Sneak Preview: TYRANNOSAUR (Paddy Considine, 2011)
Event Date: November 10, 2011 - 7:30pm
Location: The James Bridges Theater, Melnitz Hall 1409, UCLA
From the Melnitz Movies Director, Samuel B. Prime:
In the first ten minutes of TYRANNOSAUR, I was in tears. For a debut feature, Paddy Considine's film is easily one of the most powerfully affecting narratives produced in recent history. Its performance at the Sundance Film Festival echoes this sentiment and confirms that Considine is not simply one of the UK's most respected actors, but a formidable directorial force, one to watch. TYRANNOSAUR is just the beginning of what is sure to be a storied career as a director. Don't miss this one! You will regret it!
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Joseph (Peter Mullan) is an unemployed widower with a drinking problem, a man crippled by his own volatile temperament and furious anger. Hannah (Olivia Colman) is a Christian worker at a charity shop, a respectable woman who seems wholesome and happy. When circumstance brings the pair together, Hannah appears as Joseph’s guardian angel, tempering his fury and offering him warmth, kindness and acceptance. As their relationship develops, Hannah’s own secrets are revealed — her husband (Eddie Marsan) is violent and abusive — and Joseph emerges as her unlikely savior. With striking performances and a deeply felt story, actor-turned-writer/director Paddy Considine's film is a stunning debut about the emergence of grace and redemption from the least likely of places.
The World Cinema Award for Directing, Dramatic, Sundance
World Cinema Special Jury Prize for Breakout Performance: Peter Mullan, Sundance
World Cinema Special Jury Prize for Breakout Performance: Olivia Colman, Sundance
Best Writer/Director, Nantucket Film Festival
Outstanding Debut Feature, Munich Film Festival
"It's a brave, tough, truly compassionate film that threatens to bite any hand of comfort held out to it prematurely. Olivia Colman and Peter Mullan are excellent as the orphans of this terrifying storm, and Eddie Marsan is frighteningly beyond the pale as the husband from, and on his way to, hell." -Philip French, The Observor
"Tyrannosaur is a fearsome debut but it’s subtler than the title suggests — and the film’s uplifting moments make it easier to recommend than the average British misery flick. It also marks Paddy Considine as a director worth keeping an eye on. Never mind if that flies in the face of the third rule of filmmaking, 'Actors can’t direct for toffee’. He’s one of the exceptions that proves it." -Robin Collins, The Telegraph
"Approach Considine’s brilliant directorial debut with caution. It’s a pitiless, fearsome beast that will hammer you in the gut, hard. And Olivia Colman will blow you away." -Matt Mueller, Total Film
WRITER/DIRECTOR: Paddy Considine
STARRING: Peter Mullan, Olivia Colman, Eddie Marsan, and Paul Popplewell.
Strand Releasing
Blu-Ray, 91 min.
