The Great Ecstasy of Robert Carmichael (2005)

Réalisateur:

Thomas Clay

Writers:

Thomas Clay (writer)
Joseph Lang (writer)

Release Date:

26 avril 2006 (France)

Genre:

Drame | Horror

Plot:

Plot Keywords:

Social Class | Community Decline | Graphic Rape | Violence | Teenager

Avis des utilisateurs:

Young people with no respect

Ensemble

Nikki Albon	...	Newsreader
Zoey Campbell	...	Charlotte
Anne Devlin	...	Rose Franklin
Rob Dixon	...	John Kramer
Danny Dyer	...	Larry Haydn
Sam Gurney	...	Toby
Michael Howe	...	Jonathan Abbott
Ami Instone	...	Marie
Stuart Laing	...	Stuart Reeves
Mick Larkin	...	Roy Kingsley
Lesley Manville	...	Sarah Carmichael (as Leslie Manville)
Charles Mnene	...	Ben
Muriaf Salman	...	Ussef Abel
Donna Shilling	...	Alice
Daniel Spencer	...	Robert Carmichael
Hilary Tones	...	Ruth
Emma Vance	...	Marie's Friend
Miranda Wilson	...	Monica Abbott
Ryan Winsley	...	Joe

Réalisé par
Thomas Clay

Scénaristes (in alphabetical order)
Thomas Clay		writer
Joseph Lang		writer

Produit par
Peter Allez	....	executive producer
Joseph Lang	....	producer
Corinna McFarlane	....	assistant producer
Daniel Nixon	....	associate producer

Musique originale
Jonathan Henry Harvey
Amy Purcell

Image
Giorgos Arvanitis

Montage
David Wigram

Distribution des rôles
Donna Shilling

Création des décors
Attila Raczkevy		(as Attila Ráczkevy-Eötvös)

Direction artistique
Emma Saunders

Maquillage
Alison Grant	....	key hair stylist
Alison Grant	....	key makeup artist

Directeur de production
Nicky Moss	....	production manager

Assistant réalisateur
Robert Cannan	....	second assistant director
Simon Rooke	....	first assistant director
Donna Shilling	....	third assistant director

Art Department
Alex Raine	....	assistant art director

Technicien du son
Thomas Clay	....	sound designer
Thomas Clay	....	supervising sound editor
Andrew Halley	....	sound mixer
Dean Humphreys	....	sound re-recording mixer
Gavin Marshall	....	boom operator
Mark Sheffield	....	foley recordist
Mark Sheffield	....	sound re-recording mixer

Camera and Electrical Department
Steve Annis	....	assistant camera
Steve Annis	....	focus puller
Haydn Boniface	....	gaffer
Cherry Carmen	....	clapper loader
Alex Crowe	....	assistant grip
Neil Heuston	....	grip

Casting Department
Jo Gross	....	casting assistant

Divers
Helen Andre	....	script supervisor
Mafalda Alves Luis	....	location manager

Production Companies

• Boudu Films
• Pull Back Camera Ltd.

Distributors

• 2-1-0 Films (2003) (Greece) (all media)
• Pretty Pictures (2006) (France) (theatrical)
• Tartan Films (2006) (UK) (theatrical)
• Transeuropa Video Entertainment (TVE) (2008) (Argentina) (DVD)

Durée:

Argentina:96 min | UK:96 min

Pays:

UK

Langue:

Anglais

Couleur:

Couleur

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Son:

Dolby Digital

Classification:

Ireland:18 | France:-16 | Switzerland:16 (canton of Vaud) | Switzerland:16 (canton of Geneva) | UK:18 | Argentina:18

Company:

Boudu Films

Young people with no respect

Thomas Clay has been mixing with the wrong types. That's the trouble with young people these days, they have no respect.

Seriously this film should be avoided at all costs. The action in the main body of the film is slow and rather stodgy and ambles to the drug crazed ending as if, like it's director, it has no where better to go. We are introduced to the main title character who is a bit of an outsider, we see him at school and at home not quite fitting in, feeling awkward in himself as so many adolescents do. Robert falls in with bad lads and starts missing school and taking drugs and before you know it he is a psycho rapist.

The film is really about Clay's total failure to understand the links between violence imagery and violent acts. Clay seems to think a generation of crazed youth are made evil by scenes of war on our TVs. yet he has filmed the most disgusting piece of SIMULATED violence. Is this guy for real?

If Clay has not seen YouTube perhaps he is naive and unaware of will be done with the brutal climax scene from his film? All anyone will want to see is the most hideous scene from the end of the film and I am sure that will be what sticks with people.

The rest of the film is pointless for in committing such an act of violence to film Clay not only damns young people who are actively engaged in preventing war, he also damns himself as perpetrator of extreme, tasteless violence for no better reason than his own personal celebrity status.

Shame on all involved.