The British actress Gemma Arterton carries out this delicious comedy with certain points of black humor that she directs Stephen Frears and whose opening is predicted in our country the 12 of November.
Cradle in the popular graphical novel of Posy Simmond, that was as well inspired by Officers' Club of Revolutionary Armed Forces From the Madding Crowd [Far from the worldly noise], of Thomas Hardy, this one is funny but sometimes also a black comedy about a young journalist divided between two lovers. Tamara Drewe interpreted by Gemma Arterton, after many years, returns to its rural town of Dorset to sell its native house, and its return brings about a species of commotion. When one went of the town, Tamara was an attractive adolescent little but she returns turned into a stunning woman who unties a storm of envy, desire and cotilleo wherever she goes. Tamara is a modern girl, but its history of love and confusion is eternal.
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“With Tamara Drewe I saw the opportunity make a film independent that had good personages, drama, comedy - but intelligent comedy and certain social observations, that outside interesting and that it attracted people”, the producer Alison Owen says. Director Stephen Frears also fell in love immediately with the special enchantment and the challenges that the graphical novel of Posy Simmonds raised: “Its originality enchanted to Me. Christine Langan [creative director of BBC Films] sent it to me. I was flying towards New York and abrí the envelope in the airplane. He could not think what he was seeing. He happened to me just like with Irish coffee. It is an incredible and very pleasant sensation”.
Then, Alison Owen and Christine Lagan proposed to him to Moira Buffini that wrote the script. His first version was already so satisfactory that Stephen Frears accepted immediately to make the film.
The graphical novel is a species of story-board, which, evidently, helped Moira Buffini much: “She is very complete visually and it is almost a film. In its drawings, Posy offers many indications about the personages. The graphical novel is literally story-board”.
For Alan Macdonald, the artistic director, “is very rare to tell on story-board that he is already done previously. It is an advantage, but also he can be a disadvantage, when we obsessed ourselves with obtaining a faithful similarity”.
Also for the actors the existence of a graphical novel presented/displayed simultaneously a challenge and a support. Luke Evans and Tamsin Greig emphasizes: “Perhaps it is the first time that the actors look themselves as much like their personages, even physically… Soon it was necessary to be to the height”.
Alison Owen wished that the film was so fluid and pleasant as the book: “We wanted to catch part of that spirit because the text is translated to a pictorial form with a rate that Stephen has known to catch. Note that the film is an adaptation of a graphical novel, but Stephen has caught well its spirit, as well as the form and the sort but giving a cinematographic treatment him”.
