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| Maria Walsh and
Rebecca Santos |
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| Maria Walsh and
Rebecca Santos |
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| Marinette and Jean-Claude
Riffaud |
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A dream holiday in Nice turns into
a nightmare when
tourists Vilma and Christine discover
the secret
of their strange apartment
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UK/France, 2006.
Pathétique Films/Limara.
Produced by David McGillivray, Hassan Alaoui
Directed by Keith Claxton
sc: David McGillivray. ph: Sam Hardy. sd
rec: Godfrey Kirby. ed: Chuck Cartmel. music: Dominic Glynn. make-up: Ian Brown. costume designer: Samantha Cousins. costume sup: Isabel Munoz. asst
dir: Gary White, Tim Higham. sd design: Steve Rogers. on-line ed: Alex Peach. camera asst: Antoine
Delelis. Ms de Jong's hair by: Fernando Hortiguela.
cast: Rebecca Santos (Vilma), Maria Walsh (Christine),
Holly de Jong (Abigail), Stefo Linard (Gendarme),
Marinette and Jean-Claude Riffaud, Isabel Munoz (People
on beach).
Colour. 13.5 mins
Shot in Nice and Menton, France, May 12-16, 2006. |
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"Marianne Stone's daughter,
Kara Noble, has two apartments with an adjoining door in Nice*.
I went there in 2002 and drove up the Riviera to Menton, which
has one of the most beautiful old towns in Europe. Thus we
had the makings of our 6th film. It was dreamed up before Hostel, but after we saw it, Keith made our script
gorier. He also added the soupçon of lesbianism, which
was fine by me. I wrote it in Marrakech, mentioned it to Habib,
and he put me in touch with his mate, Hassan Alaoui. I went
to visit him in Paris and found to my horror that, unlike
Morocco, where you can get almost anything done by slipping
someone a few dirhams, film production in France has to be
above board. I had to register Pathétique Films as
a limited company and pay the union minimums to the French
cast and crew. We were pretty much in chaos before we left
London; and when we arrived in Nice, it got worse. [Cameraman]
Sam was on another job in Portugal and arrived late. I was
forever telling Keith to hurry up and we had our first row.
Then I ran out of money and was haring about Nice trying to
get friends in London to send more cash by Western Union.
One of the extras didn't turn up, so it's the assistant director,
Tim Higham, playing one of the robed loonies. (The other one's
me). Finally Holly [de Jong] got upset and just walked off,
got on a plane and went back to London. Fortunately we'd finished
her scenes. This was my first taste of the kind of filming
everyone else has to endure. I'd had it too easy until now.
And yet everything worked out OK in the end. Hassan managed
to get permission to film everywhere, from the old cemetery
in Menton to a private beach in Nice. When we wrapped, everyone
jumped into the sea, Keith fully-clothed. I think we were
all going a bit barmy by this time.The film premiered at London’s Frightfest at the Odeon West End on 25th August, 2007, as part of a shorts programme. The response was absolutely terrible. On the Frightfest forum one correspondent opined, ‘We’re Ready For You Now was rubbish’ while another agreed ‘We’re Ready For You Now was a load of crap, completely pointless.’ We haven’t been invited back to Frightfest, which I really regret because I always enjoyed this festival.”
*www.nobleapartments.com |
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| Filming in Nice |
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