establish some key ideas about the pre-eminent characters.
Source: Bleeding Cool News