Project Detail

The Book of Eve

Synopsis

When most people retire, they retreat to that idyllic cottage in the country and life starts to take a slower pace - but not for Eva.

Her 65th birthday arrives along with her first pension cheque, which proves to be a major wake up call.

Dumping Burt her grumpy and ungrateful husband of forty years, she flees the safe cocoon and wealth of suburbia and heads for the uncertainty of the big city, figuring the only things in life you regret are the things you don't do.

Life's not easy at first for Eva, but it's a damn sight more exciting when Johnny a passionate Romanian immigrant 20 years her junior re-lights her fire with good cooking, stimulating conversations, and lots of laughs. Her walls crumble, and her senses begin to awaken.

A heart-warming voyage of discovery, The Book of Eve explores how modern women at 65 can be sensual, attractive, funny and intelligent and that coming of age isn't restricted to teenagers!

Details

Year: 2003
Type of film: Features
Running time: 99 mins 54 secs
Format: 35mm Kodak
Director: Claude Fournier
Producer: Andre Link, David Pupkewitz
Editor: Jean-Pierre Cereghetti
Screenwriter: Terri Hawkes, Claude Fournier
Director of Photography: Ivan Strasburg
Sound: Mike Prestwood-Smith
Music: Carl David
Principal cast: Claire Bloom, Daniel Lavoie, Susannah York, Julian Glover

Genre

Drama

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

The Rotunda Studios

c/o 116-118 Finchley Road,
London NW3 5HT
UK

T+44 (0)20 7435 9004

focus@pupix.demon.co.uk

Sales Company

Lions Gate Films International 4553 Glencoe Avenue

Suite 200
Marina del Rey
CA90292 USA

T +1 310 314 2000

www.lionsgatefilms.com

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