While “The Master” and “Cloud Atlas” stormed Tiff this festival year with their sweeping performances and expansive themes (one film a little more successfully than the other, by most accounts...), it was inevitable that many other films, even from world-renowned directors, were going to fall under the radar. One such film is probably the latest from British helmer Michael Winterbottom – last seen adding to his ultra-prolific output with the drama “Trishna” – with his latest, the long-in-the-offing, “Everyday.” Filmed over the course of five years, with the casting of four real-life siblings (Shaun, Katrina, Stephanie, and Robert Kirk), Winterbottom has instead of simply letting a “7-Up” style documentary approach guide the narrative, used the elapsed time to provide detail and contrast to a plot that follows Karen (Shirley Henderson) dealing with her relationship with her jailed husband Ian (John Simm), in...
- 9/11/2012
- by Charlie Schmidlin
- The Playlist
The ultra prolific British helmer Michael Winterbottom has now made twenty films since his debut, “Butterfly Kiss,” in 1995. His eclectic creative appetites and peripatetic energy has seen the restless director take on a disparate array of projects from moody sci-fi ("Code 46"), pulpy noir ("The Killer Inside Me"), a post-modern music-scene saga ("24 Hour Party People") a western ("The Claim") and many, many more genres including documentaries as well. So for his latest trick, it’s perhaps no surprise that Winterbottom has taken on another interesting experiment -- this time a sprawling family drama set over five Christmases in rural Scotland. Commissioned by the BBC’s Channel 4 and shot in two week periods over five years, "Everyday" employs four real-life siblings (Shaun, Katrina, Stephanie, and Robert Kirk) to play the sons of Karen (Shirley Henderson) and Ian (John Simm), her Mia husband, and chronicles...
- 9/3/2012
- by Rodrigo Perez
- The Playlist
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