Shell
Seitdem ihre Mutter sie im Alter von vier Jahren verlassen hat lebt
die siebzehnjährige Shell allein mit ihrem Vater Pete in den schottischen Highlands. Die Tankstelle, auf der die heranwachsende
junge Frau tagein, tagaus arbeitet, ist nicht nur einfach Arbeitsstätte, sondern Mittelpunkt ihres Lebens. Die Abgeschiedenheit,
das Fehlen regelmäßiger sozialer Kontakte und der leere Platz, den die Mutter und Ehefrau hinterlassen hat, ließen im Laufe
der Zeit eine innige und zugleich sehr verstörende Beziehung zwischen Tochter und Vater entstehen. Auf der Suche nach ihrem
Platz in der Welt begleiten wir Shell in Scott Grahams atmosphärischem Spielfilmdebüt in eine ungewisse Zukunft.
Shell is a 17-year-old girl who lives and works at a petrol station in the desolate Scottish Highlands. Apart from the occasional
customers who call by for fuel and a few regulars who acknowledge and catch up with her, Shell's only company is her reserved
and softspoken father Pete to whom she is devoted. A young girl trying to find her place in the world, she is on the cusp
of womanhood, struggling to re-imagine her role within her own family and life in general. Pete, meanwhile, is damaged goods.
He still keenly feels the absence of his wife who ran away when Shell was four, while his connection with his daughter is
both difficult and disturbing.
Director's Biography
SCOTT GRAHAM, born in Scotland. He made his first short BORN
TU RUN in 2005. His second short, SHELL, won the UK Film Council Award for Best Film at the London Short Film Festival in
2008, and his third, NATIVE SON, was produced by Film Four under their Cinema Extreme banner and premiered in Critics' Week
at Cannes in 2010. Graham was chosen as one of Screen International's ‘UK Stars of Tomorrow’ in 2011. His first feature, SHELL,
is based on his 2008 short and was screened at the Torino Film Festival in 2012 where it was awarded with the Best Film Award,
among others.
Competition Fiction 2013
Scott Graham
Großbritannien 2012
color
90
Minuten
OF
Drehbuch
Scott Graham
Kamera
Yoliswa Gärtig
Schnitt Rachel
Tunnard
Mit
Chloe Pirrie, Michael Smiley, Joseph Mawle, Iain de Caestecker, Paul Hickey, Kate Dickie
Produktion
Brocken Spectre 6th Floor, 41 St Vincent Place Glasgow G1
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