Project Detail

Shadows in the Sun

Synopsis

Hannah lives alone in a large, remote house on England’s north Norfolk coast, where little has changed in fifty years - the marshes, the sand dunes, the pine forests, the long empty beaches and solitary houses under wide, open skies. She and her late husband bought the house after a life filled with theatre, books and travel. She seems perfectly happy with her poetry, her garden and her much younger friend, Joe, a handsome, mysterious young loner who brings her cannabis to ease the pain of a long illness.

When Hannah’s son, Robert arrives with Kate and Sam, his teenage daughter and ten-year-old son, tensions quickly surface. Robert is troubled by Hannah’s intimacy with Joe and is deeply suspicious of his motives, while Kate finds him extremely attractive. Sam, in between, excitedly exploring the nearby ship wreck and roaming the countryside, learns about jealousy and loss.

Robert endeavors to assert his place over Joe and take control of his mother’s life. But ultimately it is through Joe that he comes to understand the people and things in his life that really matter.

Details

Year: 2009
Type of project: Features
Running time: 85 mins
Format: 35mm
Director: David Rocksavage
Producer: Ivan MacTaggart, David Rocksavage
Co-Producer: Ivan MacTaggart, David Rocksavage
Editor: Eduardo Perez Vidal
Screenwriter: Margaret Glover, David Rocksavage
Director of Photography: Milton Kam
Production Designer: Will Field
Sound: Keith Tunney
Composer: Richard Chester
Principal cast: Jean Simmons, James Wilby, Jamie Dornan, Ophelia Lovibond, Toby Marlow

Genre

Drama

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

Wreck Productions

24 Hanway Street
London W1T 1UH
UK

Sales Company

High Point Media Group

Suite 16 Deane House Studios
Greenwood Place
London NW5 1LB
UK

T +44 (0)20 7424 6870

sales@highpointfilms.co.uk

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