Recherche détaillée
- TITRES
- NOMS
- COLLABORATIONS
1-26 sur 26
- Reality Is Not Enough reveals the inner and outer lives of Irvine Welsh, one of the most original and controversial writers of our times. For four decades across novels, screenplays and an outspoken presence in media, the Trainspotting author has both celebrated and defined contemporary society and culture, whilst simultaneously exposing its flaws. In this intimate and personal documentary we meet Welsh at a crossroads, acutely aware of his mortality and accepting that his hedonistic days are drawing to a close. On a book tour in Canada, Welsh chooses to explore the boundaries of consciousness by taking DMT at a Toronto drug therapy center. The resulting hallucinogenic trip, illustrated within a kaleidoscopic imagined memory space, is interspersed with candid observational footage, cinematic archive, and novel excerpts to create a captivating piece of autobiographical cinema. Reality Is Not Enough is an illuminating documentary offering a rare glimpse into the mind of a prolific artist at work and play. By exploring the books, films and shows cherished by readers and audiences across the world, it weaves a rich tapestry out of both contemporary and archive footage, conversations, music, novel readings, personal reminiscence, and his own wickedly funny musings on life. The film explores profound questions about what it means to be an artist drawing inspiration from the darkness within oneself, and how possible it is to leave that life on the page. Interspersed throughout the film are excerpts from Welsh's novels that speak to the major themes in the documentary. Readings by actors and artists including Liam Neeson, Ruth Negga, Stephen Graham, Maxine Peake, Nick Cave and Helen Behan, from books including Trainspotting, Filth, Glue, The Acid House, Porno and Skagboys examine mortality, place & belonging, hedonism, class, politics, creativity, love and family.
- A recently single dad can't stop his baby from crying in order to pray. Having lost confidence in his ability to raise his daughter alone, he impulsively begins the long car journey north to drop her off with his mother. What is Abid's relationship with his faith now that the person he converted (reverted) for has left, and can he reconceptualise his role as a single father, or will old habits resurface and continue to fracture his sense of self? This is a character who has lost his sense of identity, he has reinvented himself so many times he no longer knows who he is any more - the hedonist, the addict, the addict in recovery, the convert, the revert, and suddenly both mum and dad all in one... What is left of yourself when you change yourself and revolve so much around someone or something else? Then when you lose that centre of gravity, that person or thing that kept you in orbit, how do you begin to recalibrate and find your sense of self again? This is the story of a character who sets out to run away, yet again, by dropping his daughter off with his mother. His recuperation is hard as old traumas resurface, the origins of which we are fed in sonic scraps and intrusive flashes, but something shifts en route, and at a remote ferry terminal on the northernmost tip of the country, he finally begins to reconcile the past with the present. During that physical journey north, a series of small cumulative domestic moments occur, a chain reaction is set in motion, and he begins to understand the bigger picture, of what matters to him, so that by the end he is rooted in the present and able to connect to his daughter. Ultimately, he realises he has been trying to control something he is powerless over, and by admitting his own powerlessness, he can finally begin to let go.
- World-renowned survivalist Bear Grylls (Get Out Alive with Bear Grylls (2013), Seul face à la nature (2006)) meets actor Ben Stiller (La Vie rêvée de Walter Mitty (2013)) on the rugged mountains of the Isle of Skye in Northern Scotland, to go on a once in a lifetime adventure. As they explore their surroundings, Bear tests Ben's limits in an effort to see how he measures up to the unpredictable and unforgiving challenges of Mother Nature.
