Shell (2012)
Country: GB
Technical: col 91m
Director: Scott Graham
Cast: Chloe Pirrie, Joseph Mawle, Kate Dickie, Michael Smiley
Synopsis:
At a remote petrol station in the Highlands, an epileptic father and his teenage daughter eke out a living from recovered vehicles and the occasional passing truck, while here and there tentative gestures towards intimacy mark out their lives.
Review:
Extended from a short film made a few years earlier, Graham specially constructed location captures brilliantly the flavour of existence in such an isolated spot, the long still silences punctuated by rattles and gusts. A deer and guttering gas pilot light provide obligatory symbolism, the camera follows the young lead around implacably in tight shot, pausing only to take in the various men who contemplate her, and the director and his DP map the shifting light patterns as winter closes in on the characters.
Country: GB
Technical: col 91m
Director: Scott Graham
Cast: Chloe Pirrie, Joseph Mawle, Kate Dickie, Michael Smiley
Synopsis:
At a remote petrol station in the Highlands, an epileptic father and his teenage daughter eke out a living from recovered vehicles and the occasional passing truck, while here and there tentative gestures towards intimacy mark out their lives.
Review:
Extended from a short film made a few years earlier, Graham specially constructed location captures brilliantly the flavour of existence in such an isolated spot, the long still silences punctuated by rattles and gusts. A deer and guttering gas pilot light provide obligatory symbolism, the camera follows the young lead around implacably in tight shot, pausing only to take in the various men who contemplate her, and the director and his DP map the shifting light patterns as winter closes in on the characters.
Country: GB
Technical: col 91m
Director: Scott Graham
Cast: Chloe Pirrie, Joseph Mawle, Kate Dickie, Michael Smiley
Synopsis:
At a remote petrol station in the Highlands, an epileptic father and his teenage daughter eke out a living from recovered vehicles and the occasional passing truck, while here and there tentative gestures towards intimacy mark out their lives.
Review:
Extended from a short film made a few years earlier, Graham specially constructed location captures brilliantly the flavour of existence in such an isolated spot, the long still silences punctuated by rattles and gusts. A deer and guttering gas pilot light provide obligatory symbolism, the camera follows the young lead around implacably in tight shot, pausing only to take in the various men who contemplate her, and the director and his DP map the shifting light patterns as winter closes in on the characters.