Rage (2009/I)

Director:

Sally Potter

Writer:

Sally Potter (written by)

Genre:

Drama

Plot:

A young blogger at a New York fashion house shoots behind-the-scenes interviews on his cell-phone. |

Plot Keywords:

Blogger | Fashion | Title Directed By Female | Photographer | One Word Title

Awards:

1 nomination

Cast

Simon Abkarian	...	Merlin
Patrick J. Adams	...	Dwight Angel
Riz Ahmed	...	Vijay
Bob Balaban	...	Mr. White
Adriana Barraza	...	Anita de Los Angeles
Steve Buscemi	...	Frank
Jakob Cedergren	...	Otto
Lily Cole	...	Lettuce Leaf
Judi Dench	...	Mona Carvell
Eddie Izzard	...	Tiny Diamonds
Jude Law	...	Minx
John Leguizamo	...	Jed
David Oyelowo	...	Homer
Dianne Wiest	...	Miss Roth

Directed by
Sally Potter

Writing credits (in alphabetical order)
Sally Potter		written by

Produced by
Andrew Fierberg	....	producer
Bob Hiestand	....	executive producer
Michael Manzi	....	line producer
Jenny Schweitzer	....	line producer
Christopher Sheppard	....	producer
Christina Weiss Lurie	....	executive producer

Original Music by
Fred Frith
Sally Potter

Cinematography by
Steven Fierberg

Film Editing by
Daniel Goddard

Casting by
Irene Lamb
Heidi Levitt

Costume Design by
Marina Draghici

Makeup Department
Leo Won	....	department head makeup: new york

Production Management
Angela C. Lee	....	production manager

Sound Department
James Corless	....	sound mix technician
Tom Deane	....	adr mixer
Daniel Goddard	....	sound editor
Jean-Paul Mugel	....	sound
Ruth Sullivan	....	foley artist
Vincent Tulli	....	sound mixer
Keith Partridge	....	foley engineer (uncredited)

Camera and Electrical Department
Jimmy Barnett	....	digital imaging technician (as James Barnett)
Sally Potter	....	camera operator

Casting Department
Urvashi Chugani	....	casting associate
Lauren Fernandes	....	casting associate

Costume and Wardrobe Department
Sophie Canale	....	costume trainee
Hiromi Sano	....	costume assistant: UK unit
David Harry Yoon	....	costume assistant (as David Yoon)

Editorial Department
Serge Anthony	....	colorist
Jimmy Barnett	....	assistant editor (as James Barnett)

Other crew
Doug Lenox	....	production assistant
David Mandel	....	production coordinator
George Mitchell	....	production assistant: London
James Morrison	....	key production assistant
Henry Prince	....	assistant: Andrew Fierberg
George Mitchell	....	production assistant (uncredited)

Production Companies

• Adventure Pictures
• Vox3 Films

Distributors

• Cinetic Rights Management (2009) (worldwide) (all media)
• Liberation Entertainment (2009) (USA) (DVD)

Other Companies

• Digimage  video to 35 mm transfer
• Dolby Laboratories  sound mix
• Panalux  grip and lighting equipment

Also Known As:

Runtime:

98 min | Germany:99 min (Berlin International Film Festival)

Country:

UK | USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.85 : 1

Certification:

Ireland:12A

Company:

Adventure Pictures

Trivia:

For her role as Mona, Judi Dench had to learn how to roll and smoke a spliff (joint with marijuana and tobacco).

Quotes:

Mona Carvell:Fashion is not an art form. If it's anything at all, it's pornography, to which millions are addicted. Hopelessly addicted.

I liked it.

I greatly enjoyed this film and have no idea why all of the IMDb reviewers seemed so bitterly scorned by this production. I found so much of this movie to be funny, sad, or at least entertaining. I thought the writing felt honest and sharp, and i found the acting to be superb, because IT FELT LIKE I WAS WATCHING REAL HUMAN BEINGS. Everyone else who commented seemed to have a problem with the performances but i thought they felt authentic. I think we could probably all agree that some people working in the fashion industry might on occasion behave in a way that is a little over dramatic. So when the characters in this film are portrayed behaving in an overly dramatic way, as many of them are, it makes complete sense to me. I thought this was a really unique (I'm saying this because I haven't seen any other movie shot with only actors sitting infront of blue screens) way to tell a story and I was really glad I picked it up. A fellow reviewer complained that Rage was plot-less, but it felt as ambiguous as something a teenager might put together but still had cohesive elements strong enough to leave you, or at least me, with a sense of what transpired off camera, which I believe was the aim of the director. I mean, so it is rather beyond the scope of possibility that some teenage black kid got to interview all of these people, repeatedly, and did so while they were not trying to be interviewed. But I think the statement that, "Rage shows how ugly and downright wrong it is to allow the production, fiancé and distribution of 'anything goes' cinema," is a horrible and self indulgent criticism of a artistic work you didn't like. There are a lot of things down right wrong in this world; creative expression typically isn't one of them. And also that isn't how you spell finance.