Exclusive: Swipe Films has boarded Mike Figgis’ erotic thriller, Suspension of Disbelief, as UK theatrical distributor.
The film stars Sebastian Koch (The Lives of Others), Lotte Verbeek (The Borgias), Emilia Fox, Julian Sands, Kenneth Cranham and Frances De la Tour.
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Suspension of Disbelief
The feature will have its UK premiere at London’s East End Film Festival on July 6. Swipe will release it in cinemas in the UK and Ireland on July 19. To promote the film, Figgis will conduct a series of Q&As across the country
Blurring lines between fiction and reality, the story is about a literature professor who becomes implicated in the murder of a mysterious young French woman.
The film had its world premiere at the Rome Film Festival.
Content Media is the international sales agent on the film. Producers are Vito di Rosa of Sosho and Mike Figgis of Red Mullet. The film was...
The film stars Sebastian Koch (The Lives of Others), Lotte Verbeek (The Borgias), Emilia Fox, Julian Sands, Kenneth Cranham and Frances De la Tour.
For production details visit
Suspension of Disbelief
The feature will have its UK premiere at London’s East End Film Festival on July 6. Swipe will release it in cinemas in the UK and Ireland on July 19. To promote the film, Figgis will conduct a series of Q&As across the country
Blurring lines between fiction and reality, the story is about a literature professor who becomes implicated in the murder of a mysterious young French woman.
The film had its world premiere at the Rome Film Festival.
Content Media is the international sales agent on the film. Producers are Vito di Rosa of Sosho and Mike Figgis of Red Mullet. The film was...
- 6/28/2013
- by michael.rosser@screendaily.com (Michael Rosser)
- ScreenDaily
Opera novice Mike Figgis is taking charge of Lucrezia Borgia at the Eno. Trouser parts and Renaissance porn were part of a steep learning curve
Mike Figgis is about to make his debut as an opera director at English National Opera. But his production of Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia is hardly the fulfilment of a dream for the 62-year-old Oscar-nominated director. "I was never an opera-goer growing up. I was a jazz musician. I'd go and see Miles Davis. It would never cross my mind to go to the opera. My only preconceptions about opera were based on clips I had seen, to be honest." He smiles sheepishly beneath his mop of hair. "I only went to my first opera three or four years ago, when my girlfriend took me to the Met in New York."
Figgis is the latest in a long line of Eno's recruits from the worlds...
Mike Figgis is about to make his debut as an opera director at English National Opera. But his production of Donizetti's Lucrezia Borgia is hardly the fulfilment of a dream for the 62-year-old Oscar-nominated director. "I was never an opera-goer growing up. I was a jazz musician. I'd go and see Miles Davis. It would never cross my mind to go to the opera. My only preconceptions about opera were based on clips I had seen, to be honest." He smiles sheepishly beneath his mop of hair. "I only went to my first opera three or four years ago, when my girlfriend took me to the Met in New York."
Figgis is the latest in a long line of Eno's recruits from the worlds...
- 1/21/2011
- by Tom Service
- The Guardian - Film News
Mike Figgis’ (Internal Affairs, Leaving Las Vegas, Timecode) latest film was commissioned by Gumball 3000, the burgeoning ‘lifestyle and entertainment company’ behind the Gumball Rally. But don’t worry because as you’d expect from a 21st century Figgis work, this isn’t by any stretch a grooming promotional piece. Rather, it continues the director’s fascination with digital cinema (from 2000’s Timecode onwards) and the diverse possibilities the technology throws up; an exploratory film built around the Gumball event.
A trans-European, 3000 mile road trip for a bootful of assorted trustifarians and moneyed celebrities, The Gumball Rally has garnered its fair share of press coverage since its inception in 1999. When approached by Gumball 3000, Figgis has admitted being less than ecstatic at the prospect of a straight documentary on the rally. But when a second offer came in to simply make a film that in some way involved the rally, he decided...
A trans-European, 3000 mile road trip for a bootful of assorted trustifarians and moneyed celebrities, The Gumball Rally has garnered its fair share of press coverage since its inception in 1999. When approached by Gumball 3000, Figgis has admitted being less than ecstatic at the prospect of a straight documentary on the rally. But when a second offer came in to simply make a film that in some way involved the rally, he decided...
- 10/20/2008
- by James Dennis
- Screen Anarchy
London -- Oliver Stone's "W." and Rian Johnson's "The Brothers Bloom" will both premiere in gala slots during next month's 52nd edition of the BFI London Film Festival, organizers said Wednesday.
Just a short clip of Stone's much anticipated "fair, true portrait" of outgoing President George W. Bush had a packed theater auditorium for the press launch braying for more.
Other gala highlights include Marc Forster's outing as a Bond director with "Quantum Of Solace" and Stephan Elliot's period romp "Easy Virtue," based on Noel Coward's 1920s social comedy.
Artistic director Sandra Hebron said that despite all the negative press and downbeat reaction coming out of the recently wrapped Venice Film Festival, cinema was in rude health and her event had plenty of quality to choose from for its lineup.
Hebron said this year's event had an "unprecedented" number of premieres and that London benefited...
Just a short clip of Stone's much anticipated "fair, true portrait" of outgoing President George W. Bush had a packed theater auditorium for the press launch braying for more.
Other gala highlights include Marc Forster's outing as a Bond director with "Quantum Of Solace" and Stephan Elliot's period romp "Easy Virtue," based on Noel Coward's 1920s social comedy.
Artistic director Sandra Hebron said that despite all the negative press and downbeat reaction coming out of the recently wrapped Venice Film Festival, cinema was in rude health and her event had plenty of quality to choose from for its lineup.
Hebron said this year's event had an "unprecedented" number of premieres and that London benefited...
- 9/10/2008
- by By Stuart Kemp
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Paris -- The 19th Dinard Festival of British Film will open with the 1999 movie "My Life So Far," as part of a tribute to director Hugh Hudson.
Hudson is due in the Brittany beach resort to introduce a retrospective of his films including the multiple Oscar-winning Olympic tale "Chariots of Fire" and the Tarzan adaptation "Greystoke." There also will be a retrospective on the films based on Daphne Du Maurier's work, including Alfred Hitchcock's "Rebecca" and "The Birds" and Nicolas Roeg's "Don't Look Now."
Six independent British films will compete for Dinard's Golden Hitchcock Trophy. The Anglo-French jury this year is presided over by Gallic actor Lambert Wilson.
Other French premiere screenings scheduled include "The Duchess," directed by Saul Dibb and starring Keira Knightley and Ralph Fiennes; Steve McQueen's hard-hitting Bobby Sands prison drama, "Hunger"; and Terence Davies' poetic ode to Liverpool, "Of Time and the City.
Hudson is due in the Brittany beach resort to introduce a retrospective of his films including the multiple Oscar-winning Olympic tale "Chariots of Fire" and the Tarzan adaptation "Greystoke." There also will be a retrospective on the films based on Daphne Du Maurier's work, including Alfred Hitchcock's "Rebecca" and "The Birds" and Nicolas Roeg's "Don't Look Now."
Six independent British films will compete for Dinard's Golden Hitchcock Trophy. The Anglo-French jury this year is presided over by Gallic actor Lambert Wilson.
Other French premiere screenings scheduled include "The Duchess," directed by Saul Dibb and starring Keira Knightley and Ralph Fiennes; Steve McQueen's hard-hitting Bobby Sands prison drama, "Hunger"; and Terence Davies' poetic ode to Liverpool, "Of Time and the City.
- 9/8/2008
- by By Charles Masters
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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