Documentary
In a recent study conducted by Sky marking the one-year anniversary Sky Documentaries, two in five Brits admit to watching more documentaries over the last 12 months than ever before. With those numbers in mind, the broadcaster has unveiled five new original commissions and released a first trailer for its highly anticipated upcoming docuseries “Murder at the Cottage: The Search for Justice for Sophie,” announcing that the series will premiere on Sky Crime and streaming service Now on Sunday, June 20.
“Murder at the Cottage” is produced, directed and features six-time Oscar nominated director Jim Sheridan, who spent more than a decade documenting the 25-year-old case of French film and TV producer Sophie Toscan Du Plantier, wife of filmmaker Daniel Toscan du Plantier, who was murdered at her holiday home in Schull, West Cork.
New documentaries announced by Sky include:
“Mother Teresa: For the Love of God?”, a look at the...
In a recent study conducted by Sky marking the one-year anniversary Sky Documentaries, two in five Brits admit to watching more documentaries over the last 12 months than ever before. With those numbers in mind, the broadcaster has unveiled five new original commissions and released a first trailer for its highly anticipated upcoming docuseries “Murder at the Cottage: The Search for Justice for Sophie,” announcing that the series will premiere on Sky Crime and streaming service Now on Sunday, June 20.
“Murder at the Cottage” is produced, directed and features six-time Oscar nominated director Jim Sheridan, who spent more than a decade documenting the 25-year-old case of French film and TV producer Sophie Toscan Du Plantier, wife of filmmaker Daniel Toscan du Plantier, who was murdered at her holiday home in Schull, West Cork.
New documentaries announced by Sky include:
“Mother Teresa: For the Love of God?”, a look at the...
- 6/9/2021
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Catalyst Global Media to produce Owen Sheers’ critically applauded verse drama and stage play.
London-based film and TV production company Catalyst Global Media has boarded Owen Sheers’ verse-drama Pink Mist.
The text, which was named Wales Book of the Year in 2014, was also adapted for the stage and performed at The Bristol Old Vic and the Bush Theatre in London, subseuqently being named one of the Top 10 plays of 2015 by The Guardian and Observer.
The story focuses on three young soldiers who leave Bristol to fight in Afghanistan and return home to the women in their lives (a mother, a wife, a girlfriend) suffering the trauma and psychological after-effects of their experiences on the battlefield.
Catalyst Global Media was launched in 2015 by former Matador Pictures producer Charlotte Walls.
Walls commented on the Pink Mist news: “Great films always start with great material, and we know we have this with Pink Mist. Telling the powerful...
London-based film and TV production company Catalyst Global Media has boarded Owen Sheers’ verse-drama Pink Mist.
The text, which was named Wales Book of the Year in 2014, was also adapted for the stage and performed at The Bristol Old Vic and the Bush Theatre in London, subseuqently being named one of the Top 10 plays of 2015 by The Guardian and Observer.
The story focuses on three young soldiers who leave Bristol to fight in Afghanistan and return home to the women in their lives (a mother, a wife, a girlfriend) suffering the trauma and psychological after-effects of their experiences on the battlefield.
Catalyst Global Media was launched in 2015 by former Matador Pictures producer Charlotte Walls.
Walls commented on the Pink Mist news: “Great films always start with great material, and we know we have this with Pink Mist. Telling the powerful...
- 12/7/2016
- ScreenDaily
Catalyst Global Media, the London-based television and film production company led by Charlotte Walls, is making a feature film version of poet and novelist Owen Sheers' Pink Mist. The drama, which has already been made into a stage version at the Bush Theatre and The Bristol Old Vic, is about three young soldiers from Bristol who are deployed to Afghanistan. Childhood friends still in their teens, each have their reasons for enlisting and within a short space fo time…...
- 12/7/2016
- Deadline
It's been a busy month for Catalyst Global Media, the London-based startup launched last year by former Matador Pictures producer Charlotte Walls.
Less than a week after announcing a writer for its upcoming TV adaptation of Ya novel Cuckoo Song, the banner has added another project to its slate, this time for the big screen.
Catalyst announced Wednesday that it will adapt Pink Mist, the hard-hitting verse-drama from poet and novelist Owen Sheers that was named Welsh Book of the Year in 2013. The story centers on three childhood friends from the U.K. who are deployed to fight in Afghanistan...
Less than a week after announcing a writer for its upcoming TV adaptation of Ya novel Cuckoo Song, the banner has added another project to its slate, this time for the big screen.
Catalyst announced Wednesday that it will adapt Pink Mist, the hard-hitting verse-drama from poet and novelist Owen Sheers that was named Welsh Book of the Year in 2013. The story centers on three childhood friends from the U.K. who are deployed to fight in Afghanistan...
- 12/7/2016
- by Alex Ritman
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
UK production company launches with finance partner Gennaker.
Western Edge Pictures (Wep) has launched with finance partner Gennaker and Film Agency Wales funding.
Gennaker will invest up to £5m in its first phase across two years with a bespoke approach to each film deal. Wep has also received £88,500 in company support investment from Film Agency for Wales.
The partnership which will share offices in Wales and in London, has already forged a number of co-production deals with production partners including the Irish Film Board and Matador Pictures.
Boxing documentary Mr. Calzaghe, directed by Vaughan Sivell, will be the next film out of the new partnership, with a slate that also includes Ivan Kavanagh’s The Canal, Sivell’s Bloodlines:jcm, A Visit to America (written by Owen Sheers), Outlaws (written by Sally Griffiths and Rachel Cuperman) and sci-fi feature Photographic Memory Recalls the Highlights of the Year (written by Tom Betts and Ellen Waddell).
Wep’s CEO Sivell...
Western Edge Pictures (Wep) has launched with finance partner Gennaker and Film Agency Wales funding.
Gennaker will invest up to £5m in its first phase across two years with a bespoke approach to each film deal. Wep has also received £88,500 in company support investment from Film Agency for Wales.
The partnership which will share offices in Wales and in London, has already forged a number of co-production deals with production partners including the Irish Film Board and Matador Pictures.
Boxing documentary Mr. Calzaghe, directed by Vaughan Sivell, will be the next film out of the new partnership, with a slate that also includes Ivan Kavanagh’s The Canal, Sivell’s Bloodlines:jcm, A Visit to America (written by Owen Sheers), Outlaws (written by Sally Griffiths and Rachel Cuperman) and sci-fi feature Photographic Memory Recalls the Highlights of the Year (written by Tom Betts and Ellen Waddell).
Wep’s CEO Sivell...
- 5/12/2014
- by ian.sandwell@screendaily.com (Ian Sandwell)
- ScreenDaily
The Cabin In The Woods (15)
(Drew Goddard, 2011, Us) Richard Jenkins, Bradley Whitford, Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchison, Fran Kranz. 95 mins
It's clear from the outset this Jj Abrams-produced genre offering isn't your standard slasher movie, as a traditional teen country break set-up is monitored by wisecracking officials in some mysterious bunker. But exactly what the twist is, it's better to discover for yourself. Let's just say it gives the horror formula an exhilarating jolt without destroying it, in a Lost-meets-Scooby-Doo sort of way – a meta-mystery tour signposted with spoiler alerts.
Battleship (12A)
(Peter Berg, 2012, Us) Taylor Kitsch, Liam Neeson, Alexander Skarsgård, Rihanna. 131 mins
After the triumph of Transformers, Hasbro spin off another of their products, resulting in an effects-driven alien invasion that looks a lot like, er, Transformers. Expect Michael Bay-scale destruction, lots of CG explosions and military heroism, with extra cheese.
A Night To Remember (PG)
(Roy Ward Baker,...
(Drew Goddard, 2011, Us) Richard Jenkins, Bradley Whitford, Chris Hemsworth, Anna Hutchison, Fran Kranz. 95 mins
It's clear from the outset this Jj Abrams-produced genre offering isn't your standard slasher movie, as a traditional teen country break set-up is monitored by wisecracking officials in some mysterious bunker. But exactly what the twist is, it's better to discover for yourself. Let's just say it gives the horror formula an exhilarating jolt without destroying it, in a Lost-meets-Scooby-Doo sort of way – a meta-mystery tour signposted with spoiler alerts.
Battleship (12A)
(Peter Berg, 2012, Us) Taylor Kitsch, Liam Neeson, Alexander Skarsgård, Rihanna. 131 mins
After the triumph of Transformers, Hasbro spin off another of their products, resulting in an effects-driven alien invasion that looks a lot like, er, Transformers. Expect Michael Bay-scale destruction, lots of CG explosions and military heroism, with extra cheese.
A Night To Remember (PG)
(Roy Ward Baker,...
- 4/13/2012
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
★★★☆☆ Ignore the bombastic DVD/Blu-ray cover with its armour-clad Nazi soldiers and pyrotechnics - the newly released Resistance (2011) couldn't be much further away from an exploitative, WWII romp. From debut British director Amit Gupta - and adapted from the 2007 novel of the same name by Owen Sheers - the film is a strange, ethereal piece set in a remote Welsh village outside of Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, now occupied by German forces after the hypothetical failure of the 1944 D-Day landings. Read more »...
- 3/20/2012
- by CineVue
- CineVue
Dreams of a Life; Moneyball; Snowtown; Weekend; The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn; Resistance; Wreckers
While many mawkish middle-of-the-road melodramas are lazily referred to as "heartbreaking", few films are as genuinely deserving of that epithet as Carol Morley's Dreams of a Life (2011, Dogwoof, E). An insightful account of the life and death of Joyce Vincent, a vibrant young woman who lay undiscovered in her flat for years after slipping through the cracks in an increasingly alienated, isolated society, this sobering cocktail of drama and documentary is at once engaging and enraging, enthralling and appalling.
Interweaving soul-searching contributions from Vincent's friends and lovers with hauntingly dreamy reconstruction footage, Morley paints a fable-like picture of a fractured personality, seen in tantalising glimpses through the memories of those who (never really?) knew her. Audiotape recordings of Vincent's voice (she was a promising singer) prompt uncanny reactions from the interviewees,...
While many mawkish middle-of-the-road melodramas are lazily referred to as "heartbreaking", few films are as genuinely deserving of that epithet as Carol Morley's Dreams of a Life (2011, Dogwoof, E). An insightful account of the life and death of Joyce Vincent, a vibrant young woman who lay undiscovered in her flat for years after slipping through the cracks in an increasingly alienated, isolated society, this sobering cocktail of drama and documentary is at once engaging and enraging, enthralling and appalling.
Interweaving soul-searching contributions from Vincent's friends and lovers with hauntingly dreamy reconstruction footage, Morley paints a fable-like picture of a fractured personality, seen in tantalising glimpses through the memories of those who (never really?) knew her. Audiotape recordings of Vincent's voice (she was a promising singer) prompt uncanny reactions from the interviewees,...
- 3/19/2012
- by Mark Kermode
- The Guardian - Film News
Keswick Film Festival
The paparazzi won't exactly be beating a path to the Lake District for this, but it's a small festival with an agreeably broad outlook. The guest of honour is John Hurt, who's in conversation and introducing a number of movies from his prolific career, including his celebrated Quentin Crisp double bill. There's also a tribute to the versatile Tony Palmer, including his seminal Leonard Cohen movie Bird On A Wire, and a complete showing of his eight-hour Wagner series (starring Richard Burton and Laurence Olivier). Also in the mix are recent releases such as Tyrannosaur and Melancholia, award-winning world cinema and uplifting films about life-changing illnesses.
Various venues, Thu to 26 Feb, keswickfilmclub.org/kff
Exposures: New Talent In Moving Image, Manchester
God knows it's not easy being a student these days, but at least you get your own film festivals. This is the UK's largest, and therefore...
The paparazzi won't exactly be beating a path to the Lake District for this, but it's a small festival with an agreeably broad outlook. The guest of honour is John Hurt, who's in conversation and introducing a number of movies from his prolific career, including his celebrated Quentin Crisp double bill. There's also a tribute to the versatile Tony Palmer, including his seminal Leonard Cohen movie Bird On A Wire, and a complete showing of his eight-hour Wagner series (starring Richard Burton and Laurence Olivier). Also in the mix are recent releases such as Tyrannosaur and Melancholia, award-winning world cinema and uplifting films about life-changing illnesses.
Various venues, Thu to 26 Feb, keswickfilmclub.org/kff
Exposures: New Talent In Moving Image, Manchester
God knows it's not easy being a student these days, but at least you get your own film festivals. This is the UK's largest, and therefore...
- 2/18/2012
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
Outstanding in the Madonna-directed W.E., the Rada graduate may just be the best and brightest actor of her generation
Andrea Riseborough does not so much walk into a room as float through it; a fragrant, other-worldly presence who seems to appear out of nowhere like a shimmering will-o'-the-wisp. Her physical presence is slight – translucent skin and tiny, fine-boned fingers – and she gives the impression of operating on a different plane from the rest of us, as though earthly concerns are something of a mystery to her.
We are seated upstairs in the studio where the 30-year-old Riseborough has just finished the Observer photoshoot. On the table is a tray of baked apples. She peers at them detachedly, as though they are a strange piece of sculpture she cannot quite understand. Would she like one? "Oh no, I can't eat them," Riseborough says, smoothing down her floral tea dress. Why not?...
Andrea Riseborough does not so much walk into a room as float through it; a fragrant, other-worldly presence who seems to appear out of nowhere like a shimmering will-o'-the-wisp. Her physical presence is slight – translucent skin and tiny, fine-boned fingers – and she gives the impression of operating on a different plane from the rest of us, as though earthly concerns are something of a mystery to her.
We are seated upstairs in the studio where the 30-year-old Riseborough has just finished the Observer photoshoot. On the table is a tray of baked apples. She peers at them detachedly, as though they are a strange piece of sculpture she cannot quite understand. Would she like one? "Oh no, I can't eat them," Riseborough says, smoothing down her floral tea dress. Why not?...
- 1/8/2012
- by Elizabeth Day
- The Guardian - Film News
In 1964 Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo completed, after seven years work and on a budget of £7,000, one of the most extraordinary pictures ever made in this country. In It Happened Here, they imagined and created in considerable detail a Britain that had been occupied by the Nazis in 1940. Brownlow later wrote How It Happened Here, a riveting account of its production. Based on a novel by Owen Sheers, Resistance turns on the strategically and logistically improbable notion that D-Day failed in 1944, the Germans counter-attacked, and Britain became part of the Nazi empire. The setting is a remote Welsh valley taken over by a German company tasked with a curious secret mission, and a predictable, somewhat muffled story of exchanges with the natives, resistance and collaboration ensues. Not bad, but it falls far short of It Happened Here.
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- 11/27/2011
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
What would have happened had Nazi Germany succeeded in invading Britain in the Second World War? Debut feature-film writer-director Amit Gupta’s new anti-war drama, Resistance, starring Andrea Riseborough, Michael Sheen and German actor Tom Wlaschiha is about occupation and its effects.
We talk exclusively to Gupta (left, on the left of picture) about adapting the novel into a film, the back-story, casting and shooting experiences, and get an unique piece of advice on how to prepare to make a film, plus an insight into his new film, based on his acclaimed BBC Radio 4 play, Jadoo.
HeyUGuys: What was it about Owen Sheers’s novel that made you want to turn it into a film?
Amit Gupta: I think when I read it the first thing that really stayed with me was the atmosphere of it. I felt there was something about it that felt very filmic to me.
We talk exclusively to Gupta (left, on the left of picture) about adapting the novel into a film, the back-story, casting and shooting experiences, and get an unique piece of advice on how to prepare to make a film, plus an insight into his new film, based on his acclaimed BBC Radio 4 play, Jadoo.
HeyUGuys: What was it about Owen Sheers’s novel that made you want to turn it into a film?
Amit Gupta: I think when I read it the first thing that really stayed with me was the atmosphere of it. I felt there was something about it that felt very filmic to me.
- 11/25/2011
- by Lisa Giles-Keddie
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
D-Day has failed, Britain is under Nazi occupation!
The new UK alternate-reality WW2 drama Resistance stars Andrea Riseborough and Michael Sheen and it is the feature film directorial debut of Amit Gupta (see our interview with Amit here). The film is based on the critically acclaimed novel by Owen Sheers.
Sarah Lewis, a 26-year-old farmer’s wife, awakes one morning to find that her husband has disappeared along with all the men in the valley. Assuming they have joined the Resistance, the women of this tiny community pull together, taking on the running of the farms, and wait, desperate for news. A German patrol arrives in the valley, the purpose of its mission a mystery. When a severe winter forces the two groups into co-operation, Sarah begins an acquaintance with the patrol’s commanding officer, Albrecht. Cut off from the surrounding war, the lines between collaboration, duty, occupation and survival become blurred.
The new UK alternate-reality WW2 drama Resistance stars Andrea Riseborough and Michael Sheen and it is the feature film directorial debut of Amit Gupta (see our interview with Amit here). The film is based on the critically acclaimed novel by Owen Sheers.
Sarah Lewis, a 26-year-old farmer’s wife, awakes one morning to find that her husband has disappeared along with all the men in the valley. Assuming they have joined the Resistance, the women of this tiny community pull together, taking on the running of the farms, and wait, desperate for news. A German patrol arrives in the valley, the purpose of its mission a mystery. When a severe winter forces the two groups into co-operation, Sarah begins an acquaintance with the patrol’s commanding officer, Albrecht. Cut off from the surrounding war, the lines between collaboration, duty, occupation and survival become blurred.
- 11/24/2011
- by Competitons
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
"It's a bit of a perfect storm," says Owen Sheers, still a little out of breath from his bike ride across town. The writer, 37, has spent the week shuttling between red carpets in London and his hometown of Abergavenny in South Wales for the premieres of Resistance, a new film starring Andrea Riseborough and Michael Sheen based on his debut novel.
- 11/24/2011
- The Independent - Film
It's a bit of a perfect storm," says Owen Sheers, still a little out of breath from his bike ride across town. The writer, 37, has spent the week shuttling between red carpets in London and his hometown of Abergavenny in South Wales for the premieres of Resistance, a new film starring Andrea Riseborough and Michael Sheen based on his debut novel. In between, he's just started rehearsals on a new play, The Two Worlds of Charlie F, which will be performed by a company of 30 wounded and recovering soldiers as part of Trevor Nunn's next season at Theatre Royal Haymarket. Meanwhile, he's just spent a week in Wales, "back at the coalface of poetry", giving readings and workshops in his day job as one of Britain's brightest young poets..
- 11/24/2011
- The Independent - Film
As wartime dramas go, one begins to feel very much like another. But what debut feature-film writer-director Amit Gupta has created is an alternative 1940s ‘reality’, based on a fascinating novel by Owen Sheers, about what if the Nazis had succeeded with their invasion plans of Old Blighty. Resistance actually reignites our interest in the genre, as well as points to a fascinating real-life back-story.
It’s WWII and Britain is occupied. A group of women in a remote Welsh village wake up to discover all of their husbands have mysteriously vanished overnight, possibly to join the Resistance. Meanwhile, a German patrol led by commanding officer Albrecht (Tom Wlaschiha) arrives in the valley on a mysterious mission. The women are scared but defiant, and with the harsh winter closing in begin to form a dependency. One young wife, Sarah (Andrea Riseborough), catches Albrecht’s eye. Cut off from all other wartime events,...
It’s WWII and Britain is occupied. A group of women in a remote Welsh village wake up to discover all of their husbands have mysteriously vanished overnight, possibly to join the Resistance. Meanwhile, a German patrol led by commanding officer Albrecht (Tom Wlaschiha) arrives in the valley on a mysterious mission. The women are scared but defiant, and with the harsh winter closing in begin to form a dependency. One young wife, Sarah (Andrea Riseborough), catches Albrecht’s eye. Cut off from all other wartime events,...
- 11/22/2011
- by Lisa Giles-Keddie
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
From a young Margaret Thatcher to Wallis Simpson, Andrea Riseborough has managed to hide inside her roles. Is she ready for the fame Madonna will thrust upon her?
Andrea Riseborough in person is utterly unlike herself on screen. Even from film to film, Riseborough barely registers as the same person. In last year's remake of Brighton Rock she was timid and gawky, hidden behind National Health spectacles and long, mousy hair. In Made in Dagenham she was a mouthy, beehived cockney, while as the young Margaret Thatcher in TV drama The Long Walk to Finchley, she was faux-plummy and primly professional – and far sexier than most left-leaning viewers were comfortable with. Some actors have their own brand identity that is always flashing in the corner of the screen like a TV channel logo, whatever role they play; others can disappear to the extent we don't realise we've been watching them...
Andrea Riseborough in person is utterly unlike herself on screen. Even from film to film, Riseborough barely registers as the same person. In last year's remake of Brighton Rock she was timid and gawky, hidden behind National Health spectacles and long, mousy hair. In Made in Dagenham she was a mouthy, beehived cockney, while as the young Margaret Thatcher in TV drama The Long Walk to Finchley, she was faux-plummy and primly professional – and far sexier than most left-leaning viewers were comfortable with. Some actors have their own brand identity that is always flashing in the corner of the screen like a TV channel logo, whatever role they play; others can disappear to the extent we don't realise we've been watching them...
- 11/18/2011
- by Steve Rose
- The Guardian - Film News
The Prince Of Wales (pictured) is to attend the Welsh premiere of upcoming revisionist history drama Resistance, which is set in a Britain under Nazi occupation after the failure of D-Day.
The red-carpet event is from 7pm on Monday, November 21, at the Baker Street Cinema in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, in support of Abergavenny Museum and with funding from the Film Agency for Wales.
Resistance is the feature film directorial debut of Amit Gupta, and is based on the acclaimed novel by Owen Sheers.
Headlining the film are British rising star Andrea Riseborough (Brighton Rock, Made In Dagenham) and Tom Wlaschiha (Enemy At The Gates, Valkyrie, Brideshead Revisited), alongside co-star Michael Sheen (Frost/Nixon, The Queen, The Twilight Saga's New Moon and Breaking Dawn).
The synopsis, final trailer, a new clip for the film and several official stills are all included below.
Official synopsis:
D-Day has failed, Britain is under Nazi occupation.
The red-carpet event is from 7pm on Monday, November 21, at the Baker Street Cinema in Abergavenny, Monmouthshire, in support of Abergavenny Museum and with funding from the Film Agency for Wales.
Resistance is the feature film directorial debut of Amit Gupta, and is based on the acclaimed novel by Owen Sheers.
Headlining the film are British rising star Andrea Riseborough (Brighton Rock, Made In Dagenham) and Tom Wlaschiha (Enemy At The Gates, Valkyrie, Brideshead Revisited), alongside co-star Michael Sheen (Frost/Nixon, The Queen, The Twilight Saga's New Moon and Breaking Dawn).
The synopsis, final trailer, a new clip for the film and several official stills are all included below.
Official synopsis:
D-Day has failed, Britain is under Nazi occupation.
- 11/15/2011
- by David Bentley
- The Geek Files
In the sort of "what if" likely to give you the wiggins, new film Resistance imagines what Britain might have been like in 1944 if the Nazis had turned back the D-Day invasion of Normandy and invaded Blighty in return. And here, to give you some idea of what you're in for, is the UK quad for the film.The story focuses on women in an isolated Welsh village in occupied Gb who wake up one morning to find their husbands gone. Nefarious Nazi scheme? Or have the men all gone off to start fighting back? When a German patrol marches in to occupy the town and the whole lot get snowed in and have to work together to survive, the situation gets a bit more complicated.The film stars up-and-come Brit star Andrea Riseborough, Enemy At The Gates' Tom Wlaschia and Michael Sheen. It's based on the novel by...
- 10/21/2011
- EmpireOnline
Trailer for Resistance, starring Michael Sheen, Andrea Riseborough, Kimberley Nixon and Iwan Rheon The thriller / drama marks the feature directorial debut of Amit Gupta, helming and adapting the script alongside novel writer Owen Sheers. Set in 1944, the story tells of a group of women in an isolated Welsh village who wake up one day to discover all of the their husbands have mysteriously vanished. Opens in the U.K. on November 25th. We'll get you a U.S. release date when available.
- 10/5/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
Trailer for Resistance, starring Michael Sheen, Andrea Riseborough, Kimberley Nixon and Iwan Rheon The thriller / drama marks the feature directorial debut of Amit Gupta, helming and adapting the script alongside novel writer Owen Sheers. Set in 1944, the story tells of a group of women in an isolated Welsh village who wake up one day to discover all of the their husbands have mysteriously vanished. Opens in the U.K. on November 25th. We'll get you a U.S. release date when available.
- 10/5/2011
- Upcoming-Movies.com
The Guardian has our very first look at the world premiere trailer for Resistance, starring Michael Sheen. Enjoy the trailer below:
Michael Sheen and Andrea Riseborough star in Resistance, a drama set in an alternate Britain in which D-Day has failed and the country is under Nazi occupation.
Based on a novel by Welsh poet Owen Sheers, the story takes place in an alternate 1944, after the fall of Russia and the failed D-Day landings. The menfolk of the valley are disappearing one by one, their absences sudden and unexplained. As the all-female community huddles together, a group of German Wehrmacht soldiers invade the valley. A cruel winter season forces the two groups to put aside their differences and build a cautious entente cordiale, but as farmer’s wife Sarah Lewis grows closer to the patrol’s commanding officer, the spirit of the valley is threatened by the war raging beyond the mountain, and the unlikely community is faced with unimaginable devastation.
• Resistance is out in the UK on 25 November
I want to know when Resistance comes out in the Us! I want to see this movie so bad.
What did you think of the trailer for Resistance?...
Michael Sheen and Andrea Riseborough star in Resistance, a drama set in an alternate Britain in which D-Day has failed and the country is under Nazi occupation.
Based on a novel by Welsh poet Owen Sheers, the story takes place in an alternate 1944, after the fall of Russia and the failed D-Day landings. The menfolk of the valley are disappearing one by one, their absences sudden and unexplained. As the all-female community huddles together, a group of German Wehrmacht soldiers invade the valley. A cruel winter season forces the two groups to put aside their differences and build a cautious entente cordiale, but as farmer’s wife Sarah Lewis grows closer to the patrol’s commanding officer, the spirit of the valley is threatened by the war raging beyond the mountain, and the unlikely community is faced with unimaginable devastation.
• Resistance is out in the UK on 25 November
I want to know when Resistance comes out in the Us! I want to see this movie so bad.
What did you think of the trailer for Resistance?...
- 9/30/2011
- by Evie
- twilightersanonymous.com
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