Shadows in the Sun | |
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Directed by | David Rocksavage |
Written by | David Rocksavage |
Screenplay by | Margaret Glover David Rocksavage |
Produced by | Nick O'Hagan |
Starring |
Jean Simmons James Wilby Ophelia Lovibond Jamie Dornan |
Music by | Richard Chester |
Release date |
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Running time | 81 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Shadows in the Sun is a 2009 British independent film directed by David Rocksavage and starring James Wilby, Jean Simmons, Jamie Dornan and Ophelia Lovibond. [1]
A mysterious stranger brings together a family that has lost its way.
Hannah (Jean Simmons) is suffering from a chronic illness, smoking cannabis for respite, and has formed an unlikely friendship with a much younger man, Joe ( Jamie Dornan). [2] She lives perfectly happily with her poetry, garden and friend Joe but when Hannah's son Robert (James Wilby) arrives with his teenage daughter Kate ( Ophelia Lovibond) and younger son, Sam ( Toby Marlow), he is discomfited by his mother's arrangements. [3]
Set in the coastal region of north Norfolk the film saw the return of Jean Simmons to the screen after a decade away. [4] [5] It was her last film. The film is set in the 1960s and made use of locations at Walsingham, Holkham and Brancaster. [6]
Poetry extracts heard in the film include The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam from a translation by Edward FitzGerald, The Character of a Happy Life by Henry Wotton, W. B. Yeats, When You Are Old, and Variations by Conrad Aiken.
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