Project Detail

Lotus Eaters

Synopsis

In Lotus Eaters we follow the story of two young people. Alice, a former model and struggling actress, finds herself unable to keep up with the extravagant living that her so-called friends furiously pursue. She spends her time dodging bailiffs and sliding from one bed to the next. Struggling to make sense of a life that she has become indifferent to she begins to feel that Felix, an old friend, is her chance at redemption and finding something real. Drifting through this alluring and hedonistic scene, consumed by a manic, clingy girlfriend and an abundance of fairweather friends, Felix also searches for something more.

Details

Year: 2011
Type of project: Features
Running time: 78 mins
Director: Alexandra McGuinness
Producer: Mark Lee
Co-Producer: Kyle Blanshard, Morgan Bushe, Macdara Kelleher
Editor: Herbert Hunger, Emer Reynolds
Screenwriter: Alexandra McGuinness, Brendan Grant
Director of Photography: Gareth Munden
Production Designer: Richard Hudson
Composer: Birger Clausen
Principal cast: Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Johnny Flynn, Benn Northover, Alex Wyndham

Genre

Woman Director Drama

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

McGuinnessLee Ltd.

29 Hormead Road
London
W9 3NQ
UK
Tel: +44 (0)20 8969 4607

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Fastnet Films

1st Fl, 75-76 Camden St Lower
Dublin 2
Ireland
Tel: +353 1 478 9566
Fax: +353 1 478 9567

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www.fastnetfilms.com

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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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