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“Tamara Drewe” to open 2010 Bahamas International Film Festival
By Dennis Dembia
Dec 1, 2010 - 9:19:57 AM
Nassau,
Bahamas – October 26, 2010
– The Bahamas
International Film Festival (BIFF), announced today that Sony Pictures
Classics’ acclaimed comedy “Tamara Drewe” will be the opening
film at this year’s festival, which takes place December 1-5 in Nassau.
The special event screening will take place on Thursday, December 2nd at
the Atlantis Theatre on Paradise Island. The announcement was made by BIFF
Founder and Executive Director Leslie Vanderpool.
Directed by two time Academy Award®
nominee Stephen Frears (“High Fidelity,” “The Queen,”
“Dangerous Liasons”), the film stars Gemma Arterton (“Prince
of Persia,” “Clash of the Titans,” “Quantum of
Solace”) in the title role, along with Roger Allam (“V for
Vendetta,” “The Queen”), Bill Camp (“Public
Enemies,” “Deception”), Dominic Cooper (“Mama
Mia!” “An Education”), Luke Evens (“Robin Hood,”
“Clash of the Titans”) and Tamisn Greig (“Shaun of the
Dead,” “Falling Apart”). The screenplay was written by Moira Buffini.
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Based on Posy
Simmonds’ beloved graphic novel of the same name (which was itself
inspired by Thomas Hardy’s classic
Far From the Madding Crowd)
this wittily modern take on the romantic English pastoral is a far cry from
Hardy’s Wessex.
Tamara Drewe’s present-day English
countryside—stocked with pompous writers, rich weekenders, bourgeois
bohemians, a horny rock star, and a great many Buff Orpington chickens and
Belted Galloway cows—is a much funnier place. When Tamara Drewe sashays
back to the bucolic village of her youth, life for the locals is thrown upside
down. Tamara—once an ugly duckling—has been transformed into a
devastating beauty (with help from plastic surgery). As infatuations,
jealousies, love affairs and career ambitions collide among the inhabitants of
the neighboring farmsteads, Tamara sets a contemporary comedy of manners into
play using the oldest magic in the book—sex appeal.
The film was an Official Selection of the
2010 Cannes Film Festival, 2010 Telluride Film Festival and 2010 Toronto
International Film Festival. “Tamara Drewe” is produced by Alison
Owen, Paul Trijbits and Tracey Seaward. Executive Producers are Christine
Langan, Sharon Harel and Maya Amsellem.
BIFF 2010 begins Wednesday, December 1st
and runs through Sunday, December 5th.
GET YOUR TICKETS
For ticket information please visit www.bintlfilmfest.com.
About the Bahamas
International Film Festival
The Bahamas International Film
Festival (BIFF) is a nonprofit organization committed to providing the local
community and international festival-goers with a diverse presentation of films
from the Bahamas and around the world. In addition to showcasing films that might
not otherwise be released theatrically, BIFF provides unique cultural
experiences, educational programs, and forums for exploring the past, present
and future of cinema. BIFF aims to raise the level of filmmaking, participation
and education throughout the Bahamas and the world.
Key Sponsors of the 2010 BIFF
are; Ministry of Tourism, Atlantis, Old Fort Bay Club, The Nature Conservancy,
Galleria Cinema, Starbucks, Ministry of Culture, Nine to Five Import Export,
Custom Computers, College of The Bahamas, Bahamas Local and many more
.
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