email print share on Facebook share on Twitter share on LinkedIn share on reddit pin on Pinterest

FESTIVALS France

We Want Sex triumphs at Dinard

by 

Scooping Best Film, Best Screenplay and the Audience Award, Nigel Cole’s social comedy We Want Sex [+see also:
trailer
making of
interview: Nigel Cole
film profile
]
dominated the 21st Dinard British Film Festival. The feature, released in the United Kingdom under the title Made in Dagenham, nonetheless shared the official competition’s Golden Hitchcock with Jamie Thraves’s Treacle Jr..

Unveiled in the Special Presentations section at Toronto and launched on October 1 in 354 UK theatres by Paramount, We Want Sex will be released in France in March 2011. Starring Sally Hawkins, Rosamund Pike, Miranda Richardson, Geraldine James and Bob Hoskins, the film (scripted by Billy Ivory) retraces the 1968 strike by 187 women workers at the Ford factory in Dagenham, in outer London, in order to obtain equal pay with their male colleagues.

(The article continues below - Commercial information)

Produced by Elizabeth Karlsen and Stephen Woolley for Audley Films, with backing from BBC Films and the UK Film Council, the feature has already sold well internationally through HanWay Films.

The other top winner at the Dinard festival 2010 was Thraves’s Treacle Jr.. Scripted by the director, the film centres on Tom who decides one fine morning to leave everything behind, including his wife, his children and an apparently happy family life in the Midlands, to go and live on the streets of London.

There he meets Aidan, a man-child who is incapable of keeping quiet. Like a stray dog, Aidan follows Tom who is too polite or too depressed to tell him to go away. Produced by Rob Small for Golden Rule Films, the feature stars Aidan Gillen and Tom Fisher.

Meanwhile, the White Hitchcock for Best Cinematography was handed to Bernard Rose for Mr Nice [+see also:
trailer
film profile
]
and the Coup de Cœur Award went to Stuart Hazeldine’s Exam.

Finally, in the short films category, the NFTS/Fémis competition was topped by Vicky Mather’s Brit animated film Stanley Pickle.

(The article continues below - Commercial information)

(Translated from French)

Did you enjoy reading this article? Please subscribe to our newsletter to receive more stories like this directly in your inbox.

Privacy Policy