Produced by:
POISSON ROUGE PICTURES LTD
SOLUTION FILMS LTD
Running Time: 84 Minutes
Director: Marek Losey
Producer: Christopher Granier-Deferre & John Schwab
Executive/Co-Producers: Bernadette Thomas
Starring:
Alex McQueen
Philip Campbell
Marek Losey’s debut film The Hide screens at Dinard Festival on 2nd October.
Synopsis:
On the windswept Suffolk mudflats creaks a bird-hide, inside which hovers Roy Tunt, a prematurely aged, mildly obsessive-compulsive birder. With one more sighting - the elusive sociable plover - he will have ’twitched’ the entire British List. The ambitious Tunt has his shortwave radio, packed-lunch and a portrait of his ex-wife Sandra for company.
Suddenly, in the midst of a conversation with Sandra’s portrait, the hide door blows open and a bedraggled stranger - unshaven, edgy and bloodied introduces himself as Dave John, a fugitive from the storm. After a tense introduction, the two men discover that they have a good deal in common, sharing sandwiches, tea and personal exchanges which are frank, poignant and often funny. But as the two men begin to form a close bond news of a police manhunt sets them both on edgedriving their fragile relationship to a tragic conclusion...
TV Times "****"
Channel 4 "exceeds boundaries and defies expectations"
BBC Film Network "compelling"
Empire "my pick of the festival"
Philip French in The Observer "Pinteresque"
Radio Times "ornithology has never been more dangerous"
Official Competition Syracuse
Official Selection Dinard
Official Selection Sao Paulo
Official Selection Monte Carlo
www.thehidethemovie.com/
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