Conquest
Synopsis
Conquest has seen better days. Most people have moved away and those who have stayed are getting on a bit. Except Pincer Bedier. At 32, he has returned to run the small bank and he is not afraid of spending his bank's money to keep the town alive! The most cynical is Grace Gallagher, a woman in her 70's who has never given up on her dream to live in a real place like Rome.
Beautiful and mysterious Daisy MacDonald lands in town when her sports car breaks down. To Daisy, Pincer's town is the end of the earth, the last place she can see herself staying. Her presence begins to perk up the town. Daisy however has found herself with a problem. She's fallen in love with the banker.
In this off-beat romantic comedy, almost everyone gets what they want. Grace finds a way to escape. Pincer finds a way for his dreams to live on and Daisy finds the nerve to get off the road.
Details
- Year
- 1999
- Type of project
- Features
- Running time
- 95 mins
- Format
- 35mm
- Director
-
Piers Haggard
- Producer
- Christina Jennings, Stephen Onda
- Director of Photography
- Gerald Packer
- Principal cast
- Lothaire Bluteau, Tara Fitzgerald
- Screen Writer
- Rob Forsyth
Categories
Production Status
Production Company
Shaftesbury Films Inc. 264B Adelaide Street East Toronto Ontario Canada M5A INI Tel: 001 416 363 1411 Fax: 001 416 363 1428 Email: shaftesburyfilms@compuserve.com
Sales Company
North & South Film Ltd The Floris Building 39-43 Brewer Street London W1R 3FD Tel: 020 7494 1122 Fax: 020 7494 1144 Email: info@northsouthfilm.demon.co.uk
Page updates
This page was last updated on 12th May 2025. Please let us know if we need to make any amendments or request edit access by clicking below.
See also
You may also be interested in other relevant projects in the database.
High End
Director: Antonia Campbell-Hughes
Year: 2026
In Geneva's wealthy international circles, privileged expatriates navigate their luxurious lives while dealing with personal dramas and hidden secrets.
The Game
Director: Blaize Mott
Year: 2026
Donald, a lonely young man desperate to improve his dating life, hires a manipulative pick-up artist, Charles, to teach him how to meet and attract women. Over the course of one night in London, Donald is pulled into a world of performance, pressure and control, where confidence becomes coercion and desire begins to blur with power. What began as a harmless lesson on love transforms into a night where the methods he is instructed to use to achieve his goal are far darker than he could have ever imagined.
Ken Russell's The Devils
Director: Ken Russell
Year: 1971
A dramatized historical account of the rise and fall of Urbain Grandier, a 17th-century Roman Catholic priest accused of witchcraft following the supposed possessions in Loudun, France; it also focuses on Sister Jeanne des Anges, a sexually repressed nun who inadvertently incites the accusations. An enduring masterpiece of cinema, KEN RUSSELL’S THE DEVILS is a prescient epic of obsession and corruption – and a defining work of art from seminal filmmaker Ken Russell. Assembled from the original camera negative, this new 4K restoration presents Ken Russell’s definitive vision of THE DEVILS by referencing the edit he privately constructed in 2004. KEN RUSSELL’S THE DEVILS is the uncut and unfiltered theatrical experience that Russell always envisioned. Official Selection Cannes Film Festival 2026 - Cannes Classics - 4K Restoration - World premiere