- For the 1987 film by Stuart Gordon, see Dolls (1987 film). Stuart Gordon (born August 11, 1947) in Chicago Illinois) is a director, writer and producer of Films and Dolls is a film directed by horror director Stuart Gordon and released in 1987 after Gordon's success with Re-Animator.
- For the 2002 film by Takeshi Kitano, see Dolls (film). is a Japanese Filmmaker, Comedian, Actor, Film editor, Presenter, Screenwriter, Author, Poet is a 2002 Japanese film written edited and directed by Japanese director Takeshi Kitano.
Dolls is a British short film written and directed by Susan Luciani, narrated by Charles Dance and starring Joanna Lumley and Denis Lawson. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom, the UK or Britain,is a Sovereign state located Charles Dance, OBE (born Walter Charles Dance; October 10 1946) is an English Actor, Screenwriter and director For the sixteenth century translator see Jane Lumley. Joanna Lamond Lumley, OBE (born 1 May 1946) is an English Denis Stamper Lawson (born 27 September 1947 is a Scottish Actor. Broadcast on BBC and Sky TV, the film was officially selected to play in International film festivals in Los Angeles, Spain, San Francisco, Italy, Paris, Cyprus, Africa, and Japan. British Sky Broadcasting ( BSkyB — Sky Television and BSB) is a company that operates Sky Digital, a subscription television service in the It was also shown at Roguerunner Screenings and at Cannes Film Festival 2006 and selected to feature as part of the British Society of Cinematographers' New Film Maker Night at Pinewood Studios. The Cannes Film Festival (le Festival de Cannes founded in 1946 is one of the world's oldest most influential and prestigious Film festivals alongside Venice, The British Society of Cinematographers or BSC was formed in 1949 by Bert Easey the then head of the Denham and Pinewood studio camera departments Pinewood Studios is a major British Film studio situated in Iver Heath, Buckinghamshire.
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Plot
Inspired by a story that appeared in a 1950s newspaper, this short film plays out a year in the life of a young girl, Mouche. Deemed too skinny to make a living at the Moulin Rouge, Mouche is cast out and saved from suicide by a group of puppets traveling from town to town performing street puppet shows for a few paltry francs.
She joins them on their journey and together they become quite an attraction earning more money than they have ever made. In turn, the puppets become Mouche’s beloved family, yet behind them lurks a cruel and abusive man who is desperately in love with her, “It would have all been so perfect if not for the puppeteer. ” Mouche must make a decision, to stay for the love of the puppets or go to escape the terrible wrath of the puppeteer.
Cast
- Charles Dance - Narrator
- Esme Bianco - Mouche
- Matt Nation - The Pupeeteer
- Anthony Taylor - Golo
- Denis Lawson - Monsieur Nicholas
- Joanna Lumley - Madame Muscat
(and others)
Crew
- Susan Luciani - Writer/director
- Lindsay Mcfarlane - Producer
- Rick Mietkowski - Director of photography
- Ben Foster - Music composer
- Mark Maclaine - Sound engineer/ADR recordist
- Jordana Finkel - Art director
(and others)
Reviews
- "I thought Dolls was just extraordinary. Charles Dance, OBE (born Walter Charles Dance; October 10 1946) is an English Actor, Screenwriter and director Esmé Bianco (born on 25 May 1982 in St Albans Hertfordshire) English model actress and burlesque/cabaret performer Denis Stamper Lawson (born 27 September 1947 is a Scottish Actor. For the sixteenth century translator see Jane Lumley. Joanna Lamond Lumley, OBE (born 1 May 1946) is an English Mark Maclaine (aka The Silence) is a film producer music producer and writer One of the keys of making short films, you want to create your own universe, have your own voice and this film has a spectacularly different significant, coloured voice. I’ve not seen a short film like it before. ” - Jeremy Howe, Head of Short Films, BBC
- "Extraordinary in its inventiveness and economy of light. The lighting evokes the mood perfectly. " - Alex Thomson, BSC
- "This film is captivating” - Zimbabwe International Film Festival
- "Susan Luciani is an inventive and imaginative writer, very cinematic. See also Great Zimbabwe National Monument. For information about the March and June 2008 presidential elections see Zimbabwean presidential election Dolls is undeniably a vibrant and original short. " - Film Four
Trivia
- Too Cold to Snow by British band Second Person (from their Chromatography album) is the main credits music for this film. Film4 is a free digital Television channel in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland, owned and operated by Channel 4, that screens Second Person are a British band that mixes influences from Trip hop, Jazz, Hip hop and Electronica to form Post Trip Hop Chromatography is a 2004 Post Trip Hop Album by Second Person.
- Dolls is shot entirely on steadicam as if it is one continuous shot. This method of shooting allows the audience to engage with the film without distractions of edit cuts.