Creditors
Synopsis
Grant Pierce (Christian McKay) arrives from London into Madrid, Spain, hoping to be given the chance to meet his favourite painter, American Freddie Lynch (Ben Cura), who is currently staying at a private hotel in an unassuming location outside the city. As Grant steps into the main building of "El Madroño", he troublingly finds Lynch a crippled man whom, he soon reveals, has been unable to actually paint for the better part of a year.
As the two men get to know each other under the watchful eye of one of the owners of the hotel, Michael Redmane (Tom Bateman), they start to piece together the disturbing picture of Freddie's marriage to beautiful writer Chloe Fleury (Andrea Deck) which harbours secrets that will reveal much more than Freddie's recent creative emaciation and clearly defined obsession with her ex-husband.
At times disturbingly funny and cruelly bleak, "Creditors" deals with the most private aspects of human relationships.
Details
- Year
- 2016
- Type of project
- Features
- Running time
- 81 mins
- Format
- Digital
- Director
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Ben Cura 1st Feature
- Producer
- Ben Cura, Andrea Deck
- Executive Producer
- R. Long, C. Long, José Cura, Silvia Ibarra, Larry J. Deck, Pat Deck
- Editor
- Teresa Font
- Screenwriter
- Ben Cura (Screenplay), August Strindberg (Play)
- Director of Photography
- Ben Hecking
- Sound
- Francis Cullen, Alvaro López-Arregui, Nicolas de Poulpiquet, José Vinader
- Composer
- Nina Aranda, Kyle James Hauser
- Principal cast
- Christian McKay, Andrea Deck, Ben Cura, Tom Bateman, Simon Callow
Categories
Production Status
Production Company
Sales Company
New Morning Films
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