The Lady Reid of Cardowan | |
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Born | 1948 (age 75–76) |
Occupation | Film director |
Years active | 1994–present |
Known for | A female perspective on sexuality |
Notable work | Under the Skin |
Carine Adler, Baroness Reid of Cardowan (born 1948) is a Brazilian screenwriter and film director.
Adler's break came when the British Film Institute asked her to develop her short film Touch and Go into a full-length feature. [1] The result was Under the Skin, the screenplay for which took her two years to write. [2] According to Richard Armstrong in The Rough Guide to Film, "What distinguishes her small oeuvre is the fusion of her protagonists' desire and their sense of inferiority." [3]
Adler is the second wife of former British government minister Dr John Reid, Baron Reid, whom she married in 2002. [4] She has a son, Hal, from a previous marriage, and two stepsons with Reid.
The screenplay took about two years to write, I wrote about 14 drafts.