Directed by:
Peter Mackie BurnsScreenplay:
Nico MensingaCinematography:
Adam ScarthCast:
Emily Beecham, Geraldine James, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Osy Ikhile, Sinead Matthews, Ritu Arya, Karina Fernandez, Stuart McQuarrie, Matthew Pidgeon (more)VOD (1)
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Daphne (31) is a real cynic when it comes to love, imprisoned in an existential vacuum. Armed with statements by philosopher Slavoj Žižek, she sharply and successfully fends off any form of emotional approach. Apparently aimlessly, she roams around her far-from-exciting life: working in a hip restaurant, grumbling at her sick mother, casual sex and lots of drink, which she uses to keep the increasingly urgent questions of life and emotion that plague her at bay. Then a dramatic event suddenly changes her from a spectator into a participant, and her remorseless armour bursts open. (International Film Festival Rotterdam)
(more)Cast
Emily Beecham
UK
Best movies:
Guy Ritchie's The Covenant (2023)
Rise of the Footsoldier (2007)
Cruella (2021)
Geraldine James
UK
Best movies:
Gandhi (1982)
Sherlock Holmes (2009)
Agatha Christie: Poirot (1989) (series)
Tom Vaughan-Lawlor
Ireland
Best movies:
Avengers: Infinity War (2018)
Avengers: Endgame (2019)
L'Infiltré (2016)
Osy Ikhile
Best movies:
Mission: Impossible - Rogue Nation (2015)
Childhood's End (2015) (series)
In the Heart of the Sea (2015)
Sinead Matthews
UK
Best movies:
Pride & Prejudice (2005)
The Boat That Rocked (2009)
Jellyfish (2018)
Ritu Arya
UK
Best movies:
Sherlock (2010) (series)
Last Christmas (2019)
Red Notice (2021)
Karina Fernandez
Best movies:
Pride (2014)
Another Year (2010)
Mr. Turner (2014)
Stuart McQuarrie
Best movies:
Trainspotting (1996)
The Hollow Crown (2012) (series)
The Way We Live Now (2001) (series)
Matthew Pidgeon
USA
Best movies:
Taggart (1983) (series)
Much Ado About Nothing (2012)
The Winslow Boy (1999)
Nathaniel Martello-White
Best movies:
Small Axe (2020) (series)
Moonwalkers (2015)
Red Tails (2012)
Victoria Willing
Best movies:
The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)
Wire in the Blood (2002) (series)
This Year's Love (1999)
Ragevan Vasan
Best movies:
Dumbo (2019)
Daphne (2017)
The Last Witness (2018)
Timothy Innes
UK
Best movies:
The Favourite (2018)
Ashes in the Snow (2018)
The Sense of an Ending (2017)
Ruth Bradley
Ireland
Charlene Durrant
Best movies:
Breathe (2017)
The Legend of Tarzan (2016)
Daphne (2017)
Ryan McParland
Best movies:
Good Vibrations (2012)
Calm with Horses (2019)
Tale of Tales (2015)
Rania Kurdi
Best movies:
Daphne (2017)
Corinna Brown
Best movies:
Daphne (2017)