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Us Among The Stones

Synopsis

The Withnail generation had children... and Owen is one of them. His memories of his wild childhood weave a spell on him – or was it the acid he accidentally took as a child? Weaving her spell too is his mother, the free-spirited Marianne. She is supposed to be on her deathbed – but she's not going quietly. The family gather at their crumbling farmhouse for her last birthday. Among the stones and the animals, they prepare for battle. Owen struggles to free himself from Marianne's web and win back his ex-partner Caroline. Along the way he must reckon with uncles, babies, brothers, sisters, children and dads. Love, pain, laughter, wine – and mushrooms. Everyone in this family longs to be free. Their quests play out like a game of hide and seek in the old house – a curiously timeless space full of secrets rich and strange.
Official Selection BFI London Film Festival 2019 - Journey Strand - World premiere

Details

Year
2019
Type of film
Features
Running time
94 mins
Director
Dictynna Hood
Producer
Thembisa Cochrane, Georgie Paget
Executive Producer
James Appleton
Editor
Claire Pringle
Screenwriter
Dictynna Hood
Director of Photography
Annemarie Lean-Vercoe
Production Designer
C.H Chapmankan
Sound
Faadi Shehadeh
Principal cast
Laurence Fox, Anna Calder-Marshall, Sinead Matthews, Raia Haidar, Greg Hicks, Oliver Cotton

Genre

Woman Director Drama

Categories

Fiction

Production Status

Complete

Production Company

UK, Belgium co-production

A Likely Story production in association with Caspian Films

Likely Story

Georgina Paget
26D Mount View Road
London
N4 4HX

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