Project Detail

Adrift in Soho

Synopsis

Based on Colin Wilson's novel ‘Adrift in Soho’, published in 1961, following the book’s critique of society through the bohemian Soho of the 1950s with its trappings between the daytime poverty and the libertarian nightlife, and portraying a group of young people who meet in Soho.
Starting as a fictional drama about a documentary, the film ends up as a documentary of a fictional drama through the lens of a group of young filmmakers. It can be seen as an homage to the Free Cinema filmmakers of the 1950s, a movement that Colin Wilson lived through and very much identified with.

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Details

Year: 2018
Type of project: Features
Running time: 110 mins
Format: 35mm
Director: Pablo Behrens 1st Feature
Producer: Owen Drake
Co-Producer: Pablo Behrens
Executive Producer: Christopher Gray
Editor: Simon Wilcox and Charlie Hawksworth
Screenwriter: Pablo Behrens (script), Colin Wilson (novel)
Director of Photography: Martin Kobylarz
Production Designer: Steven Blundell
Sound: Wave Sound
Composer: Anthony Reynolds
Principal cast: Chris Wellington, Owen Drake, Caitlin Harris, Lauren Harris, Emily Seale-Jones

Genre

Experimental Literary Adaption Drama

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Burning Films

9 Upstall Street
London
SE5 9JE

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Sales Company

Anicee Gohar

City of Westminster Dwellings
20 Marshall Street
London
W1F 7ER

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Kevin and Cassandra are a married couple who have lost their only daughter Hannah in a freak car accident. They both raised her differently. Kevin had been a traditional parent, Cassandra a permissive one. While Hannah had decided to exhibit her body and mind online, she cut adrift from her father and gravitates towards her mother. Her death drove a wedge between them. Their lounge becomes a battlefield where incendiary words and spiteful things are said. Their marriage is one where opposites no longer attract. Kevin is filled with loathing for his in-laws, his daughter’s boyfriend, himself. Cassandra wears her daughter’s favorite colours with pride and exhibits her painting on the walls. Kevin finds he is powerless in his home and Cassandra mocks the fact that it was her father who bought it. And when he finally leaves it, he leaves Cassandra forever.

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