Down & Out in Cannes
- 2010
- 1h 18m
![Shot in a week by a lone woman filmmaker but based on a year's research, this funny, moving Grey Gardens/Maysles Brothers cinema verite style doc contrasts the life of Ian and Robin, two alcoholic ex pats living in a squat next to millionaire yachts with the glamour of the Cannes Film Festival. Life mirrors art as the filmmaker accidentally becomes homeless during shooting and turns the camera on herself. ///
'Robin's poignant soliloquy is one of the most powerful things I've seen on screen for years.' - Martin Medina (Organiser - BBC SHORTS Film Festival). ///
'Beautiful.' - OTHON, Musician/Virtuoso ('Digital Angel')/ Othon & Tomasini. ///
'One of the best films I have seen in years. I would put it up there with Steve McQueen's - 'Hunger' and Julian Schnabel's - 'The Diving Bell and The Butterfly' as the most powerful films I have seen in the last few years.
The great success of the film was the intense and empathetic psychological portrayal of the characters - through the film you felt and understood the guys like you actually lived there with them.
I have been emotionally absorbed by THE FILM FOR DAYS.
It's a little masterpiece and deserves a very wide screening'. - Richard Martin (LONDON ARTLIST). ///
'Gutsy, grass roots filmmaking, an emotional tour de force.' - Dave Nicholson, Actor (Award winning documentary 'The Lost World of the Crystal Skull'). ///
'If your life or that of someone you love has been touched by addiction, child abuse or homelessness you need to see this film. A moving tribute to triumph over despair.' - PHIL DIAZ (Former WHITE HOUSE DEPUTY DIRECTOR OF DRUG PREVENTION, Former Exec Director of Florida Drug Treatment Center & Co-Author of 4 Books on Addiction & Recovery).](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/M/MV5BMTY4ODgzNzYzN15BMl5BanBnXkFtZTcwMzg5NDkyMw@@._V1_QL75_UX500_CR0,47,500,281_.jpg)
Shot in a week by a lone woman filmmaker but based on a year's research, contrasts the life of Ian and Robin, two alcoholic ex pats living in a squat next to millionaire yachts with the glam... Read allShot in a week by a lone woman filmmaker but based on a year's research, contrasts the life of Ian and Robin, two alcoholic ex pats living in a squat next to millionaire yachts with the glamor of Cannes Film Festival. Life mirrors art as the filmmaker accidentally becomes homeles... Read allShot in a week by a lone woman filmmaker but based on a year's research, contrasts the life of Ian and Robin, two alcoholic ex pats living in a squat next to millionaire yachts with the glamor of Cannes Film Festival. Life mirrors art as the filmmaker accidentally becomes homeless during shooting and turns the camera on herself.