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Scarborough
Logline: A tale of forbidden love based on the acclaimed play from Royal Court Theatre in London.
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Set over three days in the British seaside town of Scarborough, two couples seek an escape from the constraints of real life. In a faded hotel, amongst the peeling wallpaper, they laugh, quarrel, make love and enjoy their anonymity.
The hotel rooms are their safe haven but also their self-imposed prison as they don’t dare go out. After all, at barely 16 years old, two of them are still at school… and the other two,...
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Scarborough
Logline: A tale of forbidden love based on the acclaimed play from Royal Court Theatre in London.
Elevator Pitch:
Set over three days in the British seaside town of Scarborough, two couples seek an escape from the constraints of real life. In a faded hotel, amongst the peeling wallpaper, they laugh, quarrel, make love and enjoy their anonymity.
The hotel rooms are their safe haven but also their self-imposed prison as they don’t dare go out. After all, at barely 16 years old, two of them are still at school… and the other two,...
- 11/28/2016
- by Steve Greene
- Indiewire
While it might sound metaphorical, the title of this documentary is actually strictly accurate. "The Man Who Bought Mustique" tells the story of Lord Glenconner, real name Colin Tennant, a Scottish nobleman who purchased the tiny Caribbean island in 1956 and helped develop it into the high-class resort it has now become before losing financial control and being unceremoniously booted off the island a couple of decades later. The film is, however, less interested in recounting the details of this initially savvy real estate investment than it is in displaying its subject's prickly personality in full bloom. Imagine your most crotchety uncle on his worst day and magnify that tenfold, and you get some idea of what Tennant is like in full tantrum mode.
Thus, we are treated to an endless series of hissy fits as Tennant, who now lives in St. Lucia, returns to Mustique for the first time in 10 years, pitches a giant tent (no one on the island wants to put him up) and prepares to host a lavish dinner for his old friend Princess Margaret. As the filmmakers doggedly follow him throughout his extensive preparations, which sometimes border on the bizarre (the tent flaps, for instance, are decorated with giant and explicit reproductions from the Kama Sutra), they -- and just about everyone else with whom Tennant comes into contact -- continually receive the full brunt of his bad temper. But, as one of the native workers helpfully points out, he is democratic in his fury: Rich island transplants and poor natives alike are subject to his profane dressings-down. Only royalty, in the form of the rather dazed-looking Margaret, escapes his wrath.
While these tirades are sometimes highly amusing and even witty, not to mention serving to illustrate the less attractive personality traits of the aristocracy, the filmmakers might have misjudged their entertainment value. It isn't long before repetition has set in, with the film seeming far too long even at a relatively brief 78 minutes. The details of Tennant's life, which includes much tragedy -- he lost two sons to illness, and a third suffered Brain Damage in an auto accident -- and which might provide some context for his current emotional state, are too quickly glossed over. Also, far too little information is imparted about his actual purchase of the island, which quickly became a hot spot for jet-set celebrities. It's easy to see why the director kept the camera rolling on his subject as long as he did, however; when he gets rolling, Tennant's as compulsively and hissably watchable as Joan Rivers at the Oscars.
THE MAN WHO BOUGHT MUSTIQUE
First Run Features
Credits:
Director: Joseph Bullman
Producer: Vikram Jayanti
Executive producer: Andre Singer
Editor: Sally Hilton
Camera: Ian Liggett, Peter Cannon, David Smith
Sound: David Runciman, Guy Satchwell
Music: Dario Marianelli
No MPAA rating
Color
Running time -- 78 minutes...
Thus, we are treated to an endless series of hissy fits as Tennant, who now lives in St. Lucia, returns to Mustique for the first time in 10 years, pitches a giant tent (no one on the island wants to put him up) and prepares to host a lavish dinner for his old friend Princess Margaret. As the filmmakers doggedly follow him throughout his extensive preparations, which sometimes border on the bizarre (the tent flaps, for instance, are decorated with giant and explicit reproductions from the Kama Sutra), they -- and just about everyone else with whom Tennant comes into contact -- continually receive the full brunt of his bad temper. But, as one of the native workers helpfully points out, he is democratic in his fury: Rich island transplants and poor natives alike are subject to his profane dressings-down. Only royalty, in the form of the rather dazed-looking Margaret, escapes his wrath.
While these tirades are sometimes highly amusing and even witty, not to mention serving to illustrate the less attractive personality traits of the aristocracy, the filmmakers might have misjudged their entertainment value. It isn't long before repetition has set in, with the film seeming far too long even at a relatively brief 78 minutes. The details of Tennant's life, which includes much tragedy -- he lost two sons to illness, and a third suffered Brain Damage in an auto accident -- and which might provide some context for his current emotional state, are too quickly glossed over. Also, far too little information is imparted about his actual purchase of the island, which quickly became a hot spot for jet-set celebrities. It's easy to see why the director kept the camera rolling on his subject as long as he did, however; when he gets rolling, Tennant's as compulsively and hissably watchable as Joan Rivers at the Oscars.
THE MAN WHO BOUGHT MUSTIQUE
First Run Features
Credits:
Director: Joseph Bullman
Producer: Vikram Jayanti
Executive producer: Andre Singer
Editor: Sally Hilton
Camera: Ian Liggett, Peter Cannon, David Smith
Sound: David Runciman, Guy Satchwell
Music: Dario Marianelli
No MPAA rating
Color
Running time -- 78 minutes...
- 5/15/2001
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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