Guinevere (film)

The girl and the photographer ( Guinevere ) is an American film drama from the year 1999. Directed by Audrey Wells, who also wrote the screenplay.

Action

The 21 -year-old Harper Sloane comes from an influential family in San Francisco. Is accepted at Harvard University as a student. Sloane learns on her sister's wedding to 50 -year-old photographer Connie Fitzpatrick know that it is responsive to the pet name Guinevere. She visits him in his home and takes him into a relationship. Fitzpatrick gives her lessons in photographic art.

Harper's mother Deborah learns of the relationship and harassed the couple. Harper finds out that Fitzpatrick had numerous affairs with other women. She leaves him after one year.

When the sick Fitzpatrick is dying, he is by his former friends - including Sloane - visited. Harper stays with him until his death.

Reviews

James Berardinelli wrote on ReelViews, 1999 belonged to the actress Sarah Polley and praised greatly her portrayal in this film. The film was " elegantly written " and " often sensitive ". He was good, but not perfect and offer nothing surprising or unexpected.

Roger Ebert wrote in the Chicago Sun - Times 4 October 1999, the director avoid it, to judge the relationship of people in different age. Sarah Polley show in their role, the depth of feelings without seeming cheap. The film is not perfect, but have a "heart in the right place ".

Awards

Audrey Wells won during the Sundance Film Festival of 1999, the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award and was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize. She won the 1999 Special Jury Prize of the Deauville Film Festival and was nominated for another award this festival. Wells and Jean Smart 2000 were nominated for the Independent Spirit Award.

Audrey Wells was established in 1999 for the Golden St. George of Moscow International Film Festival nominated. Sarah Polley 2000 was nominated for the Chlotrudis Award. The film was nominated in 2000 for the price of the Artios Casting Society of America.

Background

The film was shot in Los Angeles and San Francisco. Its production costs amounted to an estimated 2.6 million U.S. dollars. The film had its world premiere in January 1999 at the Sundance Film Festival; September 17, 1999 he was presented at the Toronto International Film Festival. The screenings in selected cinemas in the United States began on 24 September 1999; there played the film is a about 614 thousand U.S. dollars.

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