Mm? What's that you say? Winslet is the director?
Yes. She was filming The Social Network and a scene had to be reset and she knew where to come in and cut around the scene and she told that to Danny Boyle and he said 'Actors don't do that'. And she thought, 'Well I'm sorry but I can do that'. And thus when her son Joe Anders wrote a screenplay about the death of his grandmother, she directed it herself.
And assembled a fine cast of Helen Mirren (who contradicted her own rule of never playing anyone ill and dying), Timothy Spall, Andrea Riseborough, Johnny Flynn, Kate herself, Toni Collette, Fisayo Akinade and Stephen Merchant.
It feels fairly realistic but is somehow lacking in emotion, humour and insight. I've a feeling without the Winslet name attached it may never have been made.
Photographed by Alwin Kuchler and edited by Lucia Zucchetti (Their Finest, Boy A, The Queen, Ratcatcher).
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