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DN EP 085: Hotel Harabati – Brice Cauvin

By MarBelle ⋅ April 25, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] After many years working in the French film industry as an assistant director on over 35 features, Brice Cauvin decided that it was time for him to step out and direct his feature debut Hotel Harabati, which despite (or perhaps due to) problems with financing he managed to [...]

Hotel Harabati – Brice Cauvin

By MarBelle ⋅ April 23, 2008 ⋅ One comment

Hotel Harabati (2006) While waiting to catch a train from Paris to Venice, French couple Philippe and Marion pick up a bag left behind by a polite, vaguely Middle Eastern man. Inside, they find neatly bound bundles of foreign currency; on the tag, it reads ‘Hotel Harabati.’ At the last moment, they decide not to [...]

Hotel Harabati Competition

By MarBelle ⋅ April 20, 2008 ⋅ One comment

A few days ago it was my pleasure to interview French director Brice Cauvin about his feature debut, the excellent Hotel Harabati, which you may recall appeared in both Miss D’s and my top ten lists of 2007. I’ll be posting clips from the film and our interview in a few days, but right now [...]

DN EP 078: Garage – Lenny Abrahamson

By MarBelle ⋅ March 6, 2008 ⋅ One comment

[Audio clip: view full post to listen] Following an almost interview at last year’s London Film Festival I finally got a chance to see Lenny Abrahamson’s second feature Garage which was the most successful film of 2007 in its native Ireland and critically well received throughout its festival run, picking up prizes along the way. [...]

Garage – Lenny Abrahamson

By MarBelle ⋅ March 5, 2008 ⋅ Post a comment

Garage (2007) Regarded by his neighbours as a harmless misfit, Josie has spent all his adult life as the caretaker of a crumbling petrol station on the outskirts of a small town in the mid-west of Ireland. He is limited, lonely, yet relentlessly optimistic and, in his own peculiar way, happy. Garage is the story [...]