The Guitar
The Guitar
- Colour, 35 mm
- USA, 2007, 92 min
- IP – International premiere
- Section: Official Selection - Competition
- http://www.theguitarthemovie.com
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- Director: Amy Redford
- Screenplay: Amos Poe
- Dir. of Photography: Bobby Bukowski
- Music: David Mansfield
- Designer: Marla Weinhoff
- Editor: David Leonard
- Producer: Michael Roban, Amy Redford, Bob Jason, Heyward Collins, Brad Zions
- Production: Cold Fusion Media Group, LLC
- Sales: Maximum Films International
- Distributor: Vapet Production spol. s.r.o.
816 - 11.7., 20:00, Grand Hall
9E1 - 12.7., 10:00, Espace Dorleans Cinema
Cast
Saffron Burrows, Isaach de Bankole, Paz de la Huerta
Synopsis
One morning Melody, a woman in her thirties, discovers that she is suffering from an incurable form of cancer. She immediately loses her job, and her boyfriend delivers the fatal blow to their fading relationship. In the knowledge that she has less than two months to live and nothing to lose, Melody decides to fulfil all her wildest dreams. She rents a palatial loft, goes on a spending spree and, in moments of intimate seclusion, teaches herself to play the electric guitar, something she has craved since her childhood days. The screenplay for this compelling drama which actress and debuting director Amy Redford based on a real story, was written by underground filmmaker Amos Poe, the creator of the celebrated documentary The Blank Generation. With disarming sensitivity, the talented Redford succeeded in capturing the mental state of a young woman confronted with her own mortality and her gradual discovery of an inner strength she never knew she had. One of the hits at this year’s Sundance festival, the film offers an excellent performance by Saffron Burrows, familiar from the films Miss Julie or The Loss of Sexual Innocence.
About the director
Amy Redford (b. 1970, USA), the daughter of actor and director Robert Redford, is chiefly known as a stage, film and television actress. She was hailed by the critics for her performance in Daisy Foote’s play Bhutan, produced in New York’s Cherry Lane theatre. Her filmography includes works such as The Understudy, Maid In Manhattan, When I Find the Ocean, This Revolution and Sunshine Cleaning, where she appeared alongside Amy Adams and Emily Blunt. Fans of TV series will recognise her from The Sopranos, Sex and the City or Law and Order. Amy Redford studied acting at university in San Francisco and at the Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) in London. Her directorial debut The Guitar was successfully screened in the Premieres section at this year’s Sundance festival.
Film Guests
Saffron Burrows, Michael RobanContacts
Cold Fusion Media Group, LLC6121 Sunset Boulevard 3rd Floor, CA 90028 Los Angeles
USA
Tel: +1 323 469 4444
Fax: +1 323 463 3007
E-mail: michael@coldfusionmedia.net
www: www.coldfusionmedia.net
Maximum Films International
9 Price Street, M4W 1Z1 Toronto
Canada
Tel: +1 416 960 0300
Fax: +1 416 960 8656
E-mail: natalie@maximumfilms.ca
www: www.maximumfilms.ca
Vapet Production spol. s.r.o.
U družstva Repo 1061/7 , 140 00 Praha 4
Česká republika
Tel: +420 261 213 225
Fax: +420 261 221 975
E-mail: info@vapet.cz
www: www.vapet.cz
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