Golden Bear winner Peter Mackie Burns has started shooting his London-set debut feature Daphne, production company The Bureau has revealed.
Emily Beecham [pictured] - who features in the cast of Berlinale opening film Hail, Caesar! - plays the titular Daphne, a young Londoner with a frenetic lifestyle who decides she needs to change her life after witnessing a violent robbery.
The Bureau producers Tristan Goligher and Valentina Brazzini developed the project in-house. The BFI and Creative Scotland are the main financiers of the film, together with The Bureau.
The company’s Paris-based sister company, The Bureau Sales, is handling international rights.
Mackie Burns won the Golden Bear for best short film in 2005 for Milk, about a girl trying to bathe her grandmother.
Nico Mensinga wrote the screenplay for Daphne in his second collaboration with Mackie Burns after the short Happy Birthday To Me, also starring Beecham.
The Daphne shoot kicks-off amid a high-profile year for The Bureau following the success of Andrew Haigh’s 45 Years, which won two Silver Bears for the lead performances of Charlotte Rampling and Tom Courtenay in Berlin last year, with Rampling also receiving an Oscar nomination, and is up for Outstanding British Film at tonight’s Baftas.
“Peter Mackie Burns has made some visceral performance driven shorts including the award-winning Milk,” said Lizzie Francke, BFI senior production and development executive. “It is great to be able to support him on the next stage of his film career
达芙妮的短评
看了跟没看差不多的电影 —— 鲨鱼苏打水
31岁,对自我和世界认知已经逐渐准确,想要改变难如登天,一个巨大的外力冲击就可以吗?能战胜自我惯性吗?非常难得的是,daphne找到了法子。就这一点,足够让我振奋。 —— 名字特别酷的人
电影所呈现的画面节奏观感很舒服,bgm迷人又恰到好处不过滥,无字幕也能一口气看下去。整体色调搭配非常漂亮,Emily的一头凯尔特红发太适合不过,影中演绎地也很自然能让人感同身受,尽管每个女性可能有的精神困境不是人人都能理解的。 ps.片中几位爱尔兰演员的口音好怀念~ —— lanvi_
emm…… —— 芋鱼熊掌
又一部弱情节,轻喜剧色彩的小人物日常流。相比其他艺术片,这类小电影剧作难度更小,水准更易把控,在没被流水线批量生产之前我还是很愿意消遣几部的。本作女主的精神困境还挺有趣——对未来生活失去期待,冷漠愤世,只有阅读齐泽克时一张臭脸才会融化——这其实有点单纯型精神分裂症的征兆啊! —— 白堕春醪