This film is based on
an unfinished novel by Siobbhan Dowd and completed by Patrick Ness. Conor lives in Britain and he has a lot
of trouble with the same nightmare. He lives with his mother and their home looks out onto a church and a graveyard guarded by a giant
yew tree. His parents are
divorced and his father lives in Los Angeles. His mother is struggling
with treatments for cancer and he’s very worried about her. He’s afraid he might have to move in
with his Grandma. Conor is shy, a daydreamer and artist. He also has a lot of problems with
bullying at school.
The scenery is very
beautiful and Conor’s mother was also an artist when was younger. No wonder Conor has nightmares, a lot
is going on in his life and he doesn’t have the maturity for processing these
events. He wishes he didn’t
receive a lot of pity looks from others.
Can Conor find out what his nightmare really means? Geraldine Chaplin as the Head Teacher was
72 at the time of filming.
108
min, Drama directed by J.Z. Bayona with Lewis MacDougall, Sigourney Weaver,
Felicity Jones, Toby Kebbell, Ben Moor, James Melville, Oliver Steer, Dominic
Boyle, Jennifer Lim, Max Gabbay.
Note: Imdb 7.5 out of 10, 87% critic 82%
audience on Rotten Tomatoes, Roger Ebert 3*, Amazon 4.3* out of 5* with 243
reviews.
Special
Note: Filmed in Greater
Manchester, Lancashire, West Yorkshire, Huddersfield, Derbyshire, England, UK;
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Sigourney
Weaver had an easy time with her English accent because her mother was
British. The church by Conor's house is St. Thomas’
at Heights, Delph, Oldham and it closed in 1963. In Conor's house, one framed picture in a series of pictures of young Grandma is
actually a publicity photo of Weaver from Ghostbusters of 1984. A theme park in scenes with Conor and
his dad is Blackpool Pleasure Beach in Blackpool, Lancashire, England. The school scenes were shot at Colne
Valley High School in Linthwaite, Huddersfield, England.
No comments:
Post a Comment